How To Use Afflict In A Sentence

We like to use the word afflicted or, technical term, demonized. NPR Topics: News
Since the anito is the cause of all bodily afflictions the chief function of the person who battles for the health of the afflicted is that of the exorcist, rather than that of the therapeutist. The Bontoc Igorot
Very few of these cases involve plaintiffs afflicted with legitimate disabilities as most of us understand the term.
We've discovered that another hive is afflicted with a parasitic mite with the terrifying name Varroa destructor Next week we plan to treat them with formic acid, an organic chemical control. Dave Snyder: Farm Report: Starting The Year From Seed
Wizard Apprentice Nicodemus had thought to be the prophesied Halcyon, but is afflicted with cacography, which stuns his growth as a magician. REVIEW: Spellwright by Blake Charlton

At fifty years of age, he began to be grievously afflicted with the stone and nephritic colic; but bore with cheerfulness the most excruciating pains of his distemper. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
I reckon we're in danger of raising a whole generation of undiscriminating couch potatoes afflicted by TV-induced Attention Deficit Disorder.
And after Vikarna's flight, Satruntapa, unable to repress his ire, began to afflict Partha, that obstructer of foes and achiever of super-human feats, by means of a perfect shower of arrows. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7
Enough time had now elapsed since our last newly afflicted patient to conclude that the epidemic was over. THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
Let these wives first step into the pyre, tearless without any affliction and well adorned.
In afflictions, relatives and opponents combine with the ease-loving heart itself in flatteries, which it needs strong faith to overcome. yourselves know -- We always candidly told you so (1Th 3: 4; Ac 14: 22). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The goddesse of warre, called Bellona, had these thre handmaids ever attendynge on her: BLOOD, FIRE, and FAMINE, which thre damosels be of that force and strength that every one of them alone is able and sufficient to torment and afflict a proud prince; and they all joyned together are of puissance to destroy the most populous country and most richest region of the world. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
The commandments that they propagate to prevent cancer highlight the importance of diet in warding off the affliction.
In countries afflicted by epidemics and pandemics like malaria and tuberculosis, growth and development will be threatened until these scourges can be contained.
Severe drought has afflicted the countryside.
With that sternness which is admissible only to the afflicted, I have denied myself even the consolation of your visits. My Novel — Volume 07
The minute division of labour in the production process,and increasing interdependency in trade and economy is evident in the financial crisis afflicting us at the end of this century. Economic activity is no longer purely a matter of production, trade and barter. It is a means to satisfy human desires of every kind. Within it, there is an element of unequal relationship between the strong and the weak.
A spiritual vacuum afflicts many people.
An early and telltale sign of the disease is a severe runny nose and often a custardlike discharge that eventually encrusts the afflicted animal's muzzle.
We'd rather believe that health care is all about healing the sick, helping the infirm and comforting the afflicted.
-- But I had the impression that the author of the Spectator was afflicted with a dropsy, or some such inflated malady, to which persons of sedentary and bibacious habits are liable. The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
Yet this is not all: they are proud still, and therefore they do not seek unto God (Ps.x. 4), or, if they do cry unto him, therefore he does not give answer, for he hears only the desire of the humble (Ps.x. 17) and delivers those by his providence whom he has first by his grace prepared and made fit for deliverance, which we are not if, under humbling afflictions, our hearts remain unhumbled and our pride unmortified. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Victims of lathyrism, "crawlers", are numerous among the poor in Ethiopia, India, Bangladesh and Nepal where the affliction remains a present threat. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Severe drought has afflicted the region.
The cold and rain afflicted much of Europe and led to widespread famine and disease. Times, Sunday Times
That is, the church of Christ founded in humility appearing outwardly afflicted, and as it were black and contemptible; but inwardly, that is, in its doctrine and morality, fair and beautiful. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision
If thy disease be continuate and painful to thee, it will not surely last: and a light affliction, which is but for a moment, causeth unto us a far more excellent and eternal weight of glory, 2 Cor. iv. Anatomy of Melancholy
As if life isn't enough of a curse, I was afflicted with Tourette Syndrome.
