Sentences with phrase «scourge on»

They are a scourge on our ability to pay attention to what's in front of us.

And it's such a scourge on the profession that law societies, bar associations, and legal academics have tried to tackle the «problem.»

Violence, while subsiding, is still a scourge on much of Northern Mexico where the most lucrative oil and gas deposits are believed to be.

To see this scourge on a broader scale, you might take a look at the website Unnecessary Journalism Phrases, maintained by Josh Sternberg, who fields examples from the daily press as they catch his eye.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, all this fixation on get - it - right, got - it - wrong is obscuring the real issue: the truth is what we define it to be, and the truth is that mankind is a scourge on the planet.

Also on TreeHugger Cars vs. Light - Rail William Faulkner on Cars Broadway Gets a Bicycle and Pedestrian Friendly Makeover Cars Are A Scourge on the Face of the Planet Dept: Park Avenue Before and After Light Rail or BRT

«Single - use plastics are a scourge on our seas and lethal to our precious environment and wildlife so it is vital we act now,» Environment Secretary Michael Gove said.

For those who think industrialism is a scourge on the earth, the Clean Power Plan achieves what is really important.

sorry off topic but i can not resist below is a comment from the rc blog headed the IPCC is not fallible read and enjoy # 27 I've said it before and I'll say it again, all this fixation on get - it - right, got - it - wrong is obscuring the real issue: the truth is what we define it to be, and the truth is that mankind is a scourge on the planet.

That is called lifestyle inflation and it is a scourge on responsible spending.

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Marx, in turn, views the Golem as a scourge on urban scapegoats — whores and Jews.

(Although when we lose an hour of sleep because of the scourge on humanity that is daylight savings time we are more aware of how hard change really is)

This is the second coral disease shown to be linked to bacteria found in sewage, he notes; last month, researchers reported that sewage - associated bugs cause black band disease, another coral scourge on the rise (ScienceNOW, 22 May).

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.

Public corruption is a scourge on our county and my office will continue to use every tool at our disposal to hold accountable anyone who violates the public's trust.»

«This is a scourge on society, people have had to live through these tragedies» said Cuomo.

On Wednesday, Bratton described synthetic marijuana as a «scourge on our society,» and said, «It affects teenagers in public housing, homeless in the city shelter system, and it's quite literally flooding our streets.»

In a statement, a spokesperson for City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito said, «Plastic bags are a wasteful scourge on our City.

Other communities, like Monroe County, wouldn't even admit there was a problem until this year, and now they are years behind in fighting this scourge on society.

It will pay for enhanced enforcement, street outreach and a media component to target what Mayor Stephanie Miner calls a scourge on the city.

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.

«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.

You and your ilk are a scourge on humanity.

Wait since prayer changes things that means you have not been praying to stop this scourge on humanity.

Why allow Hagar and Ishmael to live when he should have known what a scourge on humanity their movement would inspire?

And religion is indeed a mind numbing scourge on the world.

I'll believe the rational thinking person who uses his critical faculties to deduce that all religions are a scourge on humanity and that NOT ONE of them has any basis in fact or reality.

In true infectious style, everyone suddenly became convinced single - use retail bags were a scourge on the environment and evidence our consumer lifestyle was out of control.

Distracted driving is a scourge on the roads these days.

Not exact matches

Perhaps most remarkable is the collective imagination of students across the United States, who dared to take on a challenge that their parents, aunts, and uncles had all but abandoned: stopping the scourge of gun violence.

As I gazed out at the room I saw some of the most important voices on the debate: USC's Jonathan Taplin, Columbia's Tim Wu, Berkeley's Carl Shapiro, Stratechery proprietor Ben Thompson, and the monopolist scourge Gary Reback.

Herjavec, an entrepreneur whose own mother grappled with the scourge, expounded on this kind of tech's promise.

«Facebook is pleased to be working with Attorney General Schneiderman on his efforts to combat the scourge of human trafficking.

«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.»

Barth went on to become the scourge of liberal Protestant theology, subjecting it to withering criticism.

(Matt 24:9) When choosing his twelve apostles some 2 years earlier, Jesus told them: «Be on your guard against men; for they will deliver you up to local courts, and they will scourge you in their synagogues.

For the sake of «conservative values,» they ignore the sufferings of their Protestant brethren in the east of Ukraine and pin their hopes on Putin as the scourge of Western decadence.

Born from Thomas Robert Malthus» famous late - eighteenth - century Essay on Population, this was the novel view that humanity itself amounted to a kind of scourge or pollution whose pressure on fellow members would lead to catastrophe.

The upcoming episode of «This is Life With Lisa Ling» explores the scourge of prescription drug abuse in Utah and within its Mormon community at10 p.m. ET / PT Sunday on CNN.

For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on: And they shall scourge him, and put him to death: and the third day he shall rise again.

«Some of the stories I could tell you would terrify you,» announces Pastor Ben Lindsay to a stuffy room of Christians who have come together on a dreary autumn evening to talk about the scourge of knives.

Christ is no longer the God who took on human flesh that he might be scourged and scorned, and so bring the body into glory.

The pope's shortsighted views on gay marriage as being such a terrible scourge are more evidence that the Catholic Church is completely out of step with the events of the world.

We read of the Apostles, (Acts 5:40 - 41) that when they were scourged they went on their way rejoicing and gave thanks to God.

a deep resignation to God's will, a surrender of ourselves, soul and body, to Him; hoping indeed, that we shall be saved, but fixing our eyes more earnestly on Him than on ourselves; that is, acting for His glory, seeking to please Him, devoting ourselves to Him in all manly obedience and strenuous good works; and, when we do look within, thinking of ourselves with a certain abhorrence and contempt as being sinners, mortifying our flesh, scourging our appetites, and composedly awaiting that time when, if we be worthy, we shall be stripped of our present selves, and new made in the kingdom of Christ.

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.

He thought of Jesus who underwent scourging, carried his cross and walked more than a thousand paces, up to the summit of a high mountain, and so on.

Some of them you will kill and impale, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city; that there may come upon you all the righteous blood spilled on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zech · a · ri ′ ah son of Bar · a · chi ′ ah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.»