Sentences with phrase «by scourge»

Yet not every pet is affected by the scourge of fleas or ticks.

At first glance, the trophies for 150 side quests and 100 errands will be the longest timesink, followed by Scourge of the Tainted.

«If you consider the morbidity and mortality caused by the scourge of counterfeit drugs, it is an urgent problem that requires a global response,» says Jim Hayward, the CEO of Applied DNA Sciences.

Skeletons recently unearthed from a medieval friary in the U.K. show unmistakable signs of the disease, researchers say, suggesting that England was hit by the scourge at least 50 years before Columbus's voyage.

A native of rural Elmira Heights, New York, Wood became fascinated with forest insects when he noticed dead elms killed by a scourge of beetle - borne disease in his hometown.

Adesina quoted the President as calling for the establishment of a Commonwealth Committee to oversee the rendering of assistance and support to Nigerian and other member countries which had been adversely affected by the scourge of terrorism.

Every community in our county has been touched by the scourge of this addiction.

On Twitter, these young «tradinistas» run an ongoing inquisition, promoting an alternate conception of Catholic politics by scourging anyone naïve enough to retweet a defender of free love or free markets.

Yet on himself he bore our sufferings, our torments he endured, while we counted him smitten by God, struck down by disease and misery; but he was pierced for our transgressions, tortured for our iniquities; the chastisement he bore is health for us and by his scourging we are healed.

Isaiah 53:4 - 6 — ... He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the chastening for our well - being fell upon Him, and by His scourging we are healed... > Jesus was pieced by nails and a spear, and He was chastened by scrourging.

«Commitment» and «intimacy» are in (helped by the scourges of herpes and AIDS), and celibacy is again a respectable option.

Isa 53:5 But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well - being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed.

The crucifixion was introduced, as usual, by a scourging; no wonder that Jesus was so weakened by the journey to the place of execution that Simon of Cyrene had to carry the wooden crossbeam for him.

The officer ordered him to be taken into the barracks and questioned by scourging in order to get the truth out of him as to what he had really done to cause such an outbreak.

Despite their collective efficiency and order, beehives are often plagued by scourges that would rival a medieval city.

Not exact matches

The airline has differentiated itself by making the layover, a scourge of international travelers everywhere, into a perk.

Local residents say the project has been snarled by inefficient use of the resources and cloying red tape, scourges that repeatedly trip up the euro zone's third largest economy.

The increased adoption is driven, of course, by the nation's deepening opioid epidemic — a scourge fueled by prescription pain pill abuse and cheap heroin that resulted in 24,200 overdose deaths in 2013, up 315 % from 1999.

And with good reason, it turns out: Lego, the danish toy maker and scourge of barefoot parents everywhere, announced this week that The Lego Movie had helped boost the company's revenues by 11 % and profits by 14 % for the first half of 2014.

For what feels like the umpteenth time, Facebook is introducing another new plan to fight against the scourge of fake news that populates the platform, this time by making shrinking the size of links to bogus claims and hoaxes.

Remember the scourged carpenter hanging by nails?

Here there is no talk of having a little patience, and of things going well by Sunday; but here is found the Eternal's victorious comfort, and these scourged Apostles have more than conquered.

One may reply that the analogy between there being no trees and no concreta at all does not hold because in the case of the trees there would always be some «cause» by virtue of which the trees would disappear; there would be a blight or a scourge, they would wither and die, etc..

In that letter she characterized Hitler as a «scourge of God,» who could be countered by two means:

This problem was flagged up for Archbishop Nichols» attention immediately his name had been announced for Westminster, by the redoubtable Daphne McLeod, mild - mannered scourge of the English episcopate, who in a welcoming piece for The Flock brought tohis attention once more an issue he would undoubtedly be glad to be able to ignore:

Yet whether it was the ecclesiastical or the civil authorities that opposed them by imprisonment, ejection, scourging, or death, or as often happened, a conjunction of the two when the crowd stirred up trouble, the book of Acts gives a remarkable picture of their steadfastness under opposition and attack.6 The gospel of salvation through Christ put iron in their souls, and nothing could daunt them in their witness to it.

In a story that's one part Indiana Jones, one part Nana's craft day down at the local bingo hall, and every part bananas, Hobby Lobby — the giant arts and crafts retailer and apparent scourge of the global archeological community — is being forced by the U.S. Justice Department to return thousands of illegally acquired ancient Iraqi artifacts and pay a multi-million dollar fine.

