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"afflict" Definitions
  1. to affect somebody/something in an unpleasant or harmful way

322 Sentences With "afflict"

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But it isn't supposed to afflict a healthy young person.
And factors that affect one city may not afflict another.
Your job is to afflict the comfortable, comfort the afflicted.
Since then, dark money has continued to afflict our elections.
Journalists exist to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.
It is a coincidence that seems to afflict Mourinho's teams.
As the administration knows, many flaws afflict the current immigration system.
Allred believes the cancer won't afflict her daughter, now an Auburn senior.
These are diseases that afflict less than one person in a million.
There are institutional biases that afflict the places we live and work.
But it was the uncertainty that seemed to afflict people the most.
The ad for "Showstopper" wasn't the only odd interruption to afflict Spotify customers.
VLADIMIR PUTIN, it seems, is impervious to the woes that afflict normal leaders.
But problems of inadequate governance afflict active managers as well as passive ones.
A war against the bouts of social narcissism that afflict the upper classes.
Postpartum depression can afflict biological moms and dads as well as adoptive parents.
But the battle about what it should be began to afflict the pages.
Cancer may afflict him in many ways: But it will not make him surrender.
Problems also afflict Medicare Advantage, which unlike traditional Medicare, provides coverage through private plans.
But for many illnesses that afflict the world's poorest people, future funding is uncertain.
Cancer may afflict him in many ways, but it will not make him surrender.
The forces that would eventually afflict the American middle class came early to Worcester.
The letter from the F.D.A. is just the latest headache to afflict Whole Foods.
What diseases afflict more Americans every day than cancer, diabetes or even heart disease?
Cancer may afflict him in many ways: but it will not make him surrender.
Aside from bad laws, frayed infrastructure and limited funding also afflict the voting process.
As part of this shift, the crisis has also begun to afflict different people.
Anhedonia, the inability to feel pleasure, can afflict both men and women with cancer.
Unexpected convulsions can also afflict feverish children, accident victims or people with other neurological conditions.
Yet it has been buffeted by the problems that afflict the rest of the kingdom.
But Dr Huch's twist was to grow not organs, but the tumours that afflict them.
While other issues afflict the city, crime is always the first to come to mind.
" Women are condemned for using "their malicious magic to afflict unchallenged spheres of male power.
Hemingway was a man who embraced every self-indulgence that can afflict a successful person.
Economists have a term for describing the problems that afflict all-you-can-eat buffets.
The same problems afflict the discussion about the way economic inequality maps onto health inequality.
AC: Uh, well, I guess the old saying is 'Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Perhaps the problem is the sheer number of deaths that afflict the crew of the Shepard.
Life-threatening ailments like heart disease, cancer, stroke and Type 2 diabetes most often afflict adults.
Economic desperation has led them to Hpakant, where drug addiction, H.I.V. and malaria afflict wildcat miners.
Neuroendocrine tumors afflict about 171,000 people in the United States and it's an often-misunderstood disease.
She lives to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted, a good sign in any writer.
"Hysteria"—from the Greek, hystera, "uterus"—was believed to afflict women since the times of Plato.
Reuters reported in December that traffic jams caused by the project could afflict an already busy area.
But as machines displace humans in production, their incomes will face the same pressures that afflict humans.
That suggests that the campus stunts, disturbing as they may be, afflict only a fraction of students.
You don't want to afflict people that could already be locked in a struggle with their identity.
Both artists assign themselves an evergreen social mission: to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.
It suffers from the dysfunctions that afflict countries that have giant bureaucratic states lying heavy on society.
Chronic diseases afflict 120 million Americans and account for an astounding 75 percent of U.S. healthcare spending.
Which is to say, to use an old journalism bromide: Afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.
Take dementia, which currently affects 5m Japanese (4% of the population), and will afflict 6-7% by 2030.
Fears of a no-deal Brexit continue to afflict the pound, which was last down 0.3% at $1.2120.
This issue is reminiscent of "gain of function" studies in which viruses are genetically tweaked to afflict humans.
More recently, Mr Dorsey has been trying to massage away the aches and pains that afflict his creation.
Lyme disease, symptoms of which can afflict patients years after the initial tick bite, appears to be one.
Snicker if you want, but a journalist's primary mission is to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.
But all of it is sincere, with none of the self-aware posturing that can afflict modern restaurants.
With these 3D animations, she focuses on bugs that afflict humans: dengue, chlorella, the human papillomavirus, and adenovirus.
In The Square, the crises that afflict Christian are more obviously farcical, and intersect with his professional life.
The reform ought to reduce such legal risks, which can afflict firms whether they observe the rules or not.
A well-kept lawn is one of the most common mixed blessings with which homeowners can treat/afflict themselves.
