Sentence examples for scourges on from inspiring English sources

For a year and a half, Litton's scourges on LetsRun had struggled to pinpoint the specifics of his methodology.

Dr. Condon said the story line that jellyfish were taking over the oceans started with a paper published in the journal Science in 2001 predicting a series of human-induced scourges on the world's oceans.

Most of the new money went on fighting the scourges on the list: HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and maternal and infant mortality.The growth in health-care aid has now slowed to less than half the rate of the early 2000s.

By Blue Chevigny NEW YORK, USA, 1 November, 2006 – Nearly 400 young people gathered at UN headquarters this week for the Global Youth Leadership Summit, working together to help breathe life into the Millennium Development Goals – and returning to their countries with revitalized plans to address some of the worst scourges on the planet.

It's a scourge on our society.

A: I think that domestic violence is a phenomenally serious scourge on our society.

A deputy mayor under Rudolph W. Giuliani called it "a scourge on the neighborhood by anyone's reckoning".

Barcelona's vice president greeted the news by declaring Mourinho a scourge on Spain.

They have been a scourge on the Uganda and that entire region, eastern Africa.

"Terrorism and appalling crimes such as these are a scourge on our world.

"I think they truly think drugs are a scourge on society," the diplomat said.