Sentence examples for scourge allowing from inspiring English sources

Rather than sheer stupidity, I suspect the answer is blind arrogance: they fondly imagine that more vulnerable competitors will succumb to the current financial scourge, allowing the stronger, brighter dinosaurs (that is, themselves) to slither from their bunkers and garner whatever resources remain.

In the popular imagination, the Viking ship was the scourge of the North Sea, allowing its crew to sack and pillage the British Isles and Normandy.

People blame this year's scourge on climate change: the past year has been unusually warm, allowing a high number of hornets to survive the winter.

It's obvious that this minor shut-down won't effect us all in the long term, but feel free to thank the Internet gods for allowing you at least a brief respite from this horrible scourge.

For too long, the self-righteous Fehr has given critics the back of his hand while Selig (and believe me, I took my share of melancholic calls over the years from the otherwise likable commissioner after writing that management had plenty to explain) insisted that the good baseball folks in New York and Milwaukee would never have voluntarily allowed the scourge to reach the level it did.

Instead of doing the right thing, the "clean players," steeped in baseball's culture of loyalty, secrecy and timidity, allowed the steroid scourge to spread so widely that now everyone is suspected of having been infected at one time or another.

The minority opinions are not allowed to argue!" Now this scourge of minority rights was locked in the soundproof cage, along with Bayoumi and all the rest.

What allows China to escape this scourge is not so much authoritarianism as such, but its ability to plan long-term and mobilize the political and economic resources to realize those plans.

They didn't recognize how the sports drug landscape had changed, how destructive and divisive the new scourge of pharmacology would become when players were allowed to alter the terms of competition.

Ultimately, these research efforts could provide the advantage we need in the struggle with TB and finally allow us to put this ancient scourge to rest.

"This would mean that young people turning 15 this year would never legally be allowed to smoke – providing a glide path to end the scourge of cigarettes," Dunn said.