Sentence examples for rather than afflicting from inspiring English sources

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(I have sometimes thought that Craig Brown's parodies in Private Eye spend too much time attacking the weak, rather than afflicting the comfortable; that there was something snobbish about them; yet here he is very well represented, and his assault on Craig Raine's History: The Home Movie eased my own PTSD acquired as a result of having to read and review that ballsaching work).

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The weakness, particularly in the global services units, appears to be company-specific, rather than a malaise afflicting the whole sector, Bernstein Research's senior analyst argued.

Her latest novel, "The Gravedigger's Daughter," springs to life when its central character, Rebecca Schwart, becomes pedestrianly shrewd rather than remaining superhumanly afflicted.

His broader agenda consists entirely of afflicting Democrats rather than passing legislation.

Betonsyge, or concrete illness, is something that traditionally afflicts bridges rather than waspish attackers.

It was, it seemed to me, the right way to view the autocracy, for of course this domineering man would die, and likely sooner rather than later — he was seriously afflicted with heart disease, possibly caused by diabetes, and had undergone at least one bypass operation.

Baldwin was nothing but heroic in the face of his debilitating leprosy, and he led military campaigns against Saladin even while still underaged; William tends to gloss over campaigns where Baldwin was not actually in charge, preferring to direct his praise towards the afflicted king rather than subordinate commanders.

For there is nothing in the picture of the woman's face during a spasm of pain to show that she is afflicted with cancer rather than with menstrual cramps, or in the picture of the embrace with her daughter to indicate that she is going to die rather than leave for a holiday, or even in the pictures of the corpse to make one see that this is real rather than a piece of theatre.

As an example of human factor terminology, in an area commonly afflicted by flooding, rather than stating that the incidence of floods is 21% per lifetime, it is better to state that one of every five persons will be affected by a flood in their lifetime.

Rather than have Dr. Jho remove the afflicted discs and fuse his vertebrae together, Angle opted for a less conventional surgery where Jho removed only the spurs and selected portions of the discs.

In MAPT mutation carriers, ALS tends to be a late manifestation in patients already afflicted with parkinsonism, rather than a separate entity [ 20, 37].

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