People opening the crates were afflicted by a 10-minute debuff during which they could be cured by a Paladin, else they would turn into a zombie. Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Speaking of zombies
They sometimes afflicted people with fits or staggers or palsies for transgressions such as emptying a bucket of foul water in the wrong place. Wildfire
A catchall term for a host of afflictions including Lupus and MS, autoimmune disorders treat the body's organs and normal functions as enemy invaders.
We are attempting to use examples of media bias to raise awareness of the deep systemic corruption afflicting the media.
Yet the imbalances afflicting the eurozone are no less acute than those addressing the broader global economy. Times, Sunday Times
Larsen: People who are really creative do use the term affliction, because it is like a daimon that has hold of you and it's where your energy comes from. Interview with Stephen Larsen, author, THE FUNDAMENTALIST MIND
The apostle says not (remarks Calvin nobly) "What," but "Who," just as if all creatures and all afflictions were so many gladiators taking arms against the Christians [Tholuck]. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The sirocco of North Africa can afflict the vineyards of southern Europe, occasionally reaching France.
Christian Church_, which had the remarkable effect of harassing and afflicting all the three high camps -- the historical anglicans, the The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859
The village is sheltered by gentle hills and seems immune from much of the washout summer that has afflicted Britain. Times, Sunday Times
The first three years of George II's reign, which began in 1727, were afflicted by successive waves of smallpox and influenza-like infections, imprecisely and variously described by contemporaries as agues and fevers.
The prophecy, probably, contemplates ultimately, besides the affliction and deliverance in Sennacherib's time, the destruction of Jerusalem by Rome, the dispersion of the Jews, their restoration, the destruction of the enemies that besiege the city (Zec 14: 2), and the final glory of Israel (Isa 29: 17-24). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
She's a whirlwind of anger and violence, desperate to deny the finality of Rocky's affliction that she knew she would one day have to face.
It was a view echoed in Britain not so long ago by those who spoke of the ‘cycle of deprivation’ which afflicted the poor and the working class.
She is not interested in neophilia, the insatiable hunger for the new that is one of the terrible afflictions of contemporary society. Victoria Miro, queen of arts
I cannot but admire, that any should go with their distempered friends and relations to the afflicted children, to know what their distempered friends ail.
Those who through grace can glory in tribulation ought to glorify God in tribulation, and give him thanks for their comforts, which abound as their afflictions do abound. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
The political and social convulsions afflicting our neighbour will have severe repercussions for the rest of Europe
We shot an old pallah on the 16th, and found that the poor animal had been visited with more than the usual share of animal afflictions. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
For those afflicted with the notion that national politics is on the level and two-dimensional, the following yarn is logical.
Some are raised even in areas where domestic cattle cannot survive because of afflictions such as trypanosomiasis and foot-and-mouth disease. 5 Chicken
On those occasions in which relief from a specific affliction was not achieved through home remedies, however, individuals or families might solicit the assistance of a curandero (folk curer) or other type of folk healer.
When Nur al-Din foregathered with his mother and father, they were gladdened in each other with the utmost gladness and care and affliction ceased from them, whilst his parents joyed no less in the Princess Miriam and honoured her with the highmost honour. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
It was not until a certain jet-black-haired songbird had the courage to step forward and let the world know she suffered from this debilitating affliction that I knew I too could stand tall, gassy burning throat and all.
Characters thus afflicted may be realistic but they are also tiresomely predictable in their cravenness.
God is angry with them, and contends with them, and they are full of that only, and take no notice of his wise and gracious designs in afflicting them, never enquire wherefore he contends with them, and therefore nothing appears in them but anger at Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
At normal, respectable speeds it drives without the unwieldy nature that afflicts many supercars.
Heartburn sounds such an innocuous affliction until you actually experience it but stabbing sharp pains in your chest when ever you bend down or lie down is not very fun.
