Sentence examples for great scourges from inspiring English sources

Despite the revised estimates, the epidemic remains one of the great scourges of mankind.

She lived under Communism in a Germany divided by the consequences of fascism and so knew the two great scourges of 20th-century Europe.

My Mothers Day column is about one of the great scourges of the developing world that arises in the process of childbirth: obstetric fistula.

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.

It is arguably a backhanded tribute to his greatness that his standing in the game should have survived brushes with the two great scourges of modern sport — drug use and gambling-driven corruption.

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.

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.