Sentence examples for terrible scourge from inspiring English sources

Unemployment is a terrible scourge across much of the Western world.

Killing drug dealers supposedly will wipe out this terrible scourge and save a generation.

We need to do everything we can to understand and counteract this terrible scourge.

Hammond said during a break that Ebola was "a terrible scourge".

Mr Justice Holman said the woman's description showed what a "terrible scourge" female genital mutilation was.

Looting is a terrible scourge, and museums must be held to the highest ethical standards so they don't unwittingly abet it.

Massive poverty and inequality are terrible scourges of our times - times in which the world also boasts breathtaking advances in science, technology, industry and wealth accumulation.

Nevertheless, he played a key role in the victory in the war against viral diseases such as rubella and polio, an achievement that freed us from truly terrible scourges.

By the lamp that night I finish John Grady Cole's terrible scourging at the hands of life and come to McCarthy ruminating harshly on existence in this startling passage: He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret.

Message to the Live 8 concert in Edinburgh, July 2005: "Massive poverty and obscene inequality are such terrible scourges of our times.

It remains a terrible, global scourge.