As we commemorate 25 years of the landmark international treaty known as the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and as Malaysia prepares to mark 20 years of its commitment to the CRC next year, we reiterate our conviction that no child in Malaysia should be subjected to the devastating physical and emotional scourge that abuse inflicts.
There, Depardieu plays a country priest, obsessed with evil, who offers his parishioners no consolation but, rather, a ruthless mirror of moral self-examination, which he applies to himself as well, with a scourge of physical self-punishment.
FOR months Orrin Hatch, a Republican from Utah who is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has been negotiating an end to litigation over asbestos, scourge of both physical health and, via lawsuits, the financial health of America's insurers.
Then, of course, there are post-retirement physical ailments - particularly the scourge of brain injury, with repeated concussions being linked to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), depression and suicide.
Blood doping - an illegal means of increasing an athlete's red blood cell count to gain a physical edge - has been a scourge in many sports, but a similar process occurs naturally during pregnancy.
Yet recent headlines reveal that that even some of these physical elites have been diagnosed with a sometimes incurable medical scourge: methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, or MRSA.
The problem is exacerbated by the well-known scourge of shared ownership: sky-high service charges that can bear little resemblance to the physical appearance of a development or the work apparently done to it.
According to the authors Steven Roby and Brad Schreiber: "Alcohol would later be the scourge of his existence, driving him to fits of pique, even rare bursts of atypical, physical violence".
