Sentence examples for some scourge from inspiring English sources

What the M.T.A. and Mayor Bloomberg should realize is that rats are not some scourge or blight upon the subway system, but part of an urban ecosystem.

Still, most people who have high hopes for the cameras probably aren't primarily concerned with wiping out some scourge of frivolous citizen complaints but, rather, with achieving justice for citizens like Eric Garner.

The new political season now starting in Moscow should answer a looming question: Is the new leader of Russia capable of recognizing that some scourges are essential to democratic practice and must be tolerated?

Mr. Eaton's artistic protest -- the buses represent the values the government buried when it put up the prison -- has turned him into a folk hero in some corners, a scourge in others.

Corsi is in some ways an unlikely scourge of the left.

His insistence on precise thinking and scientific tough-mindedness made him a scourge to some and a role model to many others.

LinkedIn's emails, with their pervasive phrase "I'd like you to join my professional network", may seem like a scourge to some.

The result, Lululemon, ushered in a new era: the decline of jeans, the rise of spandex, and the practice — some might argue the scourge — of women going about their day dressed for an Ashtanga class.

As hinted at before, I came from a family that considered video games a scourge from some malevolent planet, not unlike like Mario's Goombas or Metroid's Space Pirates.

But the most volatile and in some ways most frightening scourge of trees at the moment is Sudden Oak Death, which has killed tens of thousands of oaks in coastal California in just a few years.

His father, the chief justice, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, has long enjoyed hero status among many Pakistanis as the freewheeling scourge of some of the country's most powerful people and institutions.