Sentence examples for scourge for from inspiring English sources

Racist chants directed at black players continue to be a scourge for many European leagues.

Periods of high unemployment are a scourge for everybody, but minority groups and the less educated are hit particularly hard.

Plague has been a human scourge for more than twice as long as had previously been thought, new research suggests.

Crist has become a conservative scourge, for reasons he seems at a loss to understand and that in some ways have nothing to do with him.

At that first meeting, Putin was concerned to get his message out – that terrorism was as much a scourge for Russia as it was for Western countries.

The fees are a scourge for border-crossing Europeans and make up about 5 percent of a typical operator's annual revenue.

In "Take One Candle Light a Room," bloodlines have an emotional memory; the anguish of rape, the abuses of slavery — these sufferings wantonly flare up as scourges for subsequent generations.

Gibson and his screenwriter, Benedict Fitzgerald, selected and enhanced incidents from the four Gospels and collated them into a single, surpassingly violent narrative — the scourging, for instance, which is mentioned only in a few phrases in Matthew, Mark, and John, is drawn out to the point of excruciation and beyond.

It is a scourging for them, as surely as Jesus was scourged at the pillar.

The infection has for decades been one of the main scourges for the Norwegian sheep industry [ 4].

TBF has for decades been one of the main scourges for the sheep industry in the coastal areas of Norway [ 4].