Sentence examples for scourge which has from inspiring English sources
The opposition leader, Bill Shorten, wants a national summit called on the national scourge, which has killed an average of seven women a month in 2015.
In his hour-and-a-half judgment, Branston said football hooliganism and violence was a "scourge which has badly damaged this country's reputation abroad".
They are not increasing because of a scourge which has merely come out of the blue, but rather because the policies being implemented over recent years in the fields of structural adjustment and of reducing public spending have led to increasing inequalities and poverty and to increased deterioration of the environment and of the planet as a whole.
And he told the Deptford schoolchildren how his foundation was methodically working to get rid of every last case of polio, a scourge which had paralysed hundreds and thousands of people each year.
In 2004, he started a quiet campaign to drum up funding to fight the scourge, which had continued on a global track predicted to take it across the fertile crescent and into Southern Asia.
In one shot, Masekela laments the scourge of AIDS, which has become the new apartheid, wiping out generations of young black South Africans.
As the provincial police commissioner appointed seven veteran investigators to chase down the attackers, President Thabo Mbeki called on the nation "to confront this terrible scourge of crime, which has taken the lives of too many of our people, and does so every day".
"It certain does underscore what we were saying earlier today about the scourge of gun violence, which has become such a feature of our daily lives".
Historians will look back on our time and see that our civilization spends many millions of dollars educating people about the scourge of H.I.V. and AIDS, which has already taken 25 million lives and could infect 100 million people over the next eight years.
The second leading cause was the highly contagious norovirus, which has been a scourge on cruise ships and in prisons, dormitories and hospitals.
The forwarded e-mail message may come to rival the scourge of the cellphone camera shot, which has been employed to show many an athlete in a compromising position.
