Sentence examples for many scourges from inspiring English sources

Among the many scourges the whites faced was sleeping sickness, which attacked both Europeans and their horses.

Domestic violence is one of many scourges plaguing the N.F.L., but, unlike the abuse of drugs or steroids, punishment for the abuse of women is not neatly outlined in the league's many policies and manuals.

Indeed, in the wake of Mr Samba's complaint, the RFU announced the establishment of a special working group designed to root out "racism, xenophobia and extremism".Violence is one of many "scourges" of eastern European football, according to Mr Platini, alongside match-fixing, doping, player trafficking and illegal betting.

However, many other scourges, such as variant CJD or salmonella, are not.

Experts can point out until they're blue in the face that the odds of getting Ebola are tiny, and that many other scourges, such as traffic deaths, accidental shootings, and suicides, pose a much bigger danger to the public.

Like so many cultural scourges (chewing gum, Bruce Willis, e-mail), phylloxera originated in the U.S. and quickly circled the globe.

But that paper bag was meant to be opened ripped away like so many inhibitions scourged.

And though they had survived one of history's greatest scourges, many, as we are reminded by the closing years of their biographies, did not live to see this project completed.

According to Hadley, the plant's many unpleasant-sounding scourges — vascular-streak dieback, swollen-shoot virus, frosty pod, witches' broom — routinely reduce yields by about thirty per cent worldwide.

It was just one of a number of timeless scourges, many of them long eradicated in the West, that seemed to be a permanent fixture in the Global South.

This is due to the enormous implications and potential of this research toward alleviating many of the scourges of the developed world such as cancer and autoimmune diseases.