In it, Lex Luthor's shenanigans afflict Superman with a cancer-like condition that gives him one year to live.
I write this in case you intend to afflict an innocent and unoffending public with any more such works.
Treatment for 30 critical illnesses that afflict the elderly in China will be covered by the policy, Starbucks said.
But it is rooted in problems that afflict Brazil's entire political system, not just its right or its left.
Priestly crimes do not end at the doors of the church; they afflict neighborhoods and cities and states, too.
Why is there so much human suffering and why does it afflict the righteous as well as the unrighteous?
We use natural methods in this chemically intensive industry where a number of viruses, diseases and mites afflict bees.
The Bosnian conflict was Europe's bloodiest since World War Two and ethnic divisions still afflict the ex-Yugoslav republic.
At the other end of the spectrum, Kimmitt said there are some common mistakes that typically afflict failed companies.
So far, FEMA has authorized the minimal response to one of the biggest natural disasters to afflict American citizens.
Nevertheless, African-American communities continue to suffer disproportionately from the sort of problems that afflict parts of the South Side.
Germany's migrant communities by and large lack the aura of helplessness that can afflict parts of French or Belgian cities.
Zika is now a global emergency, and the latest in a long string of mosquito-borne viruses to afflict humanity.
Furthermore, doctors warn of deep vein thrombosis which can afflict passengers who don't move their legs enough on longer flights.
Until recently, scientists had little idea about what causes scoliosis, which usually begins to afflict its sufferers in their teens.
In aggregate, that could have big implications for Trump's ability to navigate through the difficult times that afflict every president.
Nostalgic delusion would afflict Max Fischer, who longs to embody the fading traditions of the prep school that expels him.
Buttigieg has devoted attention to big structural problems that afflict our democracy, and has proposed solutions that are genuinely radical.
Individually, the 6900,2628 known rare diseases may be uncommon, but taken together, they afflict a staggering 28503 in 22019 Americans.
Sadly for us, spillovers from animals occur with disturbing frequency, accounting for most of the infectious diseases that afflict our species.
It has failed to develop many kinds of drugs, including new vaccines and treatments for diseases that mainly afflict the poor.
Online bidding for reconstruction projects, for example, can help avoid the kickbacks and inflated prices that often afflict post-disaster procurement.
They reportedly afflict about 40 percent or more of marathon runners and frequently cause racers to drop out of the event.
Failures in the French security and intelligence services cannot account for the difference, because communication problems afflict such services throughout Europe.
Civil's representatives said they could help fix two crises that afflict the media: one of trust and another of financial sustainability.
When Dr Flake's team subsequently dissected them, they found no evidence of the strokes that sometimes afflict premature babies in conventional incubators.
Having tasted the suffering and degradation to which vulnerability can lead, the people are bidden not to afflict or mistreat the stranger.
Yet it would be naive to believe that the latest proposals will do much to right the problems that afflict Britain's economy.
And scientists at Harvard Medical School are investigating the genetic causes for congenital heart defects, which afflict approximately 35,000 newborns each year.
It found that both can occur in the same country, the same organization or health facility, and even afflict the same patient.
During the frequent downturns that afflict the industry, any firm that invests in capital, and thereby raises its fixed costs, is vulnerable.
Insurers, after all, make long-term investments, and are not normally subject to the sorts of panics and runs that afflict banks.
Meanwhile, breaches such as the ones at Marriott -- that affected about 500 million consumers -- Quora, and Dunkin' Donuts continue to afflict Americans.
Cataracts usually afflict the old, but doctors in Africa have been shocked to find them in Ebola survivors as young as 5.
He says the traffic congestion, air pollution and high housing costs that afflict big cities result from poor management rather than overpopulation.
Sickle cell comes with excruciatingly painful complications known as a 'sickle cell crisis' where sudden episodes of severe pain afflict the patient's body.
To most other EU countries, indeed, Brexit is just one more ingredient in a cocktail of often more pressing problems that afflict them.
Except this is also when it's at its best because it's also comforted the afflicted by allowing them to directly afflict the comfortable.
The aggressions of political life could not bend him ... cancer may afflict him in many ways; but it will not make him surrender.
It will slow the fight against the many diseases that afflict us, as well as carry negative economic consequences for the United States.
"Home improvement has remained a retail bright spot even as a myriad of headaches continue to afflict the broader retail industry," Fahy added.
A rare neurological illness is continuing to afflict dozens of young kids across the country — worrying federal health officials and freaking out parents.
Cataracts usually afflict the old, not the young, but doctors have been shocked to find them in Ebola survivors as young as 5.
None of those problems afflict the air traffic systems of some 60 other countries that have been "corporatized" over the last 30 years.
