Sentence examples for because they were afflicted from inspiring English sources

The annals of wrongful conviction cases are sadly full of instances where prosecutors, whether for political reasons or because they were afflicted by some sort of complicated psychological denial, have refused to concede, or even fought back with vitriol, when faced with overwhelming evidence of innocence.

To assume that the afflicted will be touchy kill-joys, just because they're afflicted, might be considered insulting.

The pain attacks occurred predominantly at the time they felt fatigued and at the time they were afflicted by a cold with or without fever.

Ultimately, the resource curse is less something they are afflicted with than something they have inflicted on themselves.

"Because of patients' increasing reliability on medical websites and web-based forums to diagnose themselves or attempt to confirm what they think they are afflicted with, curable conditions may be missed and treatments delayed," Ramin explained.

The lowest acceptance rate, 87.4 percent, involved plaintiffs who stood to get only a few thousand dollars because they were not afflicted with a qualifying illness under the settlement yet feared falling ill in the future.

Partial loss-of-function alleles of dlp and dally were used in ethanol behavioral assays because they were less afflicted with the developmental defects and lethality caused by strong loss-of-function alleles.

And because so many students were afflicted with similar symptoms, it was also considered to be mass psychogenic illness, which is another way of saying mass hysteria.

In a speech in 1976, he claimed that big cities were afflicted by crime because they were "swarming with welfare," and actual "jobs wouldn't pay them" — recipients — "what sitting on their butts does".

These persons wanted their gene status to be determined, because either their children or close relatives were afflicted by CF. The group included 17 couples and 12 individuals that wanted to be tested in the context of planned parenthood.

Redknapp's men were afflicted by bad luck, but they also exasperated themselves.