Sentence examples for scourges of from inspiring English sources

He adds: "The great global scourges of modern life are always made worse by not knowing".

His vicars were not Proust and Eliot; they were H. L. Mencken and George Bernard Shaw, scourges of bourgeois smugness and Philistinism.

And, like present-day old-media scourges of the blogosphere, they had a point.

The scourges of poverty, malaria, Aids and TB have also taken their toll.

And corruption in narcotics units is one of the most common scourges of police departments.

We talked about fishing, and of unemployment and homelessness, twin scourges of today's native Hawaiians.

Despite the revised estimates, the epidemic remains one of the great scourges of mankind.

Today, pain, nausea and shortness of breath are properly recognized as scourges of the terminally ill, and are aggressively treated.

The Stroms, devoting themselves to the gifts of their children, dream of rearing them free of the scourges of race.

Reporters are crusaders after truth and scourges of corruption, for sure, but they are never squeaky clean.

Both candidates have portrayed themselves as scourges of white-collar wrongdoers.