Sentence examples for had been afflicting from inspiring English sources

Letta was tasked with the formation of a cross-party cabinet that would resolve the political deadlock that had been afflicting Italy since the February 2013 general elections.

The man's spinach plants had been afflicted with downy mildew and were collapsing.

The trees had been afflicted, years before, with a bondage of little holiday lights in strings.

He was sixty years of age and since 1919 had been afflicted by a mental illness.

Wall Street had been afflicted by the wrong kind of neurochemicals.

I exorcised others who had been afflicted by African witch doctors".

At all stages of his life, he had been afflicted with the sense that he was just a "wannabe".

Separatism was supposed to be an antidote to all the altruism that women had been afflicted with since time immemorial.

In November 2002, the Chinese government found that a large number of people had been afflicted with atypical pneumonia in Guangdong Province.

A plaque by Menephtah's case explained that the pharaoh, who died about 1200 B.C., had been afflicted with atherosclerosis.

For weeks, he had been afflicted with nightmares in which he and his brother Washington were fighting enemies they could not recognize.