Sentence examples for human scourges from inspiring English sources

Why are we trying to be fancy?" As problems go, bulked-up toothbrushes — the kind that make obsolete the old-fashioned built-in ceramic cup and toothbrush holders that persist in many homes and apartments like relics of a less sophisticated (but, one can't help feel, more grounded) age — don't rank high on the list of human scourges.

By virtue of their unknown biology, newly-emerging diseases are more challenging than familiar human scourges.

Animal viruses transform into human scourges in stages, he and two colleagues theorized in a 2007 paper in the journal Nature.

The domestic cat has offered enormous genomic potential in the veterinary description of over 250 hereditary disease models as well as the occurrence of several deadly feline viruses (feline leukemia virus -- FeLV, feline coronavirus -- FECV, feline immunodeficiency virus - FIV) that are homologues to human scourges (cancer, SARS, and AIDS respectively).

Plague has been a human scourge for more than twice as long as had previously been thought, new research suggests.

"May we never fight again, until the time is right to rise up and fight side by side against the irredeemable human scourge".

Smallpox, an ancient human scourge of unparalleled destructive importance throughout most of recorded human history, is believed to have emerged in the Middle East some 6,000 10,000 years ago (1, 2 ) from either camelpox or the gerbil-specific taterapox (3 – 5 ).

Even as we continue to learn more about the intercontinental spread of this ancient human scourge, we are reminded of the continued effectiveness of traditional public health control measures.

Dr. Condon said the story line that jellyfish were taking over the oceans started with a paper published in the journal Science in 2001 predicting a series of human-induced scourges on the world's oceans.

He considers how the disembodied voice of the Judaic God, speaking from the clouds, became the all too human Christian one, scourged and bleeding, rather more seen than heard.

One of the greatest accomplishments of the 20th century was to make famine — for all of human history a scourge that seemed as inevitable as the other three horsemen of the apocalypse, war, plague, and death — a rarity.