Sentence examples for that scourges from inspiring English sources

The breakdown of the country's public health infrastructure -- including clean water supplies, surveillance teams, infectious disease laboratories and vaccination programs -- means that scourges like AIDS, diphtheria, typhoid fever and drug-resistant tuberculosis (which is particularly lethal and exportable) are also on the rise.

The comfort problem, that scourge of middle-aged fun.

And then, in 1950, that scourge of the sea arrived: the throwaway polythene bag.

Heroin – that scourge and emblem of the 1990s – never really went away.

There is no trace of chintz, that scourge of the country house hotel.

Farage, that scourge of the metropolitan elite, could not be reached because he was lunching at the Ivy – and was said to be "only on his first bottle".

But surely these saddle-style perches could increase that scourge of the air traveller, deep vein thrombosis?

When I was studying E at Oxford the emerging orthodoxy was monetarism, a belief that the control of the money supply was the primary way to keep inflation - that scourge of the 1970s - under control.

Yes, you held off Ebola, but what have you done to end that scourge known as the Kardashians?

And probably till the day I die, these men and I will never be able to truly understand that beauty, that scourge, that ultimate salvation.

Advocates for the victims of sexual abuse by priests say he has not done enough to end that scourge and punish bishops who turned a blind eye to it.