Sentence examples for practice afflicts from inspiring English sources

But the Conservatives clearly don't value all inheritances, for all their noise about the evils of inheritance tax, a tithe on extreme wealth that in practice afflicts barely anyone.

Venting his irritation on Twitter led him to a conversation about the business practices afflicting Japan's tech sector with a fellow malcontent.

"It's a commonly accepted practice: one afflicts one's own body as a sign of identifying with the pain of another," said Balfour Brickner, rabbi emeritus at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in Manhattan.

Even worse, the same practice apparently afflicts the security forces.

This is the Guardian's shorter web version of that film It started out as a film about a practice that has afflicted tens of millions of women worldwide.

This practice continues for anyone afflicted, and Sasaki's statue at Children's Peace Monument is often besieged with origami.

It is a very warm day, 27C and quite humid and there seems no prospect of the action, which starts at 0700 BST, being disrupted by the rain that afflicted Friday practice.

But I also want to offer some "comfort" to the "afflicted" students (a practice Dunne also recommended).

Within this context, the presentation further explores the practice of exorcism, and how afflicted bodies were healed.

Third, the rule we propose would avoid some of the significant administrability and implementation problems that have afflicted the federal courts' practice in this area.

Toro Rosso's Daniil Kvyat was seventh, ahead of the McLarens of Kevin Magnussen and Jenson Button, who complained of uneven handling and expressed his frustration with a radio problem that had also afflicted him in first practice.