Sentence examples for which afflict the from inspiring English sources

In an address last year he said the face shown in the relic represented "all those faces of men and women marred by a life which does not respect their dignity, by war and violence which afflict the weakest".

The Guardian reported in November claims by local doctors of a massive rise in birth defects in the city, particularly neural tube defects, which afflict the spinal cords and brains of newborns.

In it he examines questions of time, identity and memory as he tells the story of an encounter with a mysterious alien intelligence, and of the strange dreams which afflict the astronauts.

Take this warning of civil war in Lebanon, published in The Independent, no less: "For Lebanon, these are tense times… Since the Alawite community which dominates political power in Syria is in effect Shia and the majority of Syrians are Sunni, it is not difficult to understand the darker nightmares which afflict the people of this region.

"This disfigured face resembles all those faces of men and women marred by a life which does not respect their dignity, by war and violence which afflict the weakest… And yet, at the same time, the face in the Shroud conveys a great peace; this tortured body expresses a sovereign majesty".(Photo credit: Wikimedia commons).

They are blamed for the floods, which afflict the city every rainy season.

Second, the political ague which afflicted the Polish electorate in the run-up to the parliamentary elections has since been all but cured.

The Skirball fires, which afflicted the neighborhood of Los Angeles where the Getty is located, drew as near as the San Diego Freeway it overlooks.

Sadly, however, his trousers were too big; he was suffering from RCS, rumpled crotch syndrome, which afflicted the previous Tory prime minister.

That which afflicts the lay narcissist, the egomaniac in the street, is quite different from the impressive baggage borne by a professional narcissist.

To millions of people below the "salaried job" level security is almost as tangible a thing as money itself; to know that bad luck will not mean acute poverty is to be free of the most persistent and stabbing anxiety which afflicts the wage-earner.