Sentence examples for counter a scourge from inspiring English sources

Last week, they pledged to spend €6bn (£5bn) over two years to fund job creation, training and apprenticeships for young people in an attempt to counter a scourge that has attained historic proportions.

Today, forty years later, it occurs to me that if my mother was right -- if the look of food is what makes people want to eat it -- there may be a cheap, effective way to counter the scourge of obesity and to dramatically reduce the cost of health care in America.

And the deficit zealots, growing in strength, would do nothing to counter this scourge.

I was a scourge".

Is there a scourge?

"It's a scourge," she said.

Gambling addiction is a scourge.

AIDS had yet to become a scourge.

Back then, he called Twitter a "scourge".

It's a scourge on our society.

They are a scourge to be avoided.