Sentence examples for its plague from inspiring English sources

It's unlikely that, in 1666, the baker Thomas Farriner started the Great Fire because he was fed up with the preposterous rent of the city's shoebox apartments, the disembowelment of its cultural institutions, or its plague of franchise eateries and foreign oligarchs.

In 2003, the Phnom Penh governor urged citizens to help rid the city of its plague of feral dogs by eating them, according to The Cambodia Daily.

­Every era has its plagues.

Its resources are limited, its tribes fiercely independent and well-armed, its plagues of poverty, illiteracy and malnutrition persistent.

Since communism collapsed 20 years ago, Bulgarians have been waiting for a saviour to rid the land of its plagues: corruption, nepotism and impunity for the powerful of the day.

With its pompous paradoxes and its plagues of adverbs, its endless sentences and its strained rebellious poses, much of this promotional writing serves mainly, it seems, as ammunition for those who still insist contemporary art is a fraud.

George Steiner, in his eloquent essay "In Bluebeard's Castle," provides a corrective to our belief that the end of the Middle Ages, with its plagues and social anarchy, meant the end of barbarism.

Yoichi Funabashi, the chairman of Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation and a former editor-in-chief of Japan's Asahi Shimbun, said TEPCO has made significant progress in rectifying its plagued corporate governance and lack of leadership.

Gravity has pulled down its elevators and its bridges, plague has devoured its population.

It had been granted an entire year to fulfil its promise, only to renege on its mandate, plague the world sadistically with tribulation.

So far, so different, but the Tour could barely get under way without some kind of echo of the doping scandals that form its perennial plague.