Sentence examples for current affliction from inspiring English sources

Selecting prosecutors based on their political party membership might be a cure worse than the current affliction.

But Ferris told the crowd at (Le) Poisson Rouge earlier this evening that he has had no difficulty identifying his own current affliction: a four-day-old cold sore.

Naturally, the depiction of her current affliction inspires sympathy, yet it's the film's handling of her previous character that's impossible to square with the fiend envisioned by her detractors.

His diagnosis of the Democratic Party's current affliction is simple.

But every journalist, no matter what she or he covers, can stand for a lot less of the one word that the media critic and professor Jay Rosen has so aptly used to describe the current affliction of our profession: "savviness".

PARIS — In the background of Europe's current afflictions — the headline malady of its suddenly shaky common currency or the sputtering of its notional economic recovery — there's a painful subtext.

So long as the fallout now suffered by the Guriev class remains a minority affliction, their current travails are unlikely to rouse any major solidarity among their less fortunate countrymen, who have yet to become fully fledged stakeholders in the system.

The government has long known what it was up against with P.T.S.D. and brain injuries — the signature afflictions of current wars.

HBO's "Boardwalk Empire," to name the most prominent current example, suffers from the same affliction, though it's more entertaining by virtue of being more forthrightly lurid and soap-operatic.

As he tries to explain his affliction to Kalwant Kaur, his current lover, he tells the story of discovering the girl after breaking into a house and killing her family: "I could have slashed her throat, but I didn't. . . .

Many have argued that narcissism is the defining affliction of our age, whether evidenced by current pop lyrics or by research on the uses of social media.