Canker in a sentence

A research into waste management in the capital, Accra, has stressed the need for increased citizens’ involvement in strategies rolled out to deal with the perennial canker.

I could weather terrific canker sores and endure strained muscles with little complaint.

Once Botryosphaeria canker encircles the branch, the water supply beyond that point is cut off to the leaves.

We talked, among other things, about the explosive fact that in states like VA and CA, a geographically tiny canker sore of urban density has achieved almost unassailable political control over the entire state.

Gandhiji was deeply pained by the growing canker of communalism in the island, but he held out the hope that if the Ceylonese adhered to the Master’s teachings, to quote Gandhiji again, you “can outstrip us and set an example”.

He said government would do everything possible within its means to help minimize the canker and appealed to stakeholders including drivers, passengers, transport owners and road regulatory bodies to play their respective roles to avoid such disasters.

He urged journalists to take up the role of migration reporting to ensure that the canker was dealt with to the core, looking at the various push and pull factors responsible for the thriving of irregular migration.

Rev Leonard Agblomasa, District Director of the Commission said teenage pregnancy was a pressing issue in the District, and that the clubs must help address the canker by promoting discipline and self-worth among the youth.

SOD is a water mold fungus that can attack plants directly through the bark, killing plant tissue and resulting in a bleeding canker.

Speaking during the official opening of this year’s annual National Cadres Conference at Ejisu in the Ashanti Region last Saturday, Mr. Rawlings said the corruption canker would have been defeated by now had Mr. Mahama acted appropriately.

These symptoms are consistent with another fungal disease of sunflowers that has increased in both distribution and severity in this region over the last five years, referred to as Phomopsis stem canker.

If the accused say that they have been targeted, does that same list represent one of the canker worms of African Politics; nepotism/favouritism?

Let us face it, though, the benign and somewhat lenient approach towards the fight against the canker of corruption would not curb the widespread sleazes and corruption which have been retrogressing Ghana’s advancement thus far.

Mr. Mortiaty reminded Ghanaians that South Korea which faced a similar sanitation challenge in the past demonstrated strong leadership to overcome the social canker and urged the government to emulate Korea’s example.

Speaking earlier, Fayemi said his government would work hard to bring succour to the populace, by removing the canker worm of corruption that has eaten deep into the state’s fabrics under the PDP-led government of Governor Ayodele Fayose.

There are several theories about what leads to canker sores, those painful ulcers that form inside the mouth, on the tongue or inside the cheek or lips, though medical experts say they don’t know the precise cause.

A number of pests such as Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, Diplodia spp., and Phytophthora cinnamomi (stripe canker) can affect that growing plants, sometimes leading to death.