Sentence examples for that was afflicting from inspiring English sources

The villagers blamed the woman, 63-year-old Purni Orang, for an illness that was afflicting the settlement, according to the BBC.

And while she had little interest in the domestic aspects of womanhood — the drudgery that was afflicting American women with Betty Friedan's "problem with no name" — she exalted her own vision of the feminine mystique.

What kept them from curing this disease that was afflicting a million people?

For example, in May 1978 Anita Bryant, Florida orange juice spokeswoman and chief organizer of the so-called "Save Our Children" campaign to overturn an LGBT-rights ordinance in Dade County, called homosexuals "human garbage" and blamed their supposedly sinful behavior for a drought that was afflicting California.

To showcase how the method works a hypothetical example of its application is given for the case of Rikuzentakata, a city on the coast of Tohoku in Japan that was afflicted by the 2011 tsunami.

Al had an infection on the first phalanx on the third toe that was afflicted by an involucrum.

Medical eponyms are diseases, syndromes, signs or symptoms that are named after someone, often the physician or person that first described or discovered it, or a patient that was afflicted with it.

And why shouldn't they share in the pain that is afflicting so many other Americans?

But the prominence of the Blue Devils cannot disguise the malaise that is afflicting the other teams in the league.

Other deep underlying problems that are afflicting the U.S. economy, such as stagnant wage growth and rising inequality, remain unresolved.

LONDON – Bulgaria's caretaker government will introduce a plan on Monday to try to tackle an epidemic of suicides that is afflicting the impoverished East European nation.