Sentence examples for slightly afflicted from inspiring English sources

Can I put you in touch?" If a journalist's mission is to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted, a good PR person makes the comfortable look slightly afflicted in order to give the journalist a better story.

Higher numbers of travellers may temporarily be admitted from regions which are not or only slightly afflicted by the pandemic, but this strategy may be too difficult to implement because it would require the travel history of each arriving traveler to be verified.

It is, if you like, a plan to comfort the afflicted while (slightly) afflicting the comfortable.

During the 1980s and '90s, pathological gambling was recognized by medical authorities in several countries as a cognitive disorder that afflicts slightly more than 1 percent of the population, and various treatment and therapy programs were developed to deal with the problem.

But I laughed at the scenes at Belt Tighteners, a self-flagellating support community where confessions of cake-centred recidivism were met loudly with the group's excellent mantra: 'It's not OK!' We shouldn't be mocking the afflicted, but I was slightly hungry for more.

Full recovery takes place in slightly more than half of the reported clinical cases, while slightly less than half of the patients are afflicted with residual sequelae.

These symptoms are often mild in effect, and the life span of persons afflicted with type 1 is only slightly reduced on average.

(A slightly more generous interpretation might be that the city is afflicted with an urban variety of multiple-personality disorder).

Yet Wilbur's formal poetry never has the slightly defensive tone that afflicts many writers of formal verse in this era of free verse.

Circulation among the country's largest daily newspapers increased slightly during the fall and winter, helping slow the trend of declining circulation that has afflicted the industry for 16 years, according to the latest report from the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

A longtime smoker afflicted with lung cancer won the largest ever individual civil award against a tobacco company, slightly more than $3 billion from Philip Morris.