Sentence examples for area afflicted from inspiring English sources

A children's cancer cluster — by 2000 there were 19 children in the area afflicted by a rare soft-tissue cancer — rings the lab like a necklace.

The Nuba region is only part of a huge area afflicted by a war that has pitted successive Muslim governments against animist and Christian rebels in the south since 1983.

If you must fly through an area afflicted by inclement weather, research alternate flights beforehand, Spagnola advised.

The creation of jobs in areas afflicted by unemployment is certainly a complementary measure.

In recent years, tens of millions of Africans have fled areas afflicted with famine, drought, persecution, and violence.

Salemi has also travelled to several areas afflicted by drought in both central and northern Iran, including Lake Urmia.

But in areas afflicted by war and poverty, they can be exceptionally vulnerable to exploitation and bad luck.

And if it is losing much of its influence in the working-class neighbourhoods of big cities (as preliminary data suggests), it is making it up with an influx of votes from areas afflicted by the refugee crisis.

The organisation he set up has grown into the global, Fifa-supported streetfootballworld alliance, which is active not only in areas afflicted by war but also relatively peaceful, but impoverished places.

After that trip, Nott took long periods of unpaid leave from his jobs at various London hospitals to volunteer for humanitarian-aid agencies in other areas afflicted by war and natural disaster.

The organisation, which is funded by donors including the Dutch lottery, works with wildlife charities already active in areas afflicted by poaching and smuggling to gather evidence on the gangs.