The baby was given a diagnosis of encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, which is thought to afflict just 16 children around the world.
Polls in Brazil suffer from problems that also afflict other countries, but these problems can be accentuated because of limitations with Brazilian polls.
"I'm the guy that's supposed to spend it all, right?" jokes Lee about the third generation curse that seems to afflict family-run businesses.
Scandals afflict listed firms too, but one thing you do not hear from executives at public companies is complaints about the absence of scrutiny.
An estimated 3,000 children have Congenital Zika Syndrome, the collection of neurological disorders that afflict the babies of mothers infected with Zika during pregnancy.
So when they hear accusations of racism, they feel like what they see as the "real" issues — those that afflict them — are getting neglected.
The little malices with which we afflict each other when we know the relationship is over but don't have the courage to end it.
There's an old saying that the role of the journalist is to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted, but the saying is wrong.
While preexisting conditions can afflict young people, they're more common among older people, particularly the preexisting condition with the highest death rate: heart disease.
Many of the problems we've identified — poor planning, sloppy procurement, weak oversight — are not unique to the reconstruction effort, but afflict all federal agencies.
As usual, Republicans seek to afflict the afflicted and comfort the comfortable, but they don't treat all Americans with a given income the same.
In the United States, this disease is known to afflict 23 different species in the wild, most especially rat snakes, milk snakes, and garter snakes.
Illustration: Richard Tennant Cooper 22014-2100/Wellcome ImagesLeprosy is one of the oldest known diseases to afflict humans, yet its origin is mired in controversy.
For Grindr employees, Into's untimely demise was the culmination of the internal rifts and tactical missteps that continue to afflict the company to this day.
He suffered from chronic asthma, a condition that doctors said would be nearly impossible to eradicate and would likely afflict the boy throughout his life.
"You are a despicable divider; the worse social poison to afflict our country in decades," Cardenas tweeted in a post that has since been deleted.
Many wonder why outside aid has flooded in for Ebola, but not for malaria, diarrhea or other common, debilitating diseases that afflict many more people.
From the dawn of his mayoralty, Mr. Buttigieg has wrestled with the sort of complicated issues of race and criminal justice that afflict communities nationwide.
Ending visits on all but Friday, Saturday and Sunday would only worsen the long lines and weekend overcrowding that already afflict many prison visiting rooms.
" McReynolds had joined with fellow justices Pierce Butler and Willis Van Devanter in urging President Herbert Hoover not to "afflict the court with another Jew.
The menace, which predates comic books, comes from ancient Christian tradition: a group of fundamental vices that afflict the heart, called the seven deadly sins.
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Now a worthy target is crying out for President Trump's extraordinary reach: The so-called "four famines" that currently afflict South Sudan, Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen.
You don't have to be an epidemiologist to realize that infectious diseases make their own preferential option for the poor—they afflict them more, and worse.
"You are a despicable divider; the worse social poison to afflict our country in decades," Al Cardenas, the Florida Republican Party's former chairman, said on Twitter.
For all his wide-eyed eagerness, he bore a strain of old-fashioned Western superiority that can afflict both the social scientist and the avid tourist.
And for the rest of the week, temperatures far below normal and dangerous cold wind chills will afflict much of the central and eastern United States.
No single approach is likely to help everyone, except for one: a basic awareness of how swallowing disorders can afflict young and old, active and moribund.
The anxiety-inducing scenarios that commonly afflict Millennial women—workplace and street harassment, job stagnation, sexual frustration—have always been ripe with potential for dark comedy.
But I can teach him one famous aphorism about what the true job of the news media is: To comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Although my migraines were not nearly as bad as those that afflict many other people, they took a toll on my work, family life and recreation.
Barry also flips comedy's tasteless flair for gun violence on its ear, something Hader was hyper-conscious of as mass shootings continue to afflict the country.
But the violence, community leaders and social workers say, is also a symptom of the grave problems that afflict the region's underclass, reflecting longstanding government neglect.
He had a volatile relationship with his father, a World War II fighter pilot who developed an alcohol problem, something that would later afflict the son.
The pain didn't abate, and Mantel suffered from complications that still afflict her: her weight increased, her legs swelled, she felt exhausted and alien to herself.
Migraines afflict about ten per cent of people with headaches, but a much larger percentage of those who see doctors, because migraines are difficult to control.
And women want help in dealing with the problems of mental health, opioid addiction and other forms of substance abuse that afflict so many American families.
But an unenchanted view of generals, as of other human beings, tells us that ambition, wishful thinking and unfounded self-confidence can afflict any of us.
That has caused stronger drought and - given that coffee is a crop sensitive to both moisture and temperature - a worsening of diseases that afflict coffee berries.
