Sentence examples for only afflict from inspiring English sources

The problem does not only afflict the poorest populations.

Fictitious memories do not only afflict those who have been traumatized; people with stable backgrounds also struggle to distinguish between experiences that they had themselves and those they absorbed through someone else's stories.

The team made sure the damage would only afflict seeds by linking the genes to a genetic switch, active only in embryos, from another kind of plant.

Of course, insurance plans cover many things that only afflict men, such as prostate cancer.

She cited the results of studies that "shatter the belief that eating disorders only afflict the young and reveal that boomers have eating disorders at the same rate as teenagers -- nearly 4percentt.

It's one of the things that protects women from developing symptoms of many of the genetic diseases that are carried on the X chromosome and usually only afflict males.

He believes, solipsistically, that solipsism is something that only afflicts other people.

Inconvenient as this may be to some, there isn't some inherent character flaw that only afflicts the poor.

Ideology, as has been pointed out by Amis's sometime opponent Terry Eagleton, among others, has the useful characteristic of only afflicting other people.

10 PE is a compulsory subject There has been a big rise in children saying they can't do PE, or bringing a note from home, and some excuses are dubious to say the least (for example, an ankle problem that seems to go on for months, or a cold that only afflicts the child on one particular day of the week).

Caxias was not only afflicted by concerns over his declining health, but increasingly felt a sense of alienation.