Among the martyrs at Lyons in 177, was the domestic slave, Blandina, of whose death - being finally killed by having her throat cut, after surviving horrible tortures including ruthless scourging, being roasted on a red - hot griddle, and being gored bloody by a bull while bound in a net - it stands recorded that even the pagans themselves admitted that none of their women had ever endured so many terrible tortures.

And yet his most recent biographer, David Abulafia (Frederick II: A Medieval Emperor, 1988), shows considerable evidence that Frederick — despite being condemned by some (and praised by others) for being the scourge of the papacy — wished to remain by his own lights an orthodox if rather eccentric Catholic.

Thus if true proof of the existence of God is presented in the here and now to believers, they will flog it, scourge it, and crucify it in an instant by whatever means.

These peoples are now threatened by a new divine scourge, each in turn.

I think Peter and the Apostles would have been rather surprised at the concept that Christ had been scourged and beaten by soldiers, cursed and crowned with thorns and subjected to unutterable contempt and finally nailed to the cross and left to bleed to death in order that we might all become gentlemen.»

The scourging produced deep stripelike lacerations and appreciable blood loss, and it probably set the stage for hypovolemic shock, as evidenced by the fact that Jesus was too weakened to carry the crossbar (patibulum) to Golgotha.

The deep and ugly reaches of clergy sexual abuse, once treated by the Vatican as a uniquely American trouble, were revealed to be a global scourge.

This scientific innovation was soon followed by other high - yielding varieties that each offered increasing vigor and resistance to pests and disease — the major scourges of that period.

Watford have been awkward customers in years gone by, and have been known to cause the odd upset, I'm sure many of us remember the scourge of Mo Johnston.

January 26 — A part - time English team is going where bigger clubs fear to tread by taking a stand against betting sponsorship, partly because of the scourge of match - fixing pervading the sport.

He has since been the scourge of the Arsenal faithful, when in a league match against the Gunners, he kicked Robin van Persie in the face and later celebrated his goal by running the full length of the pitch to slide in front of the Arsenal fans.

«When a child is cursed by a father who brought him up from age three because of disrespect and insults to him, the child grows up to become the type of Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa: with sharp teeth, both figuratively and physically and a scourge on all elders of the whole Ghanaian society except those who feed his greedy political stomach» he added.

When a child is cursed by a father who brought him up from age three because of disrespect and insults to him, the child grows up to become the type of Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa: with sharp teeth, both figuratively and physically and a scourge on all elders of the whole Ghanaian society except those who feed his greedy political stomach.

This epidemic is the scourge of our time and demands that we come together as a community to address the issue, provide treatment and services for the addicted and those impacted by addiction, and begin to heal as a community,» said Poloncarz in a released statement.

The Dapchi incident occurred against a backdrop of a resurgence of violent attacks by the terrorists which had stripped the government's claim of «technically defeating» or otherwise ending the Boko Haram scourge, of any credibility.

Not even the spread of the economic scourge to at least 30 other states could absolve him of blame by ardent critics.

«The Bronx has been hard hit by the heroin and opioid epidemic, which is why I'm doing everything in my power to help spread awareness and combat this deadly scourge.

In addition my senior staff participated in meetings with members of the Governor's senior staff and the senior staff of the Senate Democratic Conference to discuss this critical issue and incorporate various recommendations made by all parties to address the scourge of sexual harassment.»

This heartbreaking incident puts into clear focus both the difficulties our police officers face every day and the true scourge of guns and gun violence faced by our police, our communities and our nation.

«Innovation Trail» correspondent Jenna Flanagan looks at how the state and municipalities are using technology to combat the scourge of blight caused by «zombie properties.»

This epidemic is the scourge of our time and demands that we come together as a community to address the issue, provide treatment and services for the addicted and those impacted by addiction, and begin to heal as a community,» said Poloncarz.

According to Scarpino, the issues that he plans to address in his new role include Westchester's heroin and illegal drug epidemic — a situation he described as «a scourge that is destroying our youth» — as well as Internet predators, phone scams, child and elder abuse, domestic violence, and injustices against immigrants who he believes are preyed upon by people who take advantage of their fear of deportation.

The Bring Your Own Bag Law, passed by the New York City Council, would begin to address the scourge of single - use plastic bags on the city's environment.