Sentence examples for major affliction from inspiring English sources

Now, a rash is a superficial thing, certainly much less serious than a broken leg, but in terms of minute-by-minute torment, it is a major affliction.

Now, however, to the production's major affliction, which points to a potential problem companies such as Bedlam encounter when casting plays that don't easily fit the members' ages and abilities.

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a major affliction which burdens people globally [ 6].

Upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) is a major affliction that has been known from antiquity and remains a common medical problem worldwide [ 1].

Dr. Mann said he would not use acupuncture to treat infectious diseases or such major afflictions as cancer.

A comprehensive report last year from the Institute of Medicine is just one of many studies to report that vaccines do not cause autism, diabetes, asthma or other major afflictions listed by the anti-vaccination movement.

John P. Holdren, now President Obama's science adviser, wrote in "Science and Technology for Sustainable Well-Being" that when you measure human harm in years of life lost (e.g., a child cut down by disease loses decades; a grandmother dying of a stroke at 80 loses a few years), the major afflictions of poverty and affluence do us in at roughly equal rates.

Now consider effective treatment of major afflictions: The U.S. beats others hands down.

Although "Sweet Bird" was Williams's penultimate commercial success, before "The Night of the Iguana" (in between came "Period of Adjustment") and more than 20 years of critical failures, it is an overwritten piece that grinds away, less at the playwright's major theme, "the affliction of loneliness," than on "the enemy time," the ephemera of youth and beauty.

Socio-psychological affliction is another major reason to manage this side-effect intensively.

The Keller act would be a major step in addressing a growing affliction in this country–fear of lawsuits.