"If we are not open and honest with our membership regarding these events, then, at some time in the future, the current rogue leadership and the unwillingness of the board of directors to address significant internal issues will severely and permanently afflict the N.Y.J.L.," the e-mail message said.
He has no qualifications to do so: he's a mere travel journalist, afflicted, possibly permanently, with writer's block, the "dead hand" of the title.
Acute laminitis transitions to the chronic form of the disease in an estimated 75% of cases [ 4], leaving the majority of afflicted horses permanently lame.
That figure includes more than 2 million children each year afflicted with severe visual problems, of whom an estimated 250000 to 500000 are permanently blinded.
Shut down permanently over the past 15 years are the Florida Philharmonic, San Jose Symphony, Tulsa Philharmonic, Colorado Springs Symphony and the San Antonio Symphony, while bankruptcies have afflicted the New York City Opera and the symphony orchestras of Baltimore, Columbus, Detroit, Honolulu, Indianapolis, Miami, Milwaukee, New Mexico, Philadelphia and Syracuse.
To comfort the afflicted.
Excessive study permanently damaged his health: after bouts of poor vision, he eventually became blind in one eye and developed a cerebrospinal condition that afflicted him all his life.
He is afflicted with loneliness.
The tumours, by contrast, were fatally afflicted.