Some argued that it would divert donations from diseases that afflict many more people than the six thousand who receive a diagnosis of A.L.S. every year.
Dutton's comments suggest that further political instability will continue to afflict the government in the final two days of parliament's sitting before it breaks until September.
She communicates the depths of boredom, loneliness and depression that afflict expatriate communities, and "The Last Post" gets interesting, rather than just pretty, whenever she's onscreen.
It's telling that Trump fears only the threats that can be blamed on outsiders while ignoring the more lethal, more pervasive killers that afflict the citizenry.
From The Searchers to Unforgiven, the shifts in the Western genre reflected the loss of moral legibility that had come to afflict the nation as a whole.
That was after a defense witness argued that Mr. Couch suffered from "affluenza" — a term used to describe the psychological problems that can afflict children of privilege.
Beneath this relatively benign picture of modern, multicultural marriage, there are hints at the troubles that continue to disproportionately afflict gay men, such as addiction and depression.
" Citing the Justice Department, he said there are "more than 300,000 instances of rape or other sexual assault that afflict our neighbors and loved ones every year.
If he is tarnished by the hoohah over his taxes, his own wealth or the random events that afflict prime ministers, the risk of Brexit will rise.
He joked about his age — and the common maladies that afflict men over 50 — suggesting that he felt far older than he did when he became president.
I'll say this, though: We should be careful, as individuals, not to blame ourselves for things that afflict us, that actually result from these more overarching levels.
Gunmen have killed up to nine members of a US Mormon family, believed to be mainly children, in the latest massacre to afflict Mexico, family members said.
This one river brings together the range of tensions that currently afflict Western water rights and will affect more and more of us in the coming decades.
The "sustainable planet" education can offer a way to alleviate the boredom that seems to afflict students and engage them in new discoveries to combat climate change.
Evie is 14 years old as The Girls opens, and she's stuck in one of those pockets of dead time that can afflict you at that age.
The goal: to effectively cure the disease with just one administration, righting the genetic mistakes that afflict the families of 250 babies born in the U.S. each year.
As the New York Times noted, the breach will continue to afflict customers for years if not decades, while Equifax charges $17 a month for identity-theft protection.
This seems like a rejection of the kind of programs, focused on extreme poverty and disease that primarily afflict the developing world, that you were just talking about.
Much of the gap is explained by greater rates of chronic illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease, which afflict poor and poorly educated black men in particular.
In Mozambique alone he can see many of the woes that afflict his burgeoning flock across Africa: terrorism, interfaith conflict, environmental harm and the spectre of state failure.
The project of European integration is under siege from the same forces of nationalism and populism that afflict Poland: Britain is negotiating its exit from the European Union.
"Epidemic diseases are not random events that afflict societies capriciously and without warning," writes Frank M. Snowden in Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present.
He said he did not know if Sergeant Walters, who served two yearlong tours in Afghanistan, had suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, known to afflict some veterans.
The "should have known better" feelings that often afflict people who are hit with financial difficulties were especially tough for Francis, she said, because she is a financial expert.
It could not be clearer: Years of tighter rules from legislators and bank regulators have done nothing to fix the toxic, me-first cultures that afflict big financial firms.
The country spends tens of billions of dollars in importing food, as dated technologies, poor yields, shrinking farms and unreliable weather patterns afflict the country of 1.3 billion people.
The incident, which affected a complex in the Ajman Emirate, to the north of Dubai, is the third such fire to afflict the Emirates in just over a year.
"By throwing up our hands about the calamities that could one day afflict us, we disguise and distance them, converting concrete choices into indecipherable dread," Monbiot wrote in April.
There's also a pressing need for greater investment in research that can accelerate the discovery of medical cures, particularly with regard to cancers and diseases that disproportionately afflict children.
At the same time, she had episodes of depression—the beginnings of a disease that continues to afflict her—though she did not yet have a name for them.
The concerns play into longstanding frustrations, dating from to the financial crisis, that top managers are rarely required to take personal responsibility for the problems that afflict financial institutions.
A third of these preventable events are likely to afflict people aged 250 to 103, these experts, Dr. Janet S. Wright, Hilary K. Wall and Matthew D. Ritchey, calculated.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A former Dutch professional footballer who played for clubs in Portugal, Hungary and England has been shot dead in the latest violence to afflict Amsterdam, police said.
As noted, the rat-specific version of hepatitis E may be different than the one known to normally afflict humans, requiring scientists to keep a close watch on the situation.
"Fossils allow us to understand the evolution of diseases in deep time and have the potential to provide clues as to the causes of diseases that afflict humans," Whitney said.
