Sentence examples for on the scourge from inspiring English sources

The recent tragic murders of young boys in London show just how urgently we need to take on the scourge of gang violence".

Houston activists know that they have an uphill battle to take on the scourge of workers rights abuses in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, but they also say that the storm unleashed something else: a mobilized mass of workers seeking change.

In World War Two, we were the Arsenal of Democracy, arming and equipping our allies while at the same time building our own forces to take on the scourge of global fascism.

"It's just a big box .The Institute for Justice, which has been doing (ahem) the lord's work with respect to occupational licensing, recently released a paper on the scourge, which estimated that one in three workers need some sort of government permission to do their job.

His attack on the scourge of FGM was quite without diplomatic circumlocution.

Three years later she was sermonising to the family on the scourge of world poverty.

It is this leadership that will stand the day on behalf of the scourge of TBIs and many other emergency aberrations that they encounter daily on the front lines of care.

Third, Americans are catching on to the scourge of the nation's raging inequality, and its baleful consequences for our economy and democracy.

Most of the new money went on fighting the scourges on the list: HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and maternal and infant mortality.The growth in health-care aid has now slowed to less than half the rate of the early 2000s.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla .— On Thursday night, sold-out Jacksonville Municipal Stadium became a Petri dish for the scourge on the workplace that is the sick day.

JAKE HILDNER Chicago, Aug. 12, 2013 To the Editor: An effective attack on the scourges that Peter Singer cites, and so many other endemic diseases, will be mounted only by an ethical society with an educated, broadly aware populace.