Sentence examples for we are afflicted from inspiring English sources

No wonder we are afflicted with hooliganism, racial and homophobic violence.

"We are afflicted by corruption, lack of services, unemployment and mass graves".

The graphic arts are on the march as "showing" tramples on "explaining," and now we are afflicted with the symbols of symbols.

"And that's why they are blessed with peace and prosperity while we are afflicted with social distress and civil strife all over the Muslim world.

We are afflicted with the kind of "common sense" that turns one black kid into all black men and all black men into criminals – and, most worryingly, all criminality into a black male "thing".

When we are afflicted with it, we feel more acutely the presence (and judgment) of other people, as we can see in the panicked inner monologues of Peep Show.

The study is of useful consideration for Australians, of course – we're afflicted with alcohol problems of our own.

We were afflicted with jet lag for our first 24 hours, which meant that we were lying awake at 4 on our first morning, listening to our iPods and reading books about the Taliban, when the dawn call to prayer sounded from the mosques, echoing through the mountains that surround Kabul and filling our small room.

Let's also remember that two-thirds of the U.S. population is overweight or obese, and healthier diets could prevent many of the chronic diseases we're afflicted with.

If the Court fight of the nineteen-thirties was, for the body politic, an acute illness life-threatening but reversillness life-threateningoday, with something more chronic.

Five million Americans are afflicted by the disease.