Sentence examples for did it afflict from inspiring English sources
"Who did that comfort and who did it afflict?" Well, Harmony Korine's new film, Trash Humpers, afflicts everyone, the afflicted and the comfortable.
And if it is, why did it not afflict Far Eastern nations with different musical or organizational traditions?
The medical profession was reluctant for many years to acknowledge a condition oncologists now call, with inelegant if commendable candour, "chemo brain" – and like every other side-effect, it does not afflict everyone.
Significant unrest did not afflict the area until the spring of 2008, when many Tibetans across the plateau, including in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, took to the streets to protest Chinese rule.
Every year, three out of every 1,000 children are born with a genetic disease, such as cystic fibrosis, that did not afflict the parents who most likely unknowingly carried a defective copy of a particular gene.
Or maybe both sides could agree that the problems of today's homeless did not afflict Joseph and Mary, and that New York's social programs are not relevant to life in ancient Judea.
For years drug companies ignored any disease that didn't afflict millions of patients.
An infection that did not spare the rich, it afflicted the young Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
It doesn't just afflict the corpulent and the lazy – it does, however, affect more women than men.
The mental distress of law students does not afflict just law students and their families; it affects our whole society.