This is the face of a rare genetic disease called epidermolysis bullosa, or EB - and researchers believe they have found a treatment that will ease the suffering of those afflicted and help prolong their lives. Canadian Online Health News
Those who run sport often suffer from a congenital affliction that causes them to alter the games over which they are temporary custodians. Times, Sunday Times
Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be afflicted Revelations of Divine Love
O afflicter of thy foes, in compensation for all this vast misery wrought by Dhritarashtra's son, thou wilt attain to proportional happiness after having killed thy foes, O great king, O lord of men, the ways of the world are known to thee. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7
Nor grew this familiarity (as yet) any way distasted, till by their daily conversing together, and enterchange of infinite pretty speeches, Jeronimo felt a strange alteration in his soule, with such enforcing and powerfull afflictions; as he was never well but in her company, nor she enjoyed any rest if Jeronimo were absent. The Decameron
His grandmother had the same affliction that his mother was cursed with.
A couple of these essays are fatally infected by the particular strain of logorrhoea that afflicts so much current architectural theory.
All are afflicted with a rise in overcrowded classrooms, teacher layoffs, and the other crises that accompany financial cutbacks.
Some afflictions that are caused by an epigene that's turned off a gene when it should be on, or vice versa, have been "cured" by finding the malfunctioning epigene and replacing it with a better version. Prairiemary
The Kaisha Society, founded in 1987 to assist the then-few gaijin who work with Japanese companies, is expanding its focus to include assistance to needy Japanese youngsters who have been afflicted with cancer.
She affected to be spunky about her ailments and afflictions, but she was in fact an utterly self - centered valetudinarian.
Also Jupiter has just separated by two minutes from a square of the Sun, which is an affliction.
Thapa Magar suffers from a condition known as primordial dwarfism, which only afflicts about 100 people worldwide, according to Telegraph. Khagendra Thapa Magar, World's Smallest Teenager, Asked To Promote Mount Everest Tourism (VIDEO)
The original film was subject to the censorship mores of the time - a consideration that meant that the book's Catholic themes (Pinkie is afflicted with a peculiar kind of devoutness), and some of its more violent scenes (a murder by choking on a stick of Brighton rock), were dampened or excised. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Cats afflicted with hyperesthesia and intense skin allergies may exhibit symptoms elicited by even the softest touch, including strange skin ripples or seizurelike episodes of frantic racing, panic, or biting at the air. The Last Chance Dog
The long and expensive illness which terminated the life of my dear father on the 19th of August 1823 has involved our family in affliction and distress. Letter 385
I never saw such a picture of forlorn affliction and distress of mind.
He suggests that Unitarian Universalism is not so much afflicted with its own orthodoxy or even "orthopraxy" a favorite neologism among seminarians, but that it is tilting heavily toward "orthopatheia", a fixation on feeling the right things. Philocrites: August 2003 Archives
In fact, he probably went into psychology in order to evade his own problems by concentrating on the mental afflictions of others.
It's admittedly not such a damaging policy in deflationary conditions such as those afflicting the advanced industrial economies now. Times, Sunday Times
Indeed, without the apathy now afflicting the union movement, he might not be in his job. The Sun
The disease mainly afflicts plants in commercial greenhouses.
Many are afflicted by alcoholism, drug addiction, and depression.
In Jakarta, the city worst hit by this epidemic, over 6,200 people have been afflicted by the disease and 50 of them have died.
Although the afflicted creatures do not behave aggressively, Fosco said, they still pose a threat to domestic animals.
Thou hast compelled me to forespeak, as well deliverance to the afflicted, as destruction to certain inobedient, the performance whereof, not I alone, but the very blind world has already seen. John Knox
The script, moreover, while restoring some of the gloss to the Hughes story, leans more to spectacle than elucidation where his affliction is concerned.
This is important because of the many problems now afflicting Europe. Times, Sunday Times
And in it he asks them to 'Consider' -- his countrymen have scarcely as yet considered it sufficiently -- 'Consider, brethren, it is no speculative theologue which desireth to give you courage, but even your brother in affliction, which partly hath experience what Satan's wrath may do against the chosen of John Knox
Robert F, Kennedy suffers from a vocal disorder known as spasmodic dysphonia. 15,5500 people in this country are afflicted with the condition. Firedoglake » Good Governance Is More Than CYA…
Shorn of the ostentatious nostalgia that afflicts too many period films, The House of Mirth is a bracing, cleanly wrought spiral of a film, a chiller in the true sense of the word.
