Sentence examples for only afflicted from inspiring English sources

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

Previously a form of madness which only afflicted Arsenal supporters, the compulsion to display giant images of Atom and Humber has now reached Manchester United.

Corn earworm moths are not always vulnerable to the bacterium, and they are only afflicted by nematodes once the larvae have pupated and dropped to the ground.

Prior to the genocides in the countries of Rwanda and Burundi, which lie across the border from Kagera, HIV infection only afflicted 2.8percentt of this stable, religious community.

I wasn't the only afflicted passenger.

The problem does not only afflict the poorest populations.

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.

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.

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).