Even on the periphery, war afflicts men with aching joints, ringing ears and psychological damage.
It very quickly turned into a murderous and destructive terrorist war afflicting Central America, southern Africa, and the Middle East, with grim repercussions to the present, even leading to condemnation of the United States by the World Court (which Washington dismissed).
Its long-suffering people are too frequently caught in the crossfire of rampaging wars, afflicted in their millions with AIDS and other desperate diseases, preyed upon by greedy despots and prevented by corrupt leaders and bureaucracies from obtaining basic schooling, medical attention and access to economic opportunity.
In the 1st century bce, Spain was involved in the civil wars afflicting the Roman world.
A4 Sudan Not Getting Pledged Aid The United Nations' top relief official said the world is failing to provide promised aid to the people of southern Sudan, putting at risk a peace agreement that was hailed as a model for resolving ethnic wars afflicting Africa.
American physician and author S. Weir Mitchell observed Civil War soldiers afflicted with causalgia (constant burning pain; later known as complex regional pain syndrome), phantom limb pain, and other painful conditions long after their original wounds had healed.
Although drought, famine, poverty, and war have afflicted Sudan for decades, Sudanese leaders in public health have a vision of a better future.
But ethnic civil wars have afflicted the country for decades, and the conflicts raise questions about whether the demands of ethnic minorities like the Kachin will be given serious consideration by the evolving ethnic Burmese-dominated government.
Compared to many other English towns and cities, Reading suffered little physical damage during either of the two World Wars that afflicted the 20th century, although many citizens were killed or injured in the conflicts.
("Degrees of Debt" series, front page, Dec. 14) rightly explicates the spending war that afflicts universities, both public and private, across the country.
