Sentence examples for of scourges from inspiring English sources

Male life expectancy in Irkutsk (not the country's lowest) is just 53.Russia leads the world, in fact, in a staggering range of scourges and vices.

The women in Rivecca's disquieting first collection wrestle with various forms of isolation (religious, sexual), when they're not themselves trying to save others from any number of scourges.

We are so used to the thought of scourges that come in microbial sizes, like foot-and-mouth disease, that it is almost shocking to grasp the size of this particular scourge.

The timing is coincidental, but the Gates initiative is a reminder that even the death toll after the tsunami, horrific though it was, is on a lesser scale than this most preventable of scourges.

After a series of scourges inflicted by bees, flat-headed monstrosities and a flesh-warping devil, Manhog attains enlightenment or something like it, then rips open the Veil of Maya with his bare hands and avenges a horribly mutated pyramidal chicken, eventually sacrificing his enlightenment again.

Send in swarms of Scourges to destroy any air units.

It is both a catalyst of procreation and its scourge.

Peggy, who was pale and fat, entertained the fantasy of scourging herself for a mystic bridegroom.

Dr. Tucker, the author of "Scourge," noted that the only publicly available evidence was circumstantial.

The books are drawn by Bettina Kurkoski, who also drew The Rise of Scourge.

Next came The Laws of Scourge (1991), considered a "revolution" in the band's career.