Even people who had trouble understanding that shutting down the government before Christmas would be politically damaging quickly grasped that doubling the price of breakfast would.The bill passed with some pretend reforms to the food-stamps programme designed to be spouted in election campaigns, such as ending the supposed scourge of millionaires receiving the benefit.
At a time when he was being cast as the scourge of the Knicks, Thomas received his greatest endorsement, from the parent of a potential recruit.
There were few tears shed among America's celebrity community today after news broke that Perez Hilton, scourge of the famous, had received a pugilistic dose of his own medicine.
Leafing through a pile of newspaper clippings brought by an aide, Judge Joel Pisano noted the editorial scourging that Mr. Milan had received in the news media, as well as the pending state takeover of the city's fiscally prostrate government by state regulators.
But most of all, Mr. Cuomo focused on the scourge of joblessness, a message that was warmly received by legislators and others at the conference, held at the Conrad San Juan Condado Plaza.
Only disloyalty and unkindness receive the scourge of the hamlet's collective conscience.
Since 1988, when he received his doctorate from Princeton with a thesis that debunked the then-popular claim that many Palestinian Arabs were not in fact longtime natives but immigrants like the Zionists, he has been a scourge of pro-Israel scholarship.
Although the theme of this first World Malaria Day is "Malaria, a disease without boarders" with the slogan: "Fight malaria, invest in the future", the "Malaria torch" that was received by the Nigerian Minister of Health, Dr. Hassan Lawal today seem to symbolize that working together in synergy would help conquer the scourge of malaria.
Sentencing depended on the judgment of the presiding official as to the relative "worth" (dignitas) of the defendant: an honestior could pay a fine when convicted of a crime for which an humilior might receive a scourging.
Drug scourges have come and gone.
