Sentence examples for which afflicted the from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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

Some of the people who have walked to the town will find themselves not celebrating but offering succour to victims and their families.Only a few weeks ago, thousands of people, many of them tourists or Hindu pilgrims, are thought to have lost their lives in floods which afflicted the north Indian state of Uttarakhand and led to one of the largest-ever air rescue operations.

Life in Greece was made more difficult by the rural poverty which afflicted the post-war nation.

The organisation's work was believed to have focused on insect-borne diseases such as typhus, which afflicted the camp inmates.

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

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.