It signifies a _trial_ or _probation_ and affliction, distress or hardship; and particularly an _affliction whereby one is tried, proved, or tested_. A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885
Italy has been afflicted by political corruption for decades.
This particular example highlights two additional shortcomings which afflict our conventional political institutions.
Its tendency to promote human happiness, and its sovereign eiBcaey to tranquillize the mind and administer con - solation 'under afflictions, disappointments, and trials. Memoirs of the Life of Martha Laurens Ramsay: With an Appendix Containing Extracts from Her ...
It signifies many kinds of skin afflictions including eczema, acne, and boils.
Let's get to another e-mail from Mike in New York, who wants to know, "Is there any hope for those who are afflicted with a condition known as alopecia areata? CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2004
This will remove the problems afflicting society, particularly those affecting the working class majority.
Sonia is a freak, and a picture of Sonia whose face bears the manifestations of the congenital syndrome that afflicts her oblique palpebral fissures, I have learned they are called, epicanthal folds, and a mouth that is disproportionately small will serve as a constant reminder to Dad that he created for the second time in his life a child with physical and mental imperfections. A Traitor to Memory
People so afflicted behave as if controlled from outside themselves. TUNNEL VISIONS: Journeys of an Underground Philosopher
Demand requital of Haman and not of Thy people, for he sought to annihilate us all at one stroke, he, the enemy and afflicter of Thy people, whom he endeavors to hem in on all sides. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4
He said not: Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be afflicted; but He said: Thou shalt not be overcome. Revelations of Divine Love
Another sufferer is "desahuiciado with lamparones y empeines," severe skin afflictions, but he, too, is cured after the holy soil is rubbed on him, as is another man who is suffering from "one hundred and ten sores. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
Johnny, in fact, had been born to the noise, moist air and flying lint of the mill, and had coughed from the day of his birth, afflicted with the lung disease that has invalided his mother. “I ain't never goin' to work again. . . . I'm plum tired out.”
Thousands visited the springs hoping for cures for afflictions including (according to one 1821 inventory) “Habitual Costiveness,” “Depraved appetite,” “Calculous and nephritic complaints,” “Cutaneous eruptions,” “Some species or states of gout,” “Some species of dropsy,” scrofula, amenorrhea, and dysmenorrhea. Off to the Races
What roles does affliction, the suffering constrained by the sense of God's palpable absence, play in divine providence, according to Herbert's poetry?
There are two main problems which afflict people with hearing impairments.
The 2 afflicted trematodes came from the same shark.
It seems strange to me, that the Lord Jesus Christ should commit this architectonical power in his house unto magistrates, foreseeing of what sort the greatest number of them would be, yea, determining that they should be such, for the trim and affliction of his own. The Sermons of John Owen
Violent crime is only one of the maladies afflicting modern society.
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And when Satan's eyes are called "baleful," the word, besides indicating the "huge affliction and dismay" that he feels, gives a hint of the woes that are in store for the victims on whom those eyes have not yet lit. Milton
He bore his affliction with a great dignity.
Those afflicted by this syndrome rationalize their cold-heartedness to themselves by "externalization" (finding outside enemies to blame for their failures) and "splitting" (attempting to hide something in their background that they are ashamed of). The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Swallowing fluoride creates dental fluorosis - white spotted, yellow, brown and / or stained teeth - now afflicting up to 48\% of school children, up to 4\% moderate / severe, according to the The CDC's 2001 fluoride recommendations says, "The laboratory and epidemiologic research that has led to the better understanding of how fluoride prevents dental caries indicates that fluoride's predominant effect is posteruptive and topical ... Scientific Blogging
Second, authors discuss the importance of palaeopathology for not simply learning about the health and afflictions of the ancients but for understanding diseases today. Books: Ancient Roadmap, Latin Revival, Mostly about Mummies
What has had the most profound impact on the gradual erosion of England's expectations over the past few months is the cruelly high number of injuries which have afflicted the squad.
Thus the successful combating of certain disturbances in the activities of the organs of internal secretion, as also of the deficiency diseases, or avitaminoses, has been a direct result of the increase in our knowledge of the nature of these afflictions. Physiology or Medicine 1945 - Presentation Speech
The heroes in both films were ordinary mortals destined to fight the afflictions of life.