Then there are the side effects that afflict the living -- 16 million Americans suffer from smoking-related diseases ranging from cancer to heart disease to collapsed lungs to gum disease.
The same problems that afflict other digital platforms recur in this realm, from scams to fake accounts: 10% of all newly created dating profiles do not belong to real people.
Fears of a no-deal Brexit now that Boris Johnson is prime minister continue to afflict the pound, although it was fractionally higher against a weakening euro at 91.17 pence .
Fears of a no-deal Brexit under Prime Minister Boris Johnson continue to afflict the pound, while the weak data and central bank outlook kept downward pressure on the euro.
One in seven people in the U.S. experience migraine headaches, but they are most common in women and may afflict up to one in four women aged 18 to 44.
Mr. Couch's case received widespread attention after a defense witness argued that Mr. Couch suffered from "affluenza," a term used to describe psychological problems that can afflict children of privilege.
Kavanaugh's accession to the high court will infect it with even deeper partisanship, afflict it with disrespect, call into question the legitimacy of its judgments and denigrate a vital institution.
The No. 1-ranked player in the world is also the top seed at Wimbledon and, has finally broken a psychological barrier that seemed to afflict her in major finals.
Unlike the cells in subcutaneous fat, visceral fat is essentially an endocrine organ that secretes hormones and a host of other chemicals linked to diseases that commonly afflict older adults.
Many of the hurdles that afflict regular first-time home buyers will persist for rentvestors — and new ones, such as higher borrowing costs for buy-to-let mortgages, may arise.
And is the answer connected to the eerie premonitions and visitations that begin to afflict people connected to the case, including the wives of Anderson and Maitland (Winningham and Nicholson)?
However, breaking up Facebook doesn't solve the underlying issues that afflict social media, such as the spread of false information or manipulating the ad targeting system for political purposes, he said.
But health activists and doctor groups estimate that around 200 people have died from malaria over the last year nationwide, and fear the illness is starting to afflict populated urban centers.
One of its stated goals was to "afflict the comfortable," which it usually did, except when it was punching down at anonymous midlevel executives, at political enemies and sometimes at children.
The same ache, I imagined, would afflict those who now looked at photos of my son—he died at about the age Lily and Tuan were when they fell in love.
In this work, which has been revised after previous versions unveiled at festivals in 2016, Ms. Bullock probes the cruelties and constraints that molded Baker and continue to afflict black artists.
Now, I get that I'm coming from a place of privilege with this — there are many more serious struggles that afflict other families, and I'm arguably blessed to be burdened with loudness.
Public health advocates have long criticized pharmaceutical companies for failing to invest in remedies for diseases that primarily afflict people in developing countries or ones that do not have a reliable market.
Where it stands: Such dramatic demographic changes are accelerating a shift from the infectious and nutritional diseases that mostly affect children to cancer and the other noncommunicable diseases that mostly afflict adults.
I have made it my mission to both help patients save their legs and influence policymakers to adopt smarter policies to help eliminate the painful PAD disparities that afflict communities of color.
And some pandemics -- like HIV -- continue to afflict us, after more than half a million deaths in the US and and 32 million worldwide, despite developing drugs that now keep people alive.
Even if instructors align themselves with these individuals and other progressive causes, they still might use homophobic language without realizing it is offensive, or unintentionally trivialize issues that afflict the LGBTQ community.
His actions don't so much make him a hypocrite as reveal him to be yet another of the clueless, puffed-up patriarchs who afflict Romanian cinema (and not only that, of course).
The man exhibited unusual and recurrent liver dysfunction following the transplant, the BBC reports, with subsequent tests revealing the presence of a "highly divergent" version of the hepatitis E known to afflict humans.
People from around the world had flown into the small town of Mendon (population: 9,000) to learn how to fix touch disease and other common problems that afflict iPad and iPhone logic boards.
In the presidential debates and at campaign rallies, Donald J. Trump has indulged a fondness for the equation of black life and hell: Happiness is scarce, and misery, poverty and violence afflict all.
Another is that two groups have been conflated into one, creating a false impression of causality: Consumption has declined mainly among more educated, wealthier Americans, while obesity and diabetes disproportionately afflict the poor.
"It is important to attend to the needs that afflict the faith as a result of this time of border crisis," according to a statement from the diocese, in the city of Cúcuta.
Fictitious memories do not only afflict those who have been traumatized; people with stable backgrounds also struggle to distinguish between experiences that they had themselves and those they absorbed through someone else's stories.
Research shows that about a third of people with dementia also have depression, and that anxiety symptoms afflict roughly a quarter to half of patients with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.
He held his book aloft and cried, And De-li-lah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.
