Sentence examples for minor scourge from inspiring English sources

Yet if the urban comeback of the last decade has proved anything, it is that symbols matter, that cities that look and feel safer probably are safer, that a city that can control a minor scourge like graffiti might eventually be able to address bigger problems.

The malaria parasite remained a minor scourge for America into living memory.

You could call them cardboard characters, pierced and flattened for the delight of the crowd, but Aronofsky cast the minor roles with real wrestlers, and you believe in every scourging of the flesh.

For years, one of the most divisive topics in New York State has been how to soften the Rockefeller-era drug laws, which sought to counter the drug scourge of the 1970's by setting long sentences even for relatively minor drug crimes.

Currently, several kinds of preparations from various exotic, endemic and indigenous plants are sold as decoctions or "tisanes" in several markets to treat minor ailments and major pathologies, including DM. DM in Mauritius is becoming a devastating scourge with more than 120,000 cases reported and 4.6% death from DM complications such as nephropathy and neuropathy [ 7].

Pope Francis has called for the church to exhibit "zero tolerance" of sexual abuse of minors or vulnerable adults by clergy and that "everything possible must be done to rid the church of the scourge of the sexual abuse".

I was a scourge".

The scourge of poverty.

Is there a scourge?

STAR WARS: SCOURGE, by Jeff Grubb.

Diabetes is a particular scourge.