Sentences with phrase «great scourges»

Pogge sees hope in the «moralization of supranational rule making» based on «agreement on the great scourges that all have a shared interest in banishing» — including severe poverty, which would guide towards greater coherency in rule making and act as a constraint on lobbying.

Even if you're not, you should be annoyed that your fancy navigation system can not solve one of the great scourges of modern life: traffic delays.

And it is why Britain is leading the way in pioneering international efforts to crack down on modern slavery - one of the great scourges of our world - wherever it is found.

The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges: the pox and Christianity.

Before the nineteenth century, poverty was generally thought of as a destiny, a fate, one of the great scourges of mankind, along with famine, wild beasts, epidemics, war, earthquakes.

Tom believes bias is among the greatest scourges in business.

Although valued, like the Jews, for their contribution to the economy, the reconquista spirit still remained at the heart of Spanish society and the Moors were particularly feared for their natural allegiance to the Ottoman Turks, the great scourge of Christendom.

Recently, the Vatican declared that human trafficking in our time is a greater scourge than the transatlantic slave trade of the 18th century.

As we all know, the greatest scourge facing today's youth is not the prospect of global climate change, or the faltering economy they're likely to inherit: it's the chance that they might cast their delicate eyeballs in the direction of a TV or computer screen.

Burke was famously a great scourge of corruption, spending seven years trying to impeach Warren Hastings, the governor general of India at the turn of the 18th century.

The important thing about the zebra mussel is to not consider each one as an individual organism but instead, like a cancer cell, part of a greater scourge that metastasizes as fast as currents flow.

«If such a goal was created, the great scourge of the Western world would be essentially eliminated.»

The ivory trade continues to be the greatest scourge and ongoing threat to elephants.

Not exact matches

And in the Church's annals, the professor of history found two millennia of events that shaped the course of the Western world, from Leo the Great riding out armed only with his scepter to meet Attila the Hun, to John Paul II traveling behind the Iron Curtain to his native Poland to bring down the scourge of Communism» an iconic event that seems to have captured the imagination of the recent convert.

But chide those for whose refractoriness ye have cause to fear; remove them into beds apart, and scourge them: but if they are obedient to you, then seek not occasion against them: verily, God is High, Great!

When somebody loses a great deal of blood, as our Lord would have done in his scourging, one of the symptoms of this traumatic blood loss is a build - up of watery fluid around the heart.

Or like Xerxes, we scourge the waters of the Hellespont — with great lashes of rhetoric upon the short waves.

Against Germany he did not play a part and was unused so there is really not much point going into that game in great depth — Toni Kroos, a scourge of Arsenal over the past few years in the Champions League gave Germany a 1 - 0 victory with a nice finish.

«There is simply no place for the scourge of racism and the vulgarity of bigotry in our great nation.

His example suggests that while science's first and greatest triumph in this area was to develop vaccinations to control or eradicate many diseases, the challenge now — not yet achieved, and in some ways even more difficult — is to preserve public support for vaccine programs long after these scourges have largely vanished from our everyday lives.

But only with the emergence of a genetic tool called CRISPR / Cas9 — the bottle opener that unleashed the genie — has gene drive technology offered the prospect of providing a speedy means to end some of the world's greatest health and ecological scourges.

Surviving past age 100 means they've largely evaded the scourges that kill their peers before they reach their 90s (what's called compressed morbidity), or sidestepped the worst aspects of these life - threatening diseases — even if they strike sooner — because they have combinations of protective genes, what researchers call «greater functional reserves.»

Using reusable cutlery at home is a great way to ensure that you don't contribute to this scourge, and keeping some at your desk and in your tote bag keeps you prepared on the go.

Redwall, a great mouse epic in three parts follows the good defenders of Redwall Abbey as they battle the wrath of Cluny the Scourge and his minions.

The great warrior king of the barbarians, Scourge of God, Attila the Hun leads the charge against the Roman Empire.

As soon as you finish playing the tutorial, you will have played enough to know that Scourge: Outbreak was indeed inspired by many great recent games, but it does not deliver the functionality which made those other games stand out.

A couple years ago, the New Yorker ran a great, comprehensive piece on «link rot» — that scourge of dead - end links and vexing «404» errors that annoys us all and ensures the Web's enduring reputation as an «ethereal, ephemeral, unstable, and unreliable» ravel of non-sequiturs.

My youngest came home with molluscum once, which sounds kinda fishy, but is a scourge far greater than anything the deep could produce.