Currently, Bitcoin exchanges are virtually unregulated and subject to all the usual problems that afflict unregulated financial markets, including outright theft, fraud, Ponzi schemes, spoofing, pumping and dumping, wash sales and other manipulations.
The meeting was engineered by Amanda out of the mixed motives that afflict most parents: a genuine desire to see her daughter settled, and a projection of her own fantasies onto her child.
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The idea at the heart of "Upheaval" is that the insights which help people cope with personal crises, such as crushing disappointment, divorce or bereavement, can also shed light on those that afflict states.
It assumes we've not only cured all known diseases, we've cured age-related diseases we don't even know about yet (perhaps there are some diseases that wouldn't afflict us until we're several centuries old?).
Unlike the kinds of inflammatory diseases that tend to afflict those in high-income countries, such as Crohn's disease, gut inflammation in places like the slums of Kenya and Bangladesh might actually be beneficial.
The Enquirer is defined by its predatory spirit—its dedication to revealing that celebrities, far from leading ideal lives, endure the same plagues of disease, weight gain, and family dysfunction that afflict everyone else.
With mothers and medical providers clamoring for answers about postpartum depression, scientists are beginning a major effort to understand the genetic underpinnings of mood disorders that afflict millions of women during and after pregnancy.
For Hindus, the city's ghats — flights of stone steps along the banks of the Ganges — are the site of liberation, or moksha, from the sins that afflict them in the earthly drama of life.
The diseases he studies afflict the poorest of the poor; they spread in places where bare feet routinely mingle with open sewage and where people have only contaminated water to drink and bathe in.
It is not the first line of treatment for the kinds of problems that typically afflict gymnasts, like lower back and hip pain, which are less likely to require internal vaginal manipulations, experts say.
And while some of the season's new movies will offer relief from real-world troubles (that's entertainment!), others will invariably engage the cultural and social division, suspicion and recrimination that afflict the present moment.
Certainly, buyer's remorse might afflict Election Day voters, too, if hypothetically speaking, a candidate wins an election, but it comes out afterward that the candidate's campaign may have illegally colluded with a foreign power.
This, despite the Republican mantra that tighter control of mentally troubled individuals — not stronger gun control — is the better way to deal with the mass shootings and gun carnage that regularly afflict the nation.
Traffic jams could afflict New York City's heavily traveled West Side Highway for three years as a multibillion-dollar train tunnel is built under the Hudson River, draft proposals obtained exclusively by Reuters show.
As a new study published in Scientific Advances points out, this infectious disease, which is known to afflict a handful of snake species in the United States and Europe, could soon reach global, pandemic proportions.
Two former Cubana employees and several industry analysts say the airline's troubles stem largely from dual ills that afflict many parts of Cuba's state-run economy: the U.S. trade embargo and a problematic business model.
If the proposals work as promised, the police won't have to abandon "broken windows" policing, but they will be less likely to afflict so many New Yorkers with arrest warrants, rap sheets and jail time.
Though Amar's problems are larger and more historic in scale than the ones that afflict Alice or Ezra (he is racially profiled; members of his family get killed), Halliday grants him apolitical, intricately private thoughts.
On a broader level, this hourlong movie is an unsettling exploration of the kind of stasis that can afflict young men who used to venture into the job market by selling encyclopedias door to door.
In contrast to a strike, blue flu — a condition that has also been known to afflict police officers — is a quiet form of protest, with no stated principles or claim for public attention or sympathy.
Test and pay for the mood and behavioral symptoms associated with the disease that tend to afflict individuals at younger ages, and not just the cognitive symptoms that tend to begin later in life 3.
A Jewish 17-year-old, inflamed by the Black Lives Matter movement and the cause of L.G.B.T. rights, told me recently there is no anti-Semitism, certainly nothing compared with the prejudices that afflict other minorities.
Concerned about the forest fires that afflict Indonesia each year, environment minister Siti Nurbaya has said it is very important that forestry companies operating in peatland areas comply with the rules as peatland areas "burn easily".
The Gates Foundation was formed in 240 and has grown exponentially in size and influence since then, focusing mainly on equalizing of the quality of human life by addressing the problems that afflict the world's poorest.
However, a few things can explain why cancer is seemingly missing from ancient history: Cancer tends to afflict older people, and almost all of the mummies analyzed in the study were under 50 years of age.
On the campaign trail, she frequently cites her heritage, and she makes the argument that many of the issues affecting native communities — the ubiquity of low-wage jobs, violence against women — afflict other groups as well.
During one relapse, she shared a needle and contracted hepatitis C, a viral infection of the liver that, according to one study, may afflict as many as 50 percent of pregnant women with opioid-use disorder.
At least, the optimistic take goes, this will bring some certainty to a venture that has been beset by virtually every problem that can afflict massive foreign investments: environmental worries; corruption scandals; technical setbacks; cost overruns.
