Sentence examples for have long afflicted from inspiring English sources

The many complex problems that have long afflicted public schools are being laid almost solely at the feet of the nation's teachers' unions.

In Italy, where youth unemployment has been at about 40% for three years and full-time staff jobs are nearly impossible to find, the exam cheating sheds light on some of the woes that have long afflicted the economy: widespread corruption, pervasive mafia influence, a lack of meritocracy and a rigid labour market.

This law allows those with pre-existing medical conditions to get coverage, it enables those who could not previously afford care to seek treatment for illnesses that have long afflicted them.

The opposition's statement came as its own internal divisions became even more pronounced, an issue that has long afflicted the diverse array of Mr. Assad's adversaries in the conflict that is now more than two years old.

But Daimler's glum forecast for 2013 was the latest evidence that Germany, and other relatively healthy countries like Austria and Finland, risk falling into the recession that has long afflicted their southern neighbors.

Ms. Betancourt also emerges as a central figure in "Hostage Nation," by Victoria Bruce, Karin Hayes and Jorge Enrique Botero, whose focus is precisely the broader guerrilla conflict that has long afflicted Colombia, and the resulting United States-led effort to undermine the FARC through what the book calls "the failed war on drugs".

Republicans have long been afflicted with the condition.

Rumors quickly surfaced that Francis had died after being inoculated, and so, Franklin wrote in the Pennsylvania Gazette, on December 30, that "[he] intended to get [Francis] inoculated as soon as he should have recovered sufficient strength from a flux with which he had been long afflicted," and that the boy "received the distemper in the common way of infection".

He has long been afflicted by depression, and eventually he began therapy.

Leachman also introduced "Young Frankenstein" star Teri Garr, who has long been afflicted with multiple sclerosis.

The region has long been afflicted by food shortages amid wars with Sudan's government, economic neglect and seasonal drought and flooding patterns.