Sentence examples for in plagues from inspiring English sources

He visits China and Kenya to illustrate how dramatic declines in plagues have affected national economies.

The stockman's zeal for eliminating the coyote has resulted in plagues of field mice, which the coyote formerly controlled.

He stresses the dangers of open markets and open borders that result, he suggests, only in plagues like mad cow and foot-and-mouth disease.

Early rabbis are quoted revelling, with a unself-conscious pathos, in plagues inflicted on the Egyptians, magnifying oppressors' suffering like a wounded boy fantasizing about what his father should do to a bully.

In wars, in famines, in plagues.

The same weather that has promoted hantavirus has caused a rise in plague in the Southwest.

It does not appear in people whose ancestors lived in plague-free areas of the world.

In Plague, combat has been stripped out entirely and stealth made far easier.

The protagonist, Aschenbach, checks himself into a cosmopolitan hotel in plague-ridden Venice, to fulfil his wish to die.

Even in "Plague in an Ancient City," by far his most rhetorical work, with the dead and dying strewn across a checkered piazza, the emotional climate is temperate.

He pioneered measures to eradicate rabbits, an introduced pest then in plague proportions throughout Australia.