Sentence examples for long afflicted from inspiring English sources

Long afflicted by a substance abuse problem, Lymon died in 1968 from a drug overdose.

Guerrilla dances survive particularly in the Balkans and Turkey, long afflicted by invading armies.

The many complex problems that have long afflicted public schools are being laid almost solely at the feet of the nation's teachers' unions.

The opposition's statement came as its own internal divisions became even more pronounced, an issue that has long afflicted the diverse array of Mr. Assad's adversaries in the conflict that is now more than two years old.

But Daimler's glum forecast for 2013 was the latest evidence that Germany, and other relatively healthy countries like Austria and Finland, risk falling into the recession that has long afflicted their southern neighbors.

Ms. Betancourt also emerges as a central figure in "Hostage Nation," by Victoria Bruce, Karin Hayes and Jorge Enrique Botero, whose focus is precisely the broader guerrilla conflict that has long afflicted Colombia, and the resulting United States-led effort to undermine the FARC through what the book calls "the failed war on drugs".

Of interest, the larger joints of the knee, elbow, wrist, and ankle appeared to be the longest afflicted.

Republicans have long been afflicted with the condition.

He has long been afflicted by depression, and eventually he began therapy.

Inflation, meanwhile, which not so long ago afflicted the industrial world at double-digit levels, once seemed intractable.

Leachman also introduced "Young Frankenstein" star Teri Garr, who has long been afflicted with multiple sclerosis.