Sentence examples for that may afflict from inspiring English sources

Whatever the economic vicissitudes that may afflict the world of luxury, some parts of the empire are bound to be making money.Mr Arnault's formula is not unique; he has simply developed it more highly than his closest competitors have done.

As I watched the marchers pass through the old imperial centre of London, by Parliament, the Treasury, Downing Street and into Pall Mall's clubland, I confess I caught a whiff of failure, a smell that could grow into a stink that may afflict the nostrils of the whole country.

Early in this book about a disorder that may afflict one child in every five in America, the author dispels two widely held beliefs: that children with dyslexia are prone to seeing letters or words backward, and that the problem is linked to intelligence.

The firm is careful to point out that this is not a wholesale anti-ageing therapy, but rather (it hopes) a new way of tackling degenerative diseases that may afflict both young and old, such as diabetes, in which certain cells have ceased to function.

And alcohol may worsen or cause certain medical conditions that may afflict seniors, such as osteoporosis, stroke, memory loss and high blood pressure.

In a legal settlement signed Wednesday with federal officials following lengthy negotiations, the 600,000-acre district secured a water supply for its members' almond and pistachio trees and other crops in perpetuity, immunizing it from many of the cutbacks that may afflict other water users as climate change and other conditions reduce the reliability of California's overall water supply.

The bottom line on Kennedy's performance that October nearly a half century ago has been well stated by historian Robert Dallek as "an imperishable example of how one man prevented a catastrophe that may yet afflict the world".

There could also be signs of genetic diseases that may have afflicted the Yayoi, Inoue adds.

But as the criminal case against the two officers advances, defense lawyers have begun using the van driver's own words to argue that whatever discrimination problems may afflict the state police force, the shooting was justified because the troopers believed their lives were in danger when the van accelerated toward them.

FOR a while after seeing the movie "Babe," I couldn't eat bacon with my usual zest, and I'm worried that something of the sort may afflict me after reading this book.

The regulations, issued after years of discussions among officials and prisoner advocacy groups, address a problem that a new government study finds may afflict one out of every 10 prisoners, more than twice as many as suggested by an earlier survey.