Sentence examples for scourge under control from inspiring English sources

Until the introduction of penicillin, Salvarsan or one of its modifications remained the standard treatment of syphilis and went far toward bringing this social and medical scourge under control.

"The more we focus on the causes and the known solutions, the faster we will bring this childhood scourge under control".

Scientists think new vaccines are the only way to get the world's major scourges under control; economists think healthier populations could also be a shot in the arm for development, especially in Africa.

Although there is as yet no known cure in the strict sense of the term for leprosy, the outlook has so changed that there are good grounds for believing that this age-old scourge can be brought under control and the victims of the disease saved from those dreaded mutilations that have given leprosy such a fearsome reputation throughout the ages.

When I was studying E at Oxford the emerging orthodoxy was monetarism, a belief that the control of the money supply was the primary way to keep inflation - that scourge of the 1970s - under control.

Tuberculosis, an ancient scourge once thought to have been brought under control, is today a re-emerging disease, fuelled by the rising tide of co-infection with HIV (especially in Africa) and by increasing resistance to TB medicines.

The hot dog competition, sponsored by Nathan's Famous, may be seen as an exercise in gluttony that can encourage poor eating habits and worsen the scourge of obesity that the city is trying get under control.

"This is a scourge on the country that we just have to make sure that we get under control and eliminate".

During the city's early decades, its citizens suffered through periodic epidemic scourges that killed thousands, but by the turn of the 20th century these outbreaks were largely under control, thanks mainly to improved sanitation, water filtration, and the reversed flow of the river away from the lake.

Budget under control.

That is under control.