Sentence examples for biggest scourges from inspiring English sources

One of the biggest scourges in Central America are the maras, the dangerous and well organised gangs that plague the region and, increasingly, America too.

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the biggest scourges there is among infectious diseases, killing nearly 2 million people a year, most in developing countries.

While the dizzying holiday shopping season brings retailers their biggest windfalls of the year, it's also the time that the industry's biggest scourges, fraud and theft, kick into high gear.

Such changes would also address Japan's biggest scourge: deflation.

But all three gardeners admit animals are their biggest scourge.

The town's biggest scourge is heroin; the vigilantes kidnap addicts and chain them to their beds.

'Boy racers' - young men who drive fast and recklessly - topped the poll of dangerous drivers compiled on behalf of law firm Cassell Moore, with 48 per cent saying they were the biggest scourge of the roads.

It sure would be convenient if our biggest scourge would turn into our biggest and best source of fuel.

The inquiry also highlighted the scourge of ice in the state, which it ranked as "the biggest threat to Queensland" because of its prevalence and consequences.

The biggest local scourge according to his posts was the many Indigenous people in and around Thunder Bay, whom he referred to as "Chugs," "Injuns," and "tee-pee n----s".

Indeed, despite tabloid headlines about a feckless underclass intent on milking the benefits system, tax evasion is a far bigger social scourge than fraudulent benefit claims.