Sentence examples for failures that afflict from inspiring English sources

The world's biggest drug company has had a number of cancer drugs fizzle in trials recently, but says it was misleading to blast one company for the high rate of cancer trial failures that afflict the whole drug industry.

While SpaceX has cut costs, it has not avoided the failures that afflict rocket development.

The initiative, negotiated by the State Department's new energy coordinator, David Goldwyn, is meant to reduce the power failures that afflict Pakistan's major cities. "Pakistan's energy shortfall poses serious challenges to your economy and to the lives of individual people and businesses," Mrs. Clinton said.

He certainly foresaw the hubris and failure that have afflicted so many modern presidents, especially in their second terms, when all things start going wrong.

The idea is to repair the hearts of people with congestive heart failure, a condition that afflicts nearly five million Americans, by recreating heart tissue damaged by heart attacks and the wear and tear of aging.

He recommends that researchers also investigate whether the cells can rebuild cardiac muscle during heart failure, a condition that afflicts some 5 million U.S residents and causes the organ to progressively weaken.

Certainly the underlying problems that afflict many black Americans -- impoverishment, educational failure, social and geographic isolation -- have abated but hardly disappeared.

Catastrophic phenomena that afflict millions of lives, ranging from the failure of the Earth's crust in earthquakes, to the collapse of buildings, to the failure of bones due to injuries, all have one common underlying theme: the breakdown of the basic constituents of any material ultimately leads to the failure of its overall structure and intended function.

Despite the human and ecological challenges that afflict those communities, fog remains a constant.

Deflect from all the problems that afflict our country.

We are on the threshold of major discoveries in the chronic diseases that afflict our society.