Majestie in erth, making the Saitt of justice, quhilk aucht to be the sanctuary and refuge of all godlie and vertuouse personeis, injustlie afflictit, to be ane den and receaptakle to thevis, murtheraris, idolateris, huremongaris, adulteraris, and blasphemaris of God and all godlynes. The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
When Matthew Oates, the National Trust's roving butterfly expert, first described this affliction, it sounded quite pleasant: by August, butterfly lovers are so knackered, all they can do is sit in an armchair and wait for the last butterfly of summer, the brown hairstreak, to descend from an ash tree. How I became a lepidopterist
Health campaigners blame the power lines for the above average cancer rate that afflicts the area.
But here also he was afflicted in this his sorrow: of stich con - solation this his day of suffering bereaved him too. Sermons, for parochial and domestic use, designed to illustrate and enforce ...
The spotty leaves of Pulmonaria officinalis, or lungwort, indicated it could cure tuberculosis and other afflictions of the lungs.
Call it rather a sort of beggarly day-dreaming, during which the mind of the dreamer furnishes for itself nothing but laziness, and a little mawkish sensibility; while the whole materiel and imagery of the doze is supplied ab extra by a sort of mental camera obscura manufactured at the printing office, which pro tempore fixes, reflects, and transmits the moving phantasms of one mans delirium, so as to people the barrenness of a hundred other brains afflicted with the same trance or suspension of all common sense and all definite purpose. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, III footnote 1 « Unknowing
The board, no less afflicted than the fans, become jittery. Times, Sunday Times
Dilated cardiomyopathy, a heart disease found in humans, has afflicted the pygmy sperm whale and the dwarf sperm whale.
Local government services, afflicted by heavy cut-backs, have also been characterized by increasing politicization.
Taking heart from this sign, a sign of safe passage, he remains in afflicted London and sets about writing reports. Nobel Lecture - Literature 2003
This is how coenobitism grew out of eremitism not only in Calabria, but in every part of the world which has been afflicted with these eccentrics. Old Calabria
Notwithstanding this weak invention, Italy was still afflicted, Rome was again besieged, and the suburb of Classe, only three miles from Ravenna, was pillaged and occupied by the troops of a simple duke of Spoleto. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
As the week trudged on, I began to realize I was in the midst of the winter "blahs," an affliction that seems to grab hold of virtually every adult living in the Rustbelt during the winter, particularly February. Tonawanda News Homepage
One is able to regard the country as very healthy, despite the regrettable maladies that frequently afflict it in the form of plague, dysentery and small pox.
This helps to explain why, for example, when a calamity afflicted an entire region composed of people belonging to a common clan, all propitiatory religio-ritual ceremonies were directed to the founding ancestress. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
The first of these can be seen simply as a misfortune: Unity was an afflicted person and what could the family do but endure her affliction. Times, Sunday Times
Such matters include, for example, marital difficulties, anorexia, post-natal depression, physical and sexual abuse and other injuries, afflictions and misfortunes of an intimate and private nature.
A terrible restlessness that was like to hunger afflicted Martin Eden.
The causes of irritable bowel syndrome are poorly understood and the treatment can be ineffective, meaning that those it afflicts often suffer all their lives. Times, Sunday Times
Hypertrichosis is a medical term referring to a condition that exhibits as excessive body hair, the so-called werewolf syndrome, such as afflicts the now famous Mexican Wolf Boy. “Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot Massacre” Theory « Skid Roche
Sultan's Prime Minister, and Sultan Tattarassa, of Parágua Island, the latter afflicted with _locomotor ataxy_, came in, saluted us all, and took seats. The Philippine Islands
Then he wrote War Wolf, a satire in which a returning veteran afflicted with dioxin poisoning becomes a vengeful Communist werewolf. ABSOLUTE ZERO
One young acolyte has such a rictus from grinning at his master's jokes that it looks like a physical affliction.
