Sentence examples for considered a scourge from inspiring English sources

IT HAS long been considered a scourge, an obstacle to investment and a tax on the thrifty.

For them, the battle came to symbolize New York's low-income-housing crisis, the pressures of gentrification and, in the mid-1990's, the zeal of the Giuliani administration for ridding neighborhoods of what it considered a scourge.

For generations, states across the nation banned the sale of liquor on Sundays with so-called Blue Laws, stubborn reminders of a time when demon drink was considered a scourge, the chief cause of society's ills.

When people use their distinct language down the generations, it's usually bad, indicating discrimination or segregation precisely what "diversity" fans would otherwise consider a scourge.

BOOM BOXES In a more technologically innocent era, the shoulder-mounted radio was considered an aesthetic scourge right up there with graffiti and un-poop-scooped sidewalks.

Like most Trump voters, he considered Obamacare a scourge, and since he selects insurance policies for Mine Lifeline's forty-odd employees he could argue in detail that nearly everyone in his company was worse off than before.

With the rise of the office, Mills argued, came the invention of leisure, which he considered both a scourge and a swindle: "Each day men sell little pieces of themselves in order to try to buy them back each night and week end".

Cerreti had grown up in the Mafia stronghold of Sicily, but she had trained in Milan, where the Mob was considered an embarrassment and a scourge.

Next came The Laws of Scourge (1991), considered a "revolution" in the band's career.

Adams had come to consider printers a scourge: rubbing your rulers is all well and good, but not when the ruler is you.

For nearly 40 years, Bob Woodward has been considered a near-saint by many journalists for helping break the Watergate scandal and a scourge by conservatives for doing the same.