Sentence examples for local scourge from inspiring English sources

Dust storms — a local scourge — were greatly reduced.

The administration sees the Shabab more as a local scourge than a direct threat to Americans.

The biggest local scourge according to his posts was the many Indigenous people in and around Thunder Bay, whom he referred to as "Chugs," "Injuns," and "tee-pee n----s".

One is to limit the scourge of "local protectionism" in the Chinese judiciary.

Last year the government spent 17.6 billion rand ($2.1 billion), including from private local outfits, to tackle the scourge, 30% of the cash provided by international donors.

In reality, however, such procedures are simply inadequate to the task of protecting the local Jewish population from the scourge of anti-Semitism.

It remains a terrible, global scourge.

Richard Linklater's "Bernie," currently in theatres, gives Shirley MacLaine a peach of a role — that of a viperish wealthy widow, the reclusive scourge of Carthage, Texas, who sets local tongues wagging when she lets the ingratiating new mortician (Jack Black) into her life.

I did no more than I had to, and no less, to help indigent, beleaguered Zambian wildlife police officers secure both the local wildlife and human populations from this scourge.

Few structures on Syria Street, which bisects the impoverished neighbourhoods of Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen, have escaped the scourge of violence that has plagued local residents.

Last month, I went to a teen drug summit that was organized to fight the local heroin problem some fear could become a scourge in the suburbs of St. Charles County, an affluent area outside St . Louis