Sentence examples for current scourge from inspiring English sources

It was probably inevitable that gluten, the current scourge of American diets, be eliminated from makeup as well.

The current scourge is land grabbing: powerful men -- many of them military officers -- drive farmers from their fields as they rush to seize the nation's wealth in Cambodia's unregulated, grab-what-you-can economy.

And other times he recognizes the tenuous moral position he is in, and tries to talk his way out of it: "I'm willing to absorb only the smallest portion of blame or responsibility for the current scourge of talking-to-the-dead cons," Mr. Edward writes.

For the record, he points out that he has never failed a drug test -- although neither did other riders who subsequently admitted to using banned substances -- and denies using erythropoetin, or EPO, an oxygen carrier that is the current scourge of the sport, except when he was recovering from chemotherapy in 1996 for testicular cancer that spread to his brain and his lungs.

"We believe that this latest development at an international level is crucial for South Africa to effectively deal with the current scourge of poaching, and with the illegal hunting largely driven by the international demand for the rhino horn".

Temporarily destroying her career is a soothing balm for a national soul tortured by what to do about the current scourge of racism and inequality that is not a remnant of the past but a policy of the present.

I wasn't too surprised, then, when he recently told shareholders that he thinks some of the biggest opportunities in 2008 will come from two of the market's current scourges: financials and consumer stocks.

And there was the inauguration, when Bill and Hillary Clinton were photographed chatting with the former vice-presidential candidate and current White House scourge, Paul Ryan. "We were just kind of chumming it up," Ryan told "Meet the Press".

Given recent around-the-clock media coverage, you could be forgiven for thinking I was describing ISIS, the current global scourge.

Rather than sheer stupidity, I suspect the answer is blind arrogance: they fondly imagine that more vulnerable competitors will succumb to the current financial scourge, allowing the stronger, brighter dinosaurs (that is, themselves) to slither from their bunkers and garner whatever resources remain.

To eradicate this scourge, current efforts must be bolstered by additional financial and political investments.