Sentence examples for on the festering from inspiring English sources

They also show that keeping a Band-Aid on the festering wounds of the Congo costs more, in lives, not just money, than taking resolute action.

And the PNG government has called time on the festering human rights catastrophe that is Manus Island, a development that left both parties gawpingly devoid of answers.

" 'R Xmas," like many of the director Abel Ferrara's films, fixes its jaundiced gaze on the festering underbelly of urban life with a hard-boiled relentlessness that makes "The Sopranos" seem almost sappy.

Green is so famously thin-skinned that becoming plain "Mr" again might well dent his ego, but it amounts to little more than sticking a plaster on the festering wound of the honours system.

Last week, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta lifted the ban preventing female soldiers from officially serving in combat -- a decision that raised the urgency on efforts to address the festering crisis of sexual assault within the U.S. military.

He's the festering blister on the latte-sipping fingers of Toronto's elite, rubbing them exactly the wrong way as they try to go about projecting an image of the city as world class.

That is especially true in the festering feud on the Korean peninsula.On May 24th South Korea's president, Lee Myung-bak, issued a sterner-than-expected response to an international probe which found the North guilty of firing a fatal torpedo that sank one of South Korea's warships and killed 46 of its sailors.

They are the maggots in the festering sore, the flies on rotting flesh.

However, fester B1-type and C-type are clearly on a different evolutionary trajectory than the rest of the B. schlosseri genome and ω statistics provide evidence for selection on all 3 of the fester-allele types tested: A, B1 and C. Exons 4,5 and 8 have statistically higher ω values than the rest of the gene for the A-type West Coast group, the B1-type group, and the C-type group.

Indeed, some opponents of impeachment today complained in the House hallways that they believed the impeachment was based not on the facts but on festering anger against the State Supreme Court for its 1997 "Claremont" decision requiring the state to revamp its heavily local system for financing schools.

LAS VEGAS — On an afternoon of showy symbolism and strident commentary, Derek Fisher took the podium, flanked by 33 constituents in matching shirts, and flipped the script on the N.B.A.'s festering labor drama.