Sentence examples for scourge of a from inspiring English sources

These former eccentrics have also become the scourge of a major New York industry, the fur trade.

The United Palace was also untouched by a scourge of a different kind, one that upset cineastes: the multiplexing of theaters.

If the night before Slimani had been the scourge of a fraudulent social order, today she was doing what she could to improve it from within.

Coe's version of the rightwing press is embodied by Josephine Winshaw-Eaves, scourge of "a malignant, amorphous monster called the 'left-liberal establishment'".

And he tweeted: "Now that I've had first hand exp with the scourge of a disease, I'm even more pained at how little care sick west Africans are receiving".

Having been the scourge of a generation of politicians, having remained outspoken throughout the years of violence, suffering threats from every side, he is now sufficiently part of the establishment to have his self-caricature put on a stamp.

"We have set loose a scourge of loneliness and isolation that we are still afraid to acknowledge as the distinct social dysfunction of our age of individualism, just as crushing conformity was the characteristic scourge of an era of cohesion and national unity," Levin writes.

The disease, macular degeneration, has become a modern scourge of an aging population.

Most of what follows in Kenji Mizoguchi's justly legendary 1952 drama of political and intimate corruption tells, in flashback, the story of the scourging of a pure soul.

He is the scourge of ramblers, a ruthless property baron who regards his tenants as "filth" and his women as chattels.

Mobile homes became the scourge of many a region.