Sentence examples for global plague from inspiring English sources

STORRS -- "William Hogarth (1697-1764)." Through April 2. "Stolen Childhoods: The Global Plague of Child Labor," photographs by Robin Romano.

Bruce Willis plays a time traveler from the year 2035, sent to find out how a global plague got started.

Does It Hold Clues for Today March 28 28) makes no mention of the environment in which the so-called Spanish flu became a devastating global plague.

There is debate over when syphilis, caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum, first appeared, but historians said it became a global plague in the 16th century.

The supposedly benign dispersal of risk was revealed for what it really was: a global plague that spread dangerous risk to nearly all major financial institutions.

Amazingly enough, it turns out that the Franciscan priest was not referring to the collective violence and recurring symptoms of the global plague of Catholic priests who harmed children, enabled by the malignant neglect of the Vatican.

Afghanistan at that time was not an ungoverned space, but a state sponsor of terrorism; indeed, al-Qaeda arguably became a terrorist sponsor of a state.Terrorism aside, what of other global plagues?

The movement has been promoted by theologians and, in one milestone, it was endorsed in 2009 by the Southern Baptist Convention, which called on churches to create an "adoption culture" in response to "the horrors of a divorce culture, an abortion industry, and the global plagues of disease, starvation, and warfare".

Nick Bostrom's job is to dream up increasingly lurid scenarios that could wipe out the human race: Asteroid strikes; high-energy physics experiments that go wrong; global plagues of genetically-modified superbugs; the emergence of all-powerful computers with scant regard for human life that sort of thing.

Nick Bostrom's job is to dream up increasingly lurid scenarios that could wipe out the human race: Asteroid strikes; high-energy physics experiments that go wrong; global plagues of genetically-modified superbugs; the emergence of all-powerful computers with scant regard to human life – that sort of thing.

With the rise of global terrorism, plague has come to be seen as a potential weapon of biological warfare.