Sentence examples for scourge in the form from inspiring English sources

The idea of an obesity/diabetes epidemic therefore crystallizes broader assumptions about the dangerousness of fat and the idea that poor health is simply the result of changeable, risky behaviors which in turn, have created another potentially more deadly scourge in the form of a 'diabesity' epidemic.

Black America however, unbeknownst to them at the time, were about to have visited upon them the worst scourge yet in the form of the crack epidemic.

Beyond the bites and the itching, the bother and the expense, victims of the nation's most recent plague are finding that an invisible scourge awaits them in the form of bedbug stigma.

In E.D. Spielberg will treat erectile dysfunction as the monster that it really is, providing a countervailing force of good in the form of the superhero, E.D. created to meet the challenge of the scourge.

Type 2 diabetes is a scourge in the Valley.

Another scourge in the region, she added, was foul-smelling contaminated water.

This highly fatal disease had long been a scourge in the United States, especially in port cities. Lack of scientific understanding fueled these outbreaks.

During National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, we renew our commitment to ending this scourge in all its forms.

Moreover, when European populations were analyzed that reportedly suffered Typhoid scourges in the past, it was found that they showed higher frequencies for the mutated allele one to two generations after the scourge [ 22].

The nonprofit group Housing and Services Inc. bought the scourge in 1993 with the goal of providing affordable housing for people with AIDS.

Carjacking, a scourge in Newark in the 1990s, reappeared with a vengeance last year.