Sentence examples for serious scourge from inspiring English sources

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

Together we can and must win this war against the most serious scourge humankind has faced in centuries.

These include growing social problems and, in particular, the serious scourge of unemployment, citizen participation in Community life and decision making and whether or not to apply the principles of Community cohesion and solidarity which are enshrined in the Treaty.

It's the first time the disease, one of the most serious scourges of citrus, has been reported in the state.

While scourges such as measles, polio, typhus, and even smallpox no longer posed a serious threat in the West by 1967, globalization has brought new viruses into wide exposure, some of them as dangerous as some that we have previously seen.

Today, a growing number of experts consider Internet addiction to be a serious and growing scourge.

Crime Records portrayed Hoover as the dauntless scourge of serious crime.

Ephraim Mirvis said the decision "yet again failed to show" that the party was "sufficiently serious about tackling the scourge of anti-Semitism".

If we are serious about ending the scourge of domestic violence in this country, as we should be, we must use every tool at our disposal.

Harvey Smith has never been too bothered with the strictures of orthodoxy but he does seem increasingly serious about succeeding the late Ginger McCain as incorrigible scourge of the modern British "wimp".

The scourge of suicides among American troops in Iraq is a serious and seriously underreported problem.