Sentence examples for scourge point from inspiring English sources

As Intern Aware, a group that has done more than anybody to fight this national scourge, point out, under employment law if you "work set hours, do set tasks and contribute value to an organisation" you are a worker and are entitled to a minimum wage.

One couldn't help but feel a sense of helplessness, but many of us resolved to fight this scourge from whatever vantage point we occupied.

But do critics who say they're a narcissistic scourge on society have a point?

Case in point: the latest scourge in mobile app clones is that of a game called "2048," a "clone of a clone of a clone," which also has many clones itself.

This Southern Baptist preacher's son was the Shiva-esque scourge of society, but he pointed his dog muck-smeared stick at his own failings too – his love of hardcore animal pornography, his fear of certain smells.

Hopefully this will combat the scourge of zoom noise proliferating our point-and-shoot videos.

In it he proclaims the depredations of the "Danes" (who were, at that point, primarily Norwegian invaders) a scourge from God to lash the English for their sins.

And, like present-day old-media scourges of the blogosphere, they had a point.

As Kaufman points out, forgery is a scourge of the sports memorabilia industry–and there are some talented fakers out there.

The far larger competing crowds were marred, as the Brothers were quick to point out, by sexual assaults, a scourge of demonstrations since the 2011 revolution.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 246.79 points, or 1.92percentt, after another familiar scourge — losses stemming from subprime mortgage loans — struck two prominent players in the financial industry.