Sentence examples for persistent scourge from inspiring English sources

Across South Asia and the Middle East, the sex trafficking of girls is a persistent scourge.

Investigators from the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department said that they were unable to locate Mr. Kinzey, who they say supplied a ring of midlevel and street dealers with methamphetamine, a persistent scourge in the working-class cities east of Los Angeles.

Even malaria, an old and persistent scourge, is demonstrating an increasing speed of transmission attributed to socioeconomic factors that include land use, population growth and urbanization, migration changes and travel.

The astounding and persistent scourge of genocide in our world is traceable to leaders who believed that it was to their political advantage to commit such crimes, and that they would be able to do so with impunity--which, in most cases, was entirely correct.

As Fredric Dicker, the Post's longtime Albany editor and the press corps's most persistent Spitzer scourge, noted on his radio show the following morning, "It's been years since I've seen the kind of glee on the part of Republicans that we saw here yesterday".

Despite an overall decline in deaths on America's roads, distracted driving remains a persistent, and possibly intensifying, scourge.

While there has been a mass demobilisation in countries such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo over the past decade, the scourge is persistent in finding new outlets.

The Olympics are a scourge, a persistent disease that we know how to cure but refuse to because organizers, politicians and the media are too full of the conceit that the Olympics must exist.

Caught between two armies, plundered by the Arab militia, and scourged by a persistent drought, countless Africans fled to northern towns and cities or sought sanctuary in Ethiopia.

He also had to deal with a less weighty, but stubbornly persistent problem that has dogged him throughout his second term: the scourge of the selfie.

A further peculiarity of Dodona was the "bronze," a large gong set vibrating at every breeze by a scourge held in the hand of a figure standing over it; the persistent ringing passed into a Greek proverbial phrase Khalkos Dodones ("Brass of Dodona")—for a continuous talker who has nothing to say.