Sentence examples for great scourge from inspiring English sources
Sepsis — infection — was the other great scourge of surgery.
The other great scourge of Africa is war.
Popular culture has surely produced no more satiric a view of that great scourge of public progress, the Apathetic Teacher, than last year's bluntly titled comedy "Bad Teacher".
Burke was famously a great scourge of corruption, spending seven years trying to impeach Warren Hastings, the governor general of India at the turn of the 18th century.
… He stands as a rebuke to the great scourge of history and of our world today: the tribalism that pits people of different religions, races and ethnicities against one another.
New semi-dwarf sorghum has three times the previous yield, and genetic research has shown how to control cassava's great scourge, viral disease.The problem now is to get those improved seeds to the farmers.
Despite the revised estimates, the epidemic remains one of the great scourges of mankind.
My Mothers Day column is about one of the great scourges of the developing world that arises in the process of childbirth: obstetric fistula.
The possible link between the two great scourges has garnered so much attention that the American Cancer Society and the American Diabetes Association jointly published a consensus statement this summer summarizing the evidence.
She lived under Communism in a Germany divided by the consequences of fascism and so knew the two great scourges of 20th-century Europe.
During the 2008 campaign, President Obama promised to deal with one of the world's great scourges — thousands of nuclear weapons still in the American and Russian arsenals.