I have to say I admire my own courage in admitting to suffering this affliction. Times, Sunday Times
People so afflicted behave as if controlled from outside themselves. TUNNEL VISIONS: Journeys of an Underground Philosopher
And then it follows, chapter 9: 1, "For the dimness shall not be like to that wherein it was ill with him, at what time the former [afflicter] lightly touched the land of Zabulon, and the land of From the Talmud and Hebraica
He was afflicted with a psychotic disorder called zoanthropy, and was reduced to acting like a brute beast of the field.
A couple of these essays are fatally infected by the logorrhoea that afflicts so much current architectural theory.
Yet the imbalances afflicting the eurozone are no less acute than those addressing the broader global economy. Times, Sunday Times
Far from being arrogant, today's doctors are diffident and afflicted by insecurity and self-doubt.
He listens to everyone and removes the pains and afflictions of all.
It found no cardiac benefit in those already somewhat afflicted by heart problems.
Hence the time of our sorrow and affliction is fixed at forty days; the state of blessed joy which shall be hereafter is figured in the quinquagesimal festival, i.e. the fifty days from Easter to Pentecost. Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew
This reform will not address the deeper problems afflicting higher education, which are intellectual rather than administrative. Times, Sunday Times
Another sufferer is "desahuiciado with lamparones y empeines," severe skin afflictions, but he, too, is cured after the holy soil is rubbed on him, as is another man who is suffering from "one hundred and ten sores. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
Sir, of your valliance you should have held to your good vow, -- quoth the damozel, for now you see me sore perplexed and that you did not your devoir is my affliction. The Amazing Marriage — Volume 1
'unstaid minds,' it might administer just cause to think him the unfittest man that could be to offer at a comment upon Job, as seeming by this to have no more true sense of a good man in his afflictions than those Edomitish friends had, of whom Job complains, and against whom God testifies his anger. The Life of John Milton
It governs the feet and can be taken to indicate all diseases and afflictions that relate to them - athlete's foot, gout, aches and pains, lameness, ingrowing toenails, bunions, etc.
Do you not know that the tarantula, which is no bigger than a threepenny bit,70 has only to touch the mouth and it will afflict its victim with pains and drive him out of his senses. Memorabilia
That is the vice is so entrenched, so enrooted that the person afflicted does not feel sick anymore. Slimy Love. Racism as a Private Hell.
He's badly afflicted with a skin disorder.
At least two rounds of antibiotics and decolonization did not break the pattern, and there was no way to determine whether she was afflicted with a persistent bug, or being recontaminated by someone else. SUPERBUG
Tax relief adds to that, the idea that taxation is an affliction, and that's a republican idea.
River floods are respecters of neither wealth nor status, and both developed and developing countries have been severely afflicted in recent years, across every continent.
As the chart above shows, federal government spending is not subject to the wild swings that afflict investment, so it helps to stabilize GDP and jobs--if it is big enough. L. Randall Wray: Budgetary Impasse: Is There an Alternative to Hoovernomics?
Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits. Archive 2007-12-01
And afflicted people will tacitly struggle against such connotations until the spectrum of acceptance broadens and mental impediments are no longer considered disabilities, but respected facts of life.
Note, Those who have been sharers with each other in afflictions and mercies, dangers and deliverances, ought in consideration thereof to unite for their joint and mutual safety and protection; and it is likely to be well with the church when Ephraim and Judah are one against the Philistines. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
They continued free from the hallucinations for two years, when first the mother, and then gradually all the other members of the family, again became afflicted with demonomania and were again sent to the asylum, when, after a residence therein of five months, they were all sufficiently cured to return home. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
The problem is compounded by my developing cyberchondria, which is a particularly 21st century-type of an affliction, referring as it does to the inflation of worries about your state of health based on material you have dredged up online. WalesOnline - Home
A spiritual vacuum afflicts many people.
The minute division of labour in the production process,and increasing interdependency in trade and economy is evident in the financial crisis afflicting us at the end of this century. Economic activity is no longer purely a matter of production, trade and barter. It is a means to satisfy human desires of every kind. Within it, there is an element of unequal relationship between the strong and the weak.
This was just one of five equine fatalities in the last ten days to afflict the Hobbs yard, which is otherwise in auspicious form. Times, Sunday Times
Even the least sophisticated found it easy to blame the chronic unemployment which afflicted Britain on the war.
