Sentence examples for or scourge from inspiring English sources

Pat Robertson has attributed any manner of slaughter or scourge — September 11th, Hurricane Katrina — to abortionists.

Like Beethoven in his paeans to liberty, Shostakovich was a moral bulwark or scourge.

By Lauren Collins January 29 , 2010Pat Robertson has attributed any manner of slaughter or scourge — September 11th, Hurricane Katrina — to abortionists.

The value of Cage to "Records Ruin the Landscape" is not that he was a naysayer or heel-dragger or scourge but, rather, that he persisted in coming up with ingenious solutions to what he took to be the downside of making and releasing recordings.

A military mastermind (or scourge, depending on your perspective), Nebuchadnezzar devastated the Phoenician city of Sidon, defeated Egypt's armies and, in 587 BC, sacked Jerusalem's Temple of Solomon Saddamm's adventures in Kuwait and Iran are well known.

Indeed, whereas Thucydides used nosos, the term plague, which is used by all the translators of his work, is used in the sense of the Latin term pestis, a term with no clear etymology (4 ), meaning contagious disease, epidemic, or scourge.

A series of Porcian laws were passed to protect citizens from summary execution or scourging, asserting the citizen's right of appeal to the assembly (ius provocationis).

Usually, the condemned man, after being whipped, or "scourged," dragged the crossbeam of his cross to the place of punishment, where the upright shaft was already fixed in the ground.

A hankering for beyond-vanilla sex, or a desire to be claimed, doesn't make you damaged goods or a scourge to womankind.

She is either her daughter's protective angel (Julia's view) or her scourge (Cheryl's view).

Having five people, including Wilmore, talking about intractable issues like the efficacy of protest movements or the scourge of money in politics for a little over seven minutes leaves little space for much discussion, let alone teaching or enlightenment.