Sentences with phrase «scourge among»

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

The study focused on squamous cell head and neck cancers, a scourge among those who use tobacco and alcohol.

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Tom believes bias is among the greatest scourges in business.

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.

«I therefore charge the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development to liaise with other agencies to work out appropriate programmes including actions and measures that would help in fighting the scourge of Child Abuse, Child Abduction, Child Labour and Child Trafficking, among others.»

Describing corruption as «a crime against humanity», Buhari said it was only through «collaborations and mutual understanding among African countries», that the scourge could be eliminated.

She happened to be reading Virus Hunter: Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses Around the World, in which virologist C. J. Peters describes his work combating Ebola in Africa, Nipah virus in Malaysia, and Bolivian hemorrhagic fever, among other viral scourges.

More so, audiences will be clutching their breath to see which of our heroes can withstand the scourge of destruction... and who among them will fall in its wake.

It's pretty much all there, the trappings of a moral panic argument: emphasis on the vulnerable among us (whether young or ignorant or simply «innocent»), the allegation of insidious corruption working in ways that are out of the sight of the ordinary person, the confident assertions of the experts, the reification of the danger in print («I hold in my hand a book...», «I have here in my hand a list of 205 — a list of names... «-RRB- and the use of very large (and rising) numbers that need only be tangentially related to the actual scourge...

«Our goal is to help solve this problem now by using human beings — trained, experienced journalists — who will operate under a transparent, accountable process to apply basic common sense to a growing scourge that clearly can not be solved by algorithms,» explained Brill, the author of two best - selling books, who has won multiple National Magazine awards and, among other journalism enterprises, founded The American Lawyer, Court TV, and Brill's Content magazine.

Family violence is a scourge that is causing untold damage and trauma among Indigenous communities.

It is a scourge that is causing untold damage and trauma among Indigenous communities, to our women and children, and to the fabric of Indigenous cultures.