Sentence examples for heavy afflictions from inspiring English sources

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose stubborn, lonely and combative literary struggles gained the force of prophecy as he revealed the heavy afflictions of Soviet Communism in some of the most powerful works of the 20th century, died late on Sunday at the age of 89 in Moscow.

It was at a time when my life was dipping in and out of being unbearable and unliveable because of a heavy affliction of depression.

The afflictions are large and small.

Nevertheless, 'Abdu'l-Bahá remained utterly reliant on God; as he wrote, Affliction beat upon this captive like the heavy rains of spring, and the victories of the malevolent swept down in a relentless flood, and still 'Abdu'l-Bahá remained happy and serene, and relied on the grace of the All-Merciful.

The afflictions of Old World diseases, war and overwork in the mines and encomiendas took a heavy toll on the inhabitants of eastern Guatemala, to the extent that indigenous population levels never recovered to their pre-conquest levels.

Some hospitals are reporting heavy losses on outpatient care for H.I.V. and AIDS patients today, particularly as the disease has spread beyond an affliction primarily among gay men to attack more low-income people who are without insurance, including heterosexual intravenous drug users and their spouses.

The afflictions continue.

Washington's afflictions have deep, complex roots.

Now these are afflictions of different kinds.

Neuroses are afflictions of the "worried well".

The election euphoria of 2008, when their party secured heavy majorities in both chambers of Congress and Barack Obama won the presidency with ease, has deflated so rapidly that analysts are now diagnosing on the left an affliction they ascribed to the Republicans back then: an "enthusiasm gap .The present gap is really more of a chasm.