Sentence examples similar to s a plague from inspiring English sources

I would like to know how many there were 150 years ago — back in the time before time — because in the late 1880's and early 1890's, a plague called rinderpest swept across sub-Saharan Africa.

But Miller's is a plague of pleasures, free of irony if not obsession.

Atwood's flood is a plague created by a brilliant geneticist playing God, a man called Crake who tries to wipe out all the humans on Earth while creating a better species.

A Circuit Court judge has called inequitable conduct's "opportunistic litigation" a "plague" on the patent system.

Ernest Drucker's "A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America" makes the case that talk of an epidemic of imprisonment is more than a metaphor, and that what we are enduring is really best understood through the model of a classic runaway plague rather than as the consequence of rational decisions.

Maureen Dowd adds her voice to those decrying the president's appointment of sycophants ("A Plague of Toadies," column, Nov. 18).

Why all the flag-waving?In this section Guess who's coming to dinner True Brits Morpeth's grouse A plague on all your houses Charging by satellite Used spectrum, anybody?

All I know is that one must do one's best not to be a plague victim..

— Jia Tolentino I've been reading and rereading David France's brilliant "How to Survive a Plague".

Recently, Simon Rattle came to town to lead the première of Sofia Gubaidulina's "Feast During a Plague," which had the power of a prophetic utterance.

It was France's How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed Aids that Peter Bazalgette's panel chose as their winner.