Sentence examples for scourge in which from inspiring English sources

South Africa has 1,300 peacekeepers in Burundi and 1,500 in Congo; the country is a fairly big troop contributor to the United Nations, but is running short of soldiers not infected with HIV/AIDS (a scourge in which Mr Mbeki, as it happens, does not believe).

In the same year, the rough-hewn, obscure verses of The Scourge of Villanie, in which Marston referred to himself as a "barking satirist," were widely acclaimed.

The pointed exchange between Bush and Putin delivered a sour note ahead of the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Europe from the genocidal scourge of Nazism in which the United States and the Soviet Union were partners.

There is also, in South Africa, the scourge of "corrective rape," in which men believe that raping lesbians and gay men will "cure" them of their sexual orientation.

There is an online chat group on Douban called "Fumu Jie Huohai" ["The Scourge of Studious Parents"], in which group members, mostly those born in the eighties, blame their parents for their own unhappiness or emotional trauma….

The scourge of 24-hour news, in which stuff that isn't important gets its own countdown clock, is now doing to the weather what it did to public affairs and the stock market.

In 1930 Lewis caused a furor in literary London with a satirical novel, The Apes of God, in which he scourged wealthy dilettantes.

It has less in common with Clint Eastwood's "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters from Iwo Jima" (2006), say, than with Gibson's own "The Passion of the Christ" (2004), in which the scourging of Jesus goes on and on, until you can scarcely look, and then goes on again.

Massive poverty and inequality are terrible scourges of our times - times in which the world also boasts breathtaking advances in science, technology, industry and wealth accumulation.

616/617: Some time after Mellitus and Justus depart, Laurence, the archbishop of Canterbury, plans to leave for Francia but has a vision in which St Peter scourges him.

Hale's most arresting character is not Titian but Aretino, the subject of an extraordinary portrait in which Titian captures the crimson-robed "scourge of princes" (the poet Ariosto's term) in all his robustness.