She has been much afflicted by this sad news.
These include gastrointestinal problems and diarrhea afflicting children, and respiratory infections, cholera, typhoid, and typhus afflicting adults.
All of us afflicted by landlords merely vow to hate them without mercy for the entire day.
The situation in which she found her was truly alarming, for the shock she had sustained seemed to have overwhelmed every superior faculty; she appeared the very statue of despair; she neither moved, spoke, nor wept; and that sensibility which was ever alive to the afflictions of others was smothered to stupifaction in her gentle bosom. The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale
Indeed, without the apathy now afflicting the union movement, he might not be in his job. The Sun
From these indiscretions and their consequences may be dated all his bodily sufferings in future life: in short, rheumatism sadly afflicting him, while the remedies only slightly alleviated his sufferings, without hope of a permanent cure; though confined to his bed, his mind, ever active, still allowed him time to continue the exercise of his intellectual powers, and afforded him leisure for contemplation. The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838
But the worst of it is, that in such afflictions as yours is, the idea of ever becoming comforted is altogether loathsome, and so, my darling, I can do you no good. Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
In averring that his wound will not heal — I will never be so protected and I will never be so loved, he seems to mourn — Davies forces his audience to recognize that they are similarly afflicted. Intimate History
And because thou rescuest people from difficulties whether when they are afflicted in the wilderness or sinking in the great ocean, it is for this that thou art called Durga [10] by all. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7
They crush Your people, O Lord, And afflict Your heritage.
Some anthropologists dismissed the specimens as simply showing evidence of a miserable community afflicted by microcephaly, Laron syndrome, cretinism or other ailments that might produce similar physical features. Bones That Tell a Tale
What makes this affliction especially frustrating is that I feel I properly maintain the machine. Handheld power equipment won’t start? Maybe it’s the ethanol
She looks so frail, so delicate, and surely she is also what we call afflicted, peculiar. Ringfield A Novel
Wolf's previous books were afflicted with their own share of self-absorption and ‘eclectic’ musings.
To be sure, the social and economic problems afflicting these nations are acute, but the current crisis is at root a political one, and progress will not come without serious reform.
Accordingly, "Though servile to all the skyey influences, it is thou, breath as thou art, that dost hourly afflict thy body with the results of sin. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
Unfortunately it get direct sunlight, and is afflicted with algae.
And for one in afflictions to give thanks looseth his sins; and almsgiving, which is greater than all. NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
As everyone recognises, the rebuilding of New Orleans and the rest of the afflicted Gulf region will be an epic political dogfight.
Changing to a high quality diet Most diseases that afflict people nowadays are caused by faulty nutrition. Successful Fasting -the easy way to cleanse your body of its poisons
The poultry-yard, stables, and cow-shed, relegated to the buildings near the pheasantry and hidden by clumps of trees, instead of afflicting the eye with their foul details, now blended those soft murmurs and cooings and the sound of flapping wings, which are among the most delightful accompaniments of Nature's eternal harmony, with the peculiar rustling sounds of the forest. Sons of the Soil
The word from the World Health Organisation is that by the year 2020, depression will be the second most common health problem afflicting our population.
The sick bees exhibited genetic damage that could account for the die-off, and that damage indicated that they might be afflicted with multiple viruses simultaneously.
He highlights the grinding poverty and harvesting problems which still afflict the population.
This was to me a great affliction. Christianity Today
But,” added he, at seeing the old woman’s uneasiness at his discourse, “affliction may gie him a jagg, and let the wind out o’ him, as out o’ The Heart of Mid-Lothian
He must learn to relax more, not be racked by the tortured tenseness that had afflicted him for the past weeks.
Were it not a bad time for a bibliopolists, bibliomaniacs, bibliographers, and bibliotheques which hinder bibliolatry, he would have given them in a bumper, and not drop by drop as if he were afflicted with dysury of the brain. Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine
They may grant you power, honour, and riches but afflict you with servitude, infamy, and poverty.
These paradoxes often seem bewildering to those not afflicted with the football disease. Times, Sunday Times
The muscles can be afflicted by esoteric diseases such as myasthenia gravis. Times, Sunday Times

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