Afflicts in a sentence

As a technical intervention in the mechanics of elections, ranked choice voting hardly feels like the antidote to the democratic erosion that afflicts the United States, not to mention democracies around the world.

They stressed that contrary to the assumption that cancer mainly afflicts only adults, the condition is also diagnosed in children.

Not just in the sphere of is this an issue; it afflicts all who succumb to the power which comes with fame.

This challenge is further exacerbated by the political instability that afflicts many of Nigeria’s neighboring nations, such as Niger, Chad, and Cameroon.

But even Anzalone does not describe himself as above the stress that afflicts many in his party.

For Ethiopia, the dam is the symbol of its industrial ambitions and of its determination to escape the historical poverty that afflicts its population.

It is sobering when a deadly disease afflicts someone known for health and durability.

Viewers may be confused as to why Benjamin is development a disease that usually only afflicts old people when he is growing younger every day, but the answer lies in the exact nature of his aging.

What then is the ultimate weapon against dangerous depression that afflicts many today?

And it afflicts ships ceaselessly.

But it has not eliminated the scourge that afflicts our elder citizens.

It mostly afflicts poor children younger than 10. They go to sleep apparently healthy, and wake up with a high fever and brain swelling that leads to convulsions, seizures and, in a third of the cases, death — often within 24 to 36 hours.

Not so sure the Senate is that great an example of how to do bicameralism One reason for the legislative paralysis that afflicts the US is because of the why the House/Senate is structure.

Polio is a highly infectious and a fatal disease that has permanently paralyzing effect, especially when it afflicts children.

Sickle cell disease is a devastating genetic disease that afflicts millions of people around the world, including about 100,000 in the United States.

That involved using gene therapy to block a protein, TGF-beta, termed a “master switch” in the process by which heart valves scar, thicken, and become misshapen, the same process that afflicts the dogs.

THE Platform for Concerned Citizens (PCC) congratulates the Zimbabwe Heads of Christian Denominations (ZHoCD) for its timely intervention in the deepening crisis that afflicts our country.

Athlete’s foot afflicts 15% of the world population and its global market is estimated to be almost $1B.

Dry eye is a disease that afflicts more than 30 million people in the United States.

If God will change a water beetle into a dragonfly, won’t God raise us above the dismal, gloomy winterized life that often afflicts us?