Sentence examples for would afflict from inspiring English sources

These problems would afflict a British version of The Bridge.

It was a story very much like the one that, many decades later on 6 August 2010, would afflict the miners of San José.

As I had tossed and turned in my bunk, I imagined that every possible nightmare scenario - from capsizing boats to food poisoning - would afflict me at some point in my journey.

By the time a compendium of her New Yorker articles was published in 1969** she was beginning to show signs of a mental fragility that would afflict her for the following 25 years until her death.

But he made a case that all those steps were necessary, not to help the institutions or people receiving taxpayer money, but to avert deeper economic problems that would afflict everyone for years to come.

Nepotism, corruption, the contraband of tickets, the seats handed out to governments that never paid, the business class seats that were reserved for ministers' girlfriends -- all these problems, not too different from those that would afflict the continent, were obvious to all.

It is the second time Miyazaki has been hit by foot-and-mouth disease, which Japanese farmers once boasted would never afflict the country.

This impulse to equivocate and explain wouldn't afflict a foreign correspondent covering a war or a famine in the same way: we're more embarrassed by hardship in our own country, faced with the knowing gaze of compatriots.

After missing two set points on the Chardy serve at 3-5, Murray duly fired a pair of aces to hold to love and take the first set with little sign of the problems that would soon afflict him.

With the policymakers deadlocked, hedge funds and other investors have been making piles of money selling short bonds issued by Spain and Italy, in the anticipation that the debt crisis would soon afflict these countries.

But instead, as a precursor to the sort of unforgivable goofing that would later afflict the likes of West Ham United and a disturbingly high number of African national teams in the recent World Cup qualifiers, Stuttgart botched the most basic of formalities.