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.
New Yorkers first suffered an outbreak of West Nile virus in 1999, a new scourge for the city, which is now an annual threat.
Sentencing depended on the judgment of the presiding official as to the relative "worth" (dignitas) of the defendant: an honestior could pay a fine when convicted of a crime for which an humilior might receive a scourging.
"Help us to overcome the scourge of hunger, aggravated by conflicts and by the immense wastefulness for which we are often responsible," Pope Francis prayed.
Having battled Ebola, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, West Nile virus and other scourges, they remain vigilant against any outbreak that could morph into the "Big One" — a deadly and highly transmissible new pathogen for which the public has no natural immunity.
The finding could help explain why cowbirds are such a scourge for forest-dwelling songbirds, which run themselves ragged trying to feed baby cowbirds.
The chief executive of Acoss, Dr Cassandra Goldie, said the findings were "deeply disturbing and highlight the need for a national plan to tackle the scourge of poverty which diminishes us all in one of the wealthiest countries in the world".
In the Sahel region and southern Africa, drought has exacerbated problems for millions of children already left vulnerable by the scourge of HIV/AIDS, which continues to decimate families across the continent.
At the Russian event, Mr. Ren condemned the global scourge of cybercrime, which he said had also been aimed at Huawei, and appealed for international solutions.
Malawi has not been spared this scourge, which currently afflicts about 12percentt of its people.
