Sentence examples for scourges because of from inspiring English sources

And the millions of people now free from those scourges because of vaccines.

Unlike the vast majority of beers, which are fermented with yeasts selected by brewers to produce a set of desirable characteristics, these brews were fermented with brettanomyces, a type of yeast that can be unpredictable but is best known as a scourge of wines because of the funky, sweaty, unwanted flavors it can produce.

Widespread use of the drugs has promoted the development of bacteria that have become the scourge of hospitals because they can resist many different kinds of antibiotic.

Bottled water is a scourge of environmentalists because it leaves behind mountains of nondegradable plastic bottles.

However, there have recently been outbreaks of some of these old scourges, partly because some parents have been limiting vaccine use.

Leprosy is one of the classic scourges of ancient times.

Smallpox was beyond a doubt one of the greatest scourges of humanity.

— a scourge to many employers because of its aggressive tactics — spend millions of dollars battling not business, but another union.

The inquiry also highlighted the scourge of ice in the state, which it ranked as "the biggest threat to Queensland" because of its prevalence and consequences.

It seems like a natural convergence: Iranians know well the scourge of poison gas because they were the victims of Iraq's chemical weapons use during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war.

A great portion of the Pendleton population is there because of the scourge of drugs, or, if you'd prefer, the scourge of the drug war.