'plagues' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to an event, a situation, or an illness that has a very serious and damaging effect on a person or place. For example: "The plagues of poverty and homelessness have been a major issue in many cities around the world for decades."
The plagues are strikingly recreated from a visual effects point of view, but one of Rameses' cronies pops up to provide boring rational explanations for them; and the Red Sea just sort of goes away of its own accord.
(In The Ten Commandments, though, Cecil B DeMille only managed four plagues: he couldn't work out how to do frogs, flies, lice, boils, locusts or the death of livestock with the special-effects technology of the 1950s).
But there's disappointment in store when Rameses refuses to listen to Moses's plea to let his people go, and Egypt is visited by … four plagues.
I'm also an Asian woman and as much I try to fight it, this identity plagues my darkest thoughts – my insecurities about beauty and success are rooted in a society where white means beauty and opportunity and non-white means ugliness, fetishism or under-representation.
Revolutions, wars and plagues accompany inflationary waves; peace, prosperity and progress are the handmaidens of the intervening periods of stability.Understanding these waves, Mr Fischer reckons, demands more than a purely economic analysis.
It is called, with that delight in creating forced acronyms that plagues many branches of science, "sensing of phage-triggered ion cascade", or SEPTIC.
That ill-fated choice paved the way for a watering-down of the audit report that plagues markets to this day.Even in the age of voluntary audits, accountants were rarely held accountable for their clients' sins.
But they have been conspicuously quiet on the affair because, experts suspect, many have skeletons in their own cupboards.A whitewash could discredit a broader effort to cure systemic corruption that plagues Mexico from the highest tiers of government to the lowest.
By the early 1970s visitors were making apocalyptic predictions of plagues and starving, rampaging mobs, and by the end of that decade Marxists were in charge.
Afghanistan at that time was not an ungoverned space, but a state sponsor of terrorism; indeed, al-Qaeda arguably became a terrorist sponsor of a state.Terrorism aside, what of other global plagues?
The greens' impulse to ban this thoroughly nasty pesticide is well-intentioned, but malaria still plagues hundreds of millions of the world's poorest people; and worse, it is on the rise.
