Sentence examples for scourge spread from inspiring English sources

The lawsuit, which the advocates said they would file in Federal District Court in Manhattan on Wednesday morning, will be the strongest action they have taken in pressing the United Nations to acknowledge at least some culpability for the outbreak of cholera, a highly contagious scourge spread through human feces that had been largely absent from Haiti for 100 years.

As the scourge spread across time zones from Australia to Europe, Mr. Cheng was already writing an antidote, and by the end of the day, Ms. Soriano was disseminating instructions to afflicted Trend Micro customers around the world on how to apply it.

The new data may help scientists piece together how the scourge spread from Egypt as far north as present-day Germany.

But news accounts of the scourge have spread widely, said Frank Michel, spokesman for Mayor Bill White.

His ragtag minimum-wage squad is determined to keep the zombies out, especially once Ana figures out that the life-free scourge is spread from a zombie bite.

Instead of doing the right thing, the "clean players," steeped in baseball's culture of loyalty, secrecy and timidity, allowed the steroid scourge to spread so widely that now everyone is suspected of having been infected at one time or another.

The medical center is also using modern technology to battle an old scourge: the spread of infections.

This recommendation is a potential way of reducing the scourge and spread of sexually transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDS and also improving the reproductive health challenges associated with unplanned pregnancy in the HIV infected.

Clearly, the days when the nation's 280 million residents were virtually defenseless against a scourge that spreads easily and kills some 30percentt of its victims are over.

In both places, the most pervasive violent crime is extortion, a scourge that has spread across Latin America.A few examples suffice to show how criminals have turned this twist of the piratical "your money or your life" into a brutal fact of modern life.

The rapidly spreading scourge was given several names, including "Great Pox" and "French disease," the latter after invading French soldiers either brought the infection to Italy or caught it from the Italians.