Sentence examples for social scourge from inspiring English sources

Much ink has been spilled on the evils of gambling as a social scourge.

This social scourge can be seen in urban centers, and in rural outposts.

Methamphetamine use, as in many other rural states, has become a social scourge.

Greater progressivity would reduce rising income inequality, and with it, inequality of opportunity that is both an economic and social scourge.

Indeed, despite tabloid headlines about a feckless underclass intent on milking the benefits system, tax evasion is a far bigger social scourge than fraudulent benefit claims.

Jean-Claude Jean-Claude Junckerof the Europresidentissiof's "Eurogroup" of finance ministhes, rEuropean Commissionssive pay a "social scourge" and demanded action.

"If these social scourges can affect everyone indiscriminately, the weakest groups are those who most easily fall victim to new forms of slavery.

Mr. Ashe's life was linked to two of the great social scourges of his day: racism and AIDS, the disease that led to his death last weekend.

You might think editors who have set themselves the commendable task of marketing poetry to children in an exciting, approachable way would also be averse to such social scourges as gender stereotyping.

His brief review of a biography of Jesse James decisively dismisses "what both contemporaries and later commentators have chosen to see in Jesse James -- Robin Hood, social bandit, scourge of capitalism" -- and reveals him for the murderous ex-Confederate that he was.

We as a school can offer guidance and try to build up any student who has been injured by the social networking scourge, but please insist the authorities get involved.