Sentences with phrase «old scourge»
An old scourge ruined Cherchi's lungs.
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India is launching a new assault against an age - old scourge: leprosy.
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If the scourge continues at its current pace, demographers predict that two thirds of the current population's 15 - year - olds will die.
The two - time Chelsea boss was not only the scourge of United fans during his time at Stamford Bridge, he also famously upset Old Trafford residents with his antics during Porto's shock win over the Red Devils in 2004.
Malaria, a scourge on human society that still kills more than 400,000 people a year, is often thought to be of more modern origin — ranging from 15,000 to 8 million years old, caused primarily by one genus of protozoa, Plasmodium, and spread by anopheline mosquitoes.
The researchers hope that this scourge of old age, first described 110 years ago by the Frankfurt - based physician Alois Alzheimer, will finally be defeated over the next one or two decades.
As a promising young demon hunter, you are prepared to take on adversaries from the underworld, but when an ancient Egyptian artifact shows up on your doorstep heralding the return of Seth, a demon scourge as old as evil itself, you find yourself facing the most dangerous challenge imaginable.