Sentence examples for public scourge from inspiring English sources

In "The Possibility of an Island," Daniel describes his rise to fame as an adored public scourge who titillates the French (and later, international) middle classes with his scorchingly honest monologues.

Asked what precipitated his initial shift from mainstream public figure to more marginal public scourge, Mr. Burg pointed to a process that began in 2001 when he ran for leadership of the Labor Party and lost in a tight race that he says was stolen from him through back-room deals.

Later, Mr. Libby said, he recalled joking at a White House meeting with Marc Grossman, a State Department official involved in the earlier contretemps, about the trip to Niger by Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former ambassador who was emerging as a public scourge of the Bush administration.

He's obsessed with the central couple, especially after administering a grisly public "scourging" during which Jamie refuses to cry out even as his back is reduced to bloody strips.

Introduction: The trauma of traffic accidents and particularly cranial trauma are, due to their frequency and severe consequences in both the short and long term, a real public health scourge on a global scale.

Syphilis has become a major public health scourge in many regions of southern China.

Over and above the commercial and business interests, the project's success has given great satisfaction to SIIL for its contribution in helping to vanquish an important public health scourge in resource-poor countries.

Richard Tren, director of the nonprofit organization Africa Fighting Malaria, insists that the ban will prompt many nations on that continent to abandon their use of pesticides that are effectively and safely managing a public health scourge.

• Most public health scourges have a brutal way of holding down the associated medical cost: they kill people.

Over the past decade, governments and institutions the world over have spent roughly $9 billion annually to combat public health scourges such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, and waterborne illnesses.

At N.Y.U. last week, new students were introduced to the "four pillars" of the new curriculum: diabetes, colon cancer, tuberculosis and heart disease, emblematic public health scourges of the 21st century.