Sentence examples for old scourges from inspiring English sources

Although the primordial importance of wealth-creation is scarcely contested, society remains uncured of old scourges, and is all but overwhelmed by new ones.

Epidemics of old scourges such as pertussis, or whooping cough, remind us that these diseases are not dead, only lying in wait to attack the vulnerable.

In his talk, Dr. Lee said he was concerned not only with old scourges and warned the staff that "we must be ready for new threats".

Despite such great advances in identifying and controlling agents of disease and in devising methods for their control, the world still faces the threat of new diseases such as AIDS and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), the reemergence of old scourges such as tuberculosis, cholera, and diphtheria, and the increasing resistance of microbes to antibiotics.

However, there have recently been outbreaks of some of these old scourges, partly because some parents have been limiting vaccine use.

We benefit from reviewing old scourges: slavery, cholera, influenza.

An Old Scourge Made New Tuberculosis is hardly new in Russia.

But the rains have also stirred up an old scourge: dengue fever, a disease transmitted by mosquitoes.

The animals remain under threat, perhaps more from nations struggling to develop their economies than the old scourge of the poacher, but the wonder remains.

GHOTKI, Pakistan — Banditry is an old scourge in this impoverished district of southern Pakistan, on the plains between the mighty river Indus and a sprawling desert, where roving gangs rob and kidnap with abandon.

Instead, Gates was trotting out that old scourge sanctions.