Sentence examples for scourges plaguing from inspiring English sources

Domestic violence is one of many scourges plaguing the N.F.L., but, unlike the abuse of drugs or steroids, punishment for the abuse of women is not neatly outlined in the league's many policies and manuals.

He has concluded three early-stage clinical trials using potatoes bearing vaccines against hepatitis B, E. coli and the Norwalk virus, the intestinal scourge currently plaguing cruise ships.

As it stands, child marriage continues to be a scourge that plagues roughly fifteen million girls each year.

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Arpaio, the sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, said law enforcement officers alone cannot battle the scourge of violence plaguing the country.

For months, Donald Trump has been fueling panic about Chicago's crime rate, repeatedly threatening to use his power as president to "send in" federal troops to deal with the scourge of homicides plaguing the city.

Oscar's living in that can to protest the scourge of gentrification that's plaguing Sesame Street, from Orange Hill all the way to Green Point.

Many of his friends died from bouts of malaria, a scourge that has plagued this agrarian society.

But the Guinea worm campaign underscores that a determined effort, with local people playing a central role, can overcome a scourge that has plagued humanity for thousands of years.

Despite their collective efficiency and order, beehives are often plagued by scourges that would rival a medieval city.

Responsibility was plaguing.

The metro's consultants are led by a consortium from Japan (whose government has financed two-thirds of the metro's cost through a soft loan); the signalling and fare-collection systems are French, the rolling-stock Korean.The second is an emphasis on avoiding the scourge that plagues so many Indian public-sector ventures: corruption.