The notoriously combative online community that is pop diva Stan Twitter even started a joke about a "Becky G curse" that seemed to afflict the career of any other stars who so much as collaborated with her.
Dementia, the syndrome caused by several brain illnesses affecting memory, motor skills, thinking and behavior, affects 47 million people around the world and is projected to afflict 75 million by 2030, according to the World Health Organization.
The ability to control fire brought our ancestors countless benefits, but as a new study by Australian researchers suggests, it may have also triggered the spread of one of the worst blights to afflict our species: tuberculosis.
Qatar's energy minister told Reuters last week that even though stocks around the world were falling, an investment drought continued to afflict the oil industry and hence the price of crude could spike in the long run.
Though doctors who treat physical ailments do not routinely refer to evolution, their theories about bodies are based on the fact that humans, and the pathogens that afflict them, are the product of aeons of natural selection.
By definition, a rare disease accounts for no more than 200,000 patients but taken together, those conditions designated by the FDA afflict more than 30 million people in this country — almost one in 10 of all Americans.
Doubts can afflict Western mega-mergers too: at times the market was sceptical of Shell's purchase of BG Group and Anheuser-Busch InBev's acquisition of SABMiller, to take two recent examples of deals that did eventually succeed.
All 13 were tested for osteoarthritis (which Dolly also suffered from), as well as glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity, which could be linked to diabetes—all health issues known to afflict elderly humans, as well as sheep.
The vaccine, a weakened form of the polio virus that triggers the immune system's response, is secreted in the waste of vaccinated children, and over time can mutate into an infectious strain that may afflict the unvaccinated.
Long passages in Comey's thesis are also devoted to explicating the various sorts of pride that Niebuhr argued could afflict human beings — most notably, moral pride and spiritual pride, which can lead to the sin of self-righteousness.
"It's inhibiting Mexicans from openly debating the problems that afflict society and indirectly affecting the stability of the country's democracy," Lauria said during a presentation of a CPJ report on Mexico in the drug-ravaged state of Veracruz.
Not everyone believes that Twitter is doing a good job at this yet, or that it will ever really be able to solve issues around online abuse and hate speech, which afflict so many social media platforms today.
It also doesn't benefit anyone living with any mental illness, of any race or gender, for the prevailing narrative to be that such things only afflict under-occupied white women, except when they're afflicting violent, dangerous black men.
To most outsiders, the period was one of those episodes of unreason that can afflict a great nation, comparable, say, to France's reign of terror in 21950, though that nightmare lasted only ten months and claimed fewer lives.
Of the fifty-nine new drugs approved by the FDA in 2018, thirty-four (58 percent) were for patients with rare diseases, many of which are severely debilitating, but afflict only a tiny fraction of patients with diabetes.
If Democrats are to play Trump at his own game of hardball, some of the blame for a second round of missed paychecks due to afflict the government workforce on Friday may begin to cling to them, too.
He offered practical methods for achieving the goal, like using solar and wind to stay off the energy grid, and solutions for minimizing water use, particularly important as drought conditions afflict many parts of the wine-producing world.
Now, it's hoping to change that with the formation of a new committee of experts who will help TikTok craft its content moderation policies and increase transparency around these topics and others that afflict popular social media platforms.
Kenin's serve, which has been exceptional throughout the tournament, was once again on display and will need to remain a steady factor in her game to help her settle the nerves that can afflict any Grand Slam finalist.
He notes that the influx of ultras into Canelas happened five years ago, and yet fear only seemed to afflict its opponents when the team started this season unexpectedly well, winning six of its first seven actual games.
He has signed a deal to create a campus in Vienna, as a precaution, but he sees the troubles which afflict his charge set on a larger canvas, against the struggles within the European Union for its future.
A well-designed prize regime would lower drug prices by eliminating drug monopolies, yet it would also create the necessary incentives for innovation, including incentives to develop so-called "orphan" drugs (for diseases that afflict relatively few people).
The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note fell to a 2.140-month low Tuesday as Wall Street grew more certain that the U.S.-China trade war will last longer and afflict GDP growth more than first thought.
Yes, Buzzfeed has had the kinds of issues that afflict even the most elite journalistic outlets: a firing over plagiarism, an undue-advertiser-influence incident, a you-didn't-explicitly-warn-us-that-this-conversation-was-on-the-record complaint.
In California, drinking water contamination is most likely to afflict small, low-income communities of color, particularly Latino farmworker communities that have not benefited from the tremendous economic growth in the San Francisco Bay Area and other urban centers.
