Sentence examples for be afflicted to from inspiring English sources

Every year, approximately 7 percent of us will be afflicted to some degree by the awful mental state that William Styron described as a "gray drizzle of horror... a storm of murk".

Listening to them, the question that appears in one's mind is, do we have to be afflicted to be enlightened?" Those who believe in the personhood of the embryo, and those who don't but who oppose creating an embryo for research, do not, of course, subscribe to Hoffman's view of enlightenment.

In the event of the outbreak of brown spot disease of rice, serious yield damage could be afflicted to the crop growing on Zn-deficient soils.

All countries, of course, are afflicted to some degree with internal organized crime.

Still, if females are afflicted to a higher extent than males with diseases that are treated with prescription drugs, morbidity may still explain the gender difference in drug prescription.

Hawaiians have been reported to have relatively high rates of diabetes, renal and vascular disease, and tend to be afflicted at a younger age.

Only 5% of the population are reckoned to be afflicted at any one time, but in movies the proportion seems higher.

In 1909, John was discovered to be afflicted by epilepsy and was also believed to have some form of intellectual disability, possibly autism.

Both confess they tend to be afflicted by doubt and find it emotionally difficult to get films made.

Bruce was the first person I knew to be afflicted by this plague and he soon succumbed to a tragic and untimely death.

Residents who continue to be afflicted by uninvited aromas (oil-based primer, anyone?) are entitled to ask the landlord or co-op board to remediate.