Sentences with word «scourge»

The U2 frontman is an entrepreneur and a social entrepreneur perhaps without peer — or worse, he told the graduates, «the worst scourge on God's green earth: a rock star with a cause.»

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.

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

It has been a global scourge for millennia.

We all know how Bill Gates reinvented the fight against scourges from AIDS to hunger.

It completely changed how I thought about Scourge.

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.

The study stirred alarm when Science first reported it in July 2017 because it might give would - be terrorists a recipe to construct smallpox virus, a major human scourge vanquished in 1980.

Will a glorified DVD aimed at winning over the hearts and minds of players and other football stakeholders really do the trick and wipe out the global scourge of corruption?

Now please take some of those others with you... say 2 million... go back to your backwards countries where you can beat women and children, abuse young girls and blow each other up... you are scourge upon the earth

Kathleen «Good riddance to the toxic backwater scourge called the Christian right.

Governor Andrew Cuomo spoke with the press this afternoon, following a Staten Island bill signing ceremony marking the passage of a law intended to combat the growing scourge of opioid addiction.

«Since Congress has failed the American people by ignoring the deadly scourge of gun violence, since we have failed the families of Stoneman Douglas just like we failed the families of Sandy Hook and Columbine and so many others, we owe it to students and teachers across the country to at least give them tools to help them identify dangerous behavior,» he said.

New DNA recovery and sequencing technology is at last allowing scientists to assemble entire genomes of ancient scourges — and elusive modern ones

In the next few decades, sex won't even be an option if you're busy dodging climate - change - induced hurricanes, tsunamis, floods, droughts, and other scourges of the earth.

Over the last twenty years the countries of the Third World have seen the re-emergence of the worst scourges of malnutrition, even famine, sickness, often pan-epidemics and, in OECD countries, a rise in the number of unemployed, weak homeless and those without rights.

Pharmaceutical companies already have the scientific knowledge and tools they need to develop drugs and vaccines for scourges like malaria, AIDS, and tuberculosis.

Engineer Isaac Clarke embarks on the repair mission, only to uncover a nightmarish blood bath — the ship's crew horribly slaughtered and infected by alien scourge.

One of the worst of these is Clostridium difficile, a major scourge in hospitals, where it's estimated that between 5 and 25 percent of people who receive antibiotics develop diarrhea.

Or were those guys all good in your books because they believed the same thing and were willing to kill because they believed it would be the be for the betterment of mankind to eliminate this evil scourge of religion.

To me, this is a dark pattern, something we happened to write about yesterday in this post, The terrible scourge of Dark Patterns.

I didn't consciously set out to write a film that would spark wider conversations about the ethics of adoption or the worldwide scourge of child sex trafficking.

Poison ivy is a well - known scourge for those who spend time outdoors in the summer.

While fighting off the zombie scourge there are several things that stood out to me.

An old scourge ruined Cherchi's lungs.

Indie polish is the latest scourge on my wallet.

This disease is a particular scourge among elderly patients receiving hospital care.

This is by no means an over-statement as the number of people scourging many a free dating website, looking for a date, will make your mind boggle.

He says that once we identify the viruses that trigger cancer, we can work to prevent their transmission and force them to evolve from fatal scourges into mere nuisances, eventually turning cancer into a manageable disease.

«The spreading scourge [click fraud] poses the single biggest threat to the Internet's advertising gold mine and is the most nettlesome question facing Google and Yahoo, whose digital empires depend on all that gold.»

Most men would never survive scourging because they lose so much blood from all the beating.

Birth of another Hitler is now quite impossible although religious intolerance is the next big scourge.

To encounter this new class member, you'll need to click and drag him from the Blood Scourge event, as he won't appear in the normal hero caravan.

Fine particles of such smoke lodge deep in the lungs of women preparing meals, gifting them a dark scourge of ill - health and premature death.

The deals he and the legislative leaders struck earlier this week included a package of efforts to combat opioid and heroin addiction, a growing scourge across the state; a push to expand access to mammograms and other methods of breast - cancer detection; and an agreement on improving safety at rail crossings, which carried all the political excitement of, well, rail crossings.

«If we eliminate the carbon tax, we also eliminate the coming threat of a carbon tax not just on power, but on heavy transport, which will be an added scourge to the difficulties that manufacturing and agriculture and all these sectors of our economy currently face.»

Other new games included Scourge: Outbreak, Capsized and Zeno Clash 2, which on the whole received more favourable Metacritic scores but for which player statistics were unavailable on Gamasutra.

Health experts have made «record - breaking progress» in getting some of these ancient scourges under control, Margaret Chan, director of the World Health Organization, said in a statement.

«Organised crime is an insidious scourge on our society and we want to ensure that the UK is tackling it at every level,» Mr Reid said.

And therein lies the conundrum that physicians and regulators will have to wrestle with if the promising studies about nicotine's benefits hold up: how to endorse a drug linked to one of the greatest public health scourges the world has ever known.

Regardless, T. vaginalis is beginning to get the attention such a common scourge deserves.

«This is important research to identify the causative agents of these environmental scourges,» says marine ecologist James Porter of the University of Georgia, Athens.

A misconception about atherosclerosis is that it is a modern day scourge caused by unhealthy habits.