Getting too close to their faces revealed the plastic, uncanny valley issues that still afflict most CG characters in this kind of environment, but their body movements were nuanced and subtle, a step up from what I'd come to expect.
For Puerto Rico, it was the latest and most tragic in a litany of hardships to afflict the U.S. territory, ranging from a crippling $70 billion debt to an exodus of its youth to the United States in search of jobs.
The LRAD can instantly afflict anyone within 300 meters of the device with headaches and dizziness and prolonged exposure results permeant hearing loss—as it did for a protestor in Pittsburgh who settled a lawsuit against the city for $72,000.
A company website states PBA can afflict up to roughly 40% of dementia patients -- a figure that is based on an Avanir-funded survey and was repeatedly disputed by medical experts interviewed by CNN, including some of those paid by Avanir.
These problems — including losing jobs to automation or off-shoring, sky-rocketing costs of health care, the lack of access to education — afflict many Americans, such as those belonging to the 37 percent who continue supporting building a border wall.
By 20103, the band was selling out arena tours and experiencing remarkable critical and commercial successes—their fourth LP, Brothers and Sisters, became their third platinum album—but heroin addiction had begun to afflict the members and their relationships were strained.
There can be additional hurdles for drugs that treat what are often called "orphan" or "neglected" diseases, which are those that usually afflict communities in the global south that don't have the funds or political clout to make a drug profitable.
From the trailers it appears Spock has had troubling visions of a "red angel," which sounds like the kind of thing that would afflict denizens of the Force-filled galaxy far, far away; a supremely logical science officer, not so much.
But genetic technology is often the quickest route to seeing off the pests and diseases that afflict the continent more than other parts of the world, and is the best way of producing seeds that will flourish in a changing climate.
Some were vomiting, others had diarrhea, and all were listless, indicating that they had fallen victim to the latest disaster to afflict this impoverished corner of the Arabian Peninsula: one of the worst outbreaks of cholera infection in recent times.
And while extreme poverty continues to afflict large swaths of the population, North Korean society no longer conforms to a simplistic picture of haves and have-nots, but is home to an increasingly diverse and complex array of socioeconomic classes.
Both films center on figures whose assumptions about family and the future fall apart (Nicky in Suburbicon, Paul in Downsizing), and whose personal misfortunes are set up as small-scale equivalents of the systemic tragedies that afflict characters on the movies' outskirts.
The deep problems that afflict the Middle East are not easy to fix, but they must be dealt with if we are not to see a son of ISIS, or even a grandson of ISIS developing in the years to come. 3.
A Vatican statement spoke of the "important role Iran is called on to play, along with other countries in the region, to promote adequate political solutions to the problems that afflict the Middle East, combating the spread of terrorism and arms trafficking".
"I'm sorry that as a report that for so long ... I was struggling so hard to do my job I forgot that my job is to comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable and ask questions for those who have no voice," Karem added.
Its relative lack of wickedness—it seems to be mostly free of the misogyny and racism that afflict many other games and gaming communities—makes it more palatable to a broader audience, and this appeal both ameliorates and augments its addictive power.
One is that if your party's central mission is to comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted, you need to claim that all kinds of wonderful side effects will take place from what might otherwise look like a combination of greed and cruelty.
Greece is now ground zero for the two greatest challenges to afflict Europe in recent years: the debt crisis and Germany's insistence on austerity as the only cure, and the backlash against the wave of human migration from war-torn and impoverished countries.
They also state that the executive order risks the United States' status as the world's leader in biotech, adding, "It will slow the fight against the many diseases that afflict us, as well as carry negative economic consequences for the United States."
Scientists hope that the new insights into liver development and performance will yield novel therapies for the more than 100 disorders that afflict the organ, many of which are on the rise worldwide, in concert with soaring rates of obesity and diabetes.
Indeed, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other agencies are the largest sources of health research funding — not just in the United States, but worldwide — with the money used to develop therapies and find cures for the diseases that most afflict Americans.
Similar resentments, in which education, access to jobs, accent, dress and even diet are all now involved, bubble through the politics of democratic countries, and assume greater importance than the purely economic issues which afflict those on low incomes, in precarious employment or unemployed.
Traffic jams could afflict New York City's heavily traveled West Side Highway for three years as a multibillion-dollar train tunnel is built under the Hudson River, draft proposals obtained by Reuters show, feeding concern about an area already disrupted by massive real estate development.
The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves inversely to price, fell to a 19-month low Tuesday as Wall Street grew more certain that the U.S.-China trade war will last longer and afflict GDP growth more than first thought.
When you call people "junkies" or "scum," when even papers like the New York Times run stories that question the "consequences" of saving the lives of people with addiction, and when coverage often focuses on "demons" that supposedly afflict drug users, social stigma is reinