Sentence examples for real scourge from inspiring English sources

Once you discount crime, poverty, ailing school systems and public corruption, parking is the real scourge of urban life.

The justice minister Lord Faulks said: "Nuisance calls are a real scourge to households, and people have simply had enough.

Alcohol is a real scourge on Australian society and especially so in the Indigenous population but the specialist made the sensible point that a fundamental erroneous assumption about a patient can have serious downstream consequences, in this instance, excluding "a drinker" from a potential liver transplant.

"Hollywood greed is behind the rush to portray my client, and the movie missed the real scourge created in my client's case, the real menace to Boston during that time and in other mob cases around the country – the federal government's complicity in each and every one of those murders with the top echelon informant programme".

Roadside and suicide bombs are the real scourge in Iraq, not anything we can land heavy lumber on.

Still, I will redirect my angry impulses when they are inevitably triggered toward what I view as the real scourge: anger itself.

It would also free up resources for drug education, which is practically nonexistent today, and for tackling the real scourges of trafficking and addiction.

We may have taken against the grey squirrel (which incidentally loves our native broadleaved woodlands, while the native red squirrel is a denizen of foreign conifer plantations); but the real mammalian scourge is the red deer, which is British through and through.

Of course, the more serious commentary would go on to explain, loneliness is a real and diagnosable scourge.

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.

But bedbugs, which have become the latest scourge on real estate, are even making an appearance at this year's Halloween party.