Sentence examples for was not afflicted from inspiring English sources

Britain, however, was not afflicted with bombings as other countries were.

Knowledge of the outside world was not a virtue and Chonghou was not afflicted with it.

Home Retail's finance director, Richard Ashton, said Homebase was not afflicted by the same problems because its customers did not have the same opportunity to shop locally.

Larkin, it will be noted, was not afflicted with our modern anxiety about interfering with fragile ecosystems; for him, tending the lawn was biological warfare.

I am not afflicted by optimism or pessimism.

He is not afflicted with presenteritis; nothing is beneath his dignity.

They are not afflicted with the G.O.P. death wish that would make them masters of a wasteland.

The overwhelming majority of voters are not afflicted by what Freud called "the narcissism of small differences".

Only it's more fun, since we're not afflicted with the too-close-for-comfort trauma and embarrassment of our real parents' sexual lives.

The lowest acceptance rate, 87.4 percent, involved plaintiffs who stood to get only a few thousand dollars because they were not afflicted with a qualifying illness under the settlement yet feared falling ill in the future.

They are thought to be primarily interested in the music-publishing part of the business, which is not afflicted to the same degree as recorded music, but they would buy the entire business if they could get it cheaply enough.