Sentence examples for but afflict from inspiring English sources

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They have little cachet but afflict the many.

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The junior McHenry assured the government that his father was alive but afflicted by Alzheimer's disease.

Funny, beautiful and fragile, she was fiery but afflicted, at times laid up by illness and often exhausted by housekeeping.

He received a jail sentence of one to three years but, afflicted by congestive heart failure and Parkinson's disease, he was medically paroled after serving eight weeks.

The book – commendably brief but afflicted with one of the worst titles ever put on a cover – comes with a startling coda.

But, afflicted with chronic modesty, he points out that he got most of the way to the finals on byes and the withdrawal of rivals.

Whereas in Fitzgerald's original the infant was an adult old man, such improbability is differently imagined on screen: the baby is of normal size, but afflicted with all the ailments of the aged.

South Africa, the richest country in sub-Saharan Africa but afflicted with what its scientists and doctors describe as flawed political leadership on health policy over the past decade, is one of only four nations that experienced a rise in mortality rates for children under age 5 from 1990 to 2008.

3 1 Next, having conquered Carthage and extended its empire over the seas, it p421 waxed great, but afflicted by strife with allies it lost all sense of happiness, and crushed by civil wars it wasted away in weakness until the time of Augustus.

But afflicting the comfortable does not mean visually assaulting viewers who are probably trying to relax, eat and watch news while trying to unwind after a busy day.

Dangerous populism and toxic xenophobia are again on the rise in Europe and the US – but also afflict minorities across the rest of the world.

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