Sentence examples for increasingly afflicted from inspiring English sources

Three artificial channels from the Yangtze would transport precious water from the south, which itself is increasingly afflicted by droughts; the region is suffering its worst one in 50 years.

Critics of the $62 billion project, called the South-North Water Diversion, point out that the Yangtze region is increasingly afflicted by droughts, and so precious water should not be sent north.

The shapes were generally feminine and the entire effort was characterized by restrained mastery and the sensation of entering a hermetic universe, one that seems increasingly afflicted with a nagging irrelevance.

With four dogs they trekked southward, increasingly afflicted by frostbite, snow blindness and, eventually, scurvy.

Richard Louv's book Last Child in the Woods suggests that Americans, particularly our children, are increasingly afflicted with what he calls "nature deficit disorder".

As I write this piece I am preparing to leave my comfortable home in St . Louisfor my summer "vacation" in an African nation ravaged by hunger, stalked by infectious diseases, and increasingly afflicted by climate change.

Controversy increasingly afflicts the High Line, with undertones of class and inter-borough animus.

Once considered a disease of older people, poor diets and higher rates of obesity mean it is increasingly afflicting those of working age as well.

Type 2 diabetes, the most widespread variety and the focus of this series, increasingly afflicts children, who rarely got it a generation ago.

Next month's issue will feature an interview with a doctor who discusses why breast cancer is increasingly afflicting younger women.

The third general area concerns the non-communicable diseases that are increasingly afflicting the human population, including those associated with the use of tobacco and obesity, as well as diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular and oncologic conditions.