Sentence examples for it is afflicted from inspiring English sources

To them war is a calamity and a social disaster, whether it is afflicted by one nation upon another or conceived of as afflicting humanity as a whole.

Channel 4 News's political editor Gary Gibbon tells me it is afflicted by "false consciousness" – that it just doesn't realise how deep a hole it's in.

Brainstem disorders can cause coma if the brainstem is compressed by other parts of the brain swollen because of disease or if it is afflicted by local disease such as encephalitis, stroke, or concussion.

Meanwhile, it is afflicted by dichotomy: a split between mandarin indulgence and stylised stridency, this is itself a valid reflection of the class structure.' He compared the situation in Britain with the US, where there had long been a tradition of literate sportswriting.

This approach was and is used by the locals, however, it is afflicted with distinct disadvantages due to the lack of suitable sites, common failures like a complete drying up during the dry season or drainage of the water through sinkholes into the underlying limestone (Waltham et al. 1985).

Unfortunately, both these technologies are not suitable for indoor environments, the first because of the severity of multipath noise from which it is afflicted and the difficulties of multi-object localization, the second because of the buildings obstructiveness on GNSS signals.

It is afflicting many German and other European companies, as a wave of mergers sweeps across the continent (see article).

There are numerous theories for why the number of people suffering from mental illness is increasing and why it is afflicting people at younger and younger ages.

Dickian amnesia is particularly insidious because the mind isn't even aware that it's afflicted, except, perhaps, subliminally: a persistent, rationally inexplicable feeling that you're living a lie.

That it was afflicted by "institutional paralysis", and that there was a "lamentable failure" by Railtrack to respond to earlier incidents involving signals on the Ladbroke Grove section of track outside Paddington.

The critic Eric Bentley held him significantly responsible for America's support of the Vietnam war, and says that it made him "the most important American of our time".… Both friends and critics of American policy in the nineteen-sixties and nineteen-seventies said that it was afflicted with a "John Wayne syndrome".