Sentence examples for slightly afflicting from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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.

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

Ms. Somerville doggedly dropped off the mail in a routine that was slightly different for the occasional salutes and sympathy she heard customers offer about the anthrax deaths and disease afflicting some postal workers.

He saw that same phenomenon afflicting Paris.

It is the fungus afflicting them.

In his criticism, he claimed that: "Traditionally, satire has comforted the afflicted while afflicting the comfortable".

"Afflicting the comfortable, blog style".

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.

And it seeks to justify this with paid research that is sometimes only slightly better than the "paid news" that afflicts a lot of private media.