Sentence examples for much afflicted from inspiring English sources

Smallpox: Nepalese royalty was much afflicted by this disease, which wrought havoc with the family tree.

She was much afflicted by migraines, and their influence upon her work was the subject of journalism and medical research.

I started at the paper very much afflicted with the insufferable omniscience of many twenty-something writers.

Matuschek's biography makes especially clear how much depression afflicted Zweig throughout his adult life.

But it's impossible (meaningless, contradictory signs) to measure how much someone is afflicted.

Since then it has been steadily cutting rates to keep the economy away from the slowdown that has afflicted much of Continental Europe.

Their leverage had never been better, and, for the most part, they'd been able to spare their group the cuts in pay and the layoffs that had afflicted much of the rest of the firm.

Indeed, the Ivory Coast has long regarded itself as an oasis of relative affluence and tranquillity amid the excesses of war, famine, religious and ethnic hatreds and other seemingly intractable problems that have afflicted much of post-independence Africa.

But after too many homes were built and prices had climbed beyond any rational connection to local incomes, Boise suffered the same punishing pullback that has afflicted much of the country.

THE real estate markets of the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island are suffering from the housing downturn that has afflicted much of the country, and yet they still have some pockets of strength.

It avoided the severe slump that afflicted much of the European periphery, then had a fairly strong recovery: As you can see, growth has faltered more recently, largely due to fiscal austerity plus the puzzling decision to emulate the ECB and raise interest rates in 2011.