Sentence examples for scourge means from inspiring English sources

But the decline of one scourge means that people are living long enough to fall sick in other ways.

The head of the Indonesia Investment Coordinating Board, Gita Wirjawan, said that such change, as well as the efforts against another Indonesian scourge, corruption, meant the path would soon be cleared for greater investment in infrastructure and industry.

The breakdown of the country's public health infrastructure -- including clean water supplies, surveillance teams, infectious disease laboratories and vaccination programs -- means that scourges like AIDS, diphtheria, typhoid fever and drug-resistant tuberculosis (which is particularly lethal and exportable) are also on the rise.

Formspring (one of the newest internet scourges, a site meant simply to post cruel things about people anonymously) wasn't even in someone's mind.

Others say the finding means that wiping scourges from the planet may no longer be possible if the agent can simply be recreated.

I mean, PIRATES, the scourge of the civilized world in 2008.

This would mean ending the scourge of gerrymandering in congressional districts, employing instead a "fair representation" process that would use multi-seat districts and ranked choice voting.

Prevention is by far the most effective means to address the scourge of invasive species.

Surely the richest country on the planet can find the means to fight this scourge.

At the time, Mr. Blair was under heavy pressure to order mass vaccination as a means of curbing a scourge that seemed to be slipping beyond control in counties like Cumbria and like Devon in the south-west.

"[The prosecution of] moral crimes is something that is a scourge for women in Afghanistan, it means that girls and women who are victims … are further victimised by the state," he said.