Sentence examples for has now afflicted from inspiring English sources

The government data also show that violence has now afflicted 831 communities nationwide, an increase of 7 percent.

Not only has the country been a serial conflict zone for almost forty years, it has now been afflicted with the burden of "vast riches," as the New York Times headline put it.

Previously a form of madness which only afflicted Arsenal supporters, the compulsion to display giant images of Atom and Humber has now reached Manchester United.

And while historically gout has been a male disease (three-fourths of cases occur in men), the incidence has been rising in older women, with as many as one in 20 over age 70 now afflicted.

Even grown-up university students are now afflicted with this condition.

Still affected by his rheumatism, he was now afflicted with tuberculosis.

Early reports of hardware failures afflicting Sony's new PlayStation 4 console have now become widespread enough to acquire a nickname: the "Blue Light of Death".

This ideological shift has led to the taxophobia now afflicting nations.

But appearances deceive, for Denmark has an acute case of the identity crisis now afflicting several European states.

This tax now afflicts many middle-class taxpayers and has required frequent fixes by Congress so it doesn't impact even more.

Professor Ruhm, who teaches economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, has spent years studying localized economic downturns like the one now afflicting New York City, where the unemployment rate now tops 7percentt.