Sentence examples for destructive scourge from inspiring English sources
Donald Henderson Donald Ainslie Hendersonn), (born Sept. 7, 1928, Lakewood, Ohio died Aug. 19, 2016, Towson, Md ., American epidemiologist who spearheaded the successful international effort to eradicate smallpox, a disease that was for many centuries a feared and destructive scourge of humanity.
TO sailors, barnacles are a scourge, a destructive nuisance that have to be scraped off the bottoms of their boats.
ALBANY – The New York State comptroller, Thomas P. DiNapoli, declared victory on Thursday over a relatively little-known scourge: environmentally destructive doughnuts.
Not only is this obnoxious scourge distracting, destructive, arguably deadly, and antisocial - but it's spreading.
Shame on Mr. Brooks for trying to laud the president for a miserly and actively destructive approach to the terrible scourge that is AIDS.
They didn't recognize how the sports drug landscape had changed, how destructive and divisive the new scourge of pharmacology would become when players were allowed to alter the terms of competition.
Smallpox, an ancient human scourge of unparalleled destructive importance throughout most of recorded human history, is believed to have emerged in the Middle East some 6,000 10,000 years ago (1, 2 ) from either camelpox or the gerbil-specific taterapox (3 – 5 ).
Among the most destructive of them all is the unregulated gold mining that has become a scourge of the west Amazon.
Destructive: constructive.
