Sentence examples for may be afflicting from inspiring English sources

A different problem may be afflicting advanced economies today.

How can the women achieve true autonomy when they don't even know how many of them there are and what may be afflicting at least some of them?

Eczema is not contagious, but more than one member of a family may be afflicted.

The mother may have discovered the pregnancy too late to take action, or either parent may be afflicted with a mental disorder.

Such students "may be afflicted by a sense of lost identity," the copy read, adding that university life presented "a whole new world . . . of anxiety".

The revelation that Wilson may be afflicted with a physiological vulnerability to the downward pull — to the sort of self-annihilating impulse best described in William Styron's "Darkness Visible" — simultaneously fascinates us and causes us to avert our gaze.

"The new college student may be afflicted by a sense of lost identity in a strange environment... Her newly stimulated intellectual curiosity may make her more sensitive to and apprehensive about unstable national and world conditions".

One character worries that God himself may be afflicted by amnesia – "and if a thing is not in God's mind, then what chance of it remaining in those of mortal men?" Ishiguro is less certain than Tolkien that what has been forgotten can be redeemed.

But with so little certain about how hazardous the air might have been in the weeks after Sept. 11, officials say that up to 30,000 people may be afflicted with health problems -- hence the push for $90 million more, which officials say would finance regular health examinations for up to 20 years.

Previous research may be afflicted by unadjusted confounding by socioeconomic or psychosocial factors.

Pregnant women may be afflicted with surgical condition and/or medical requiring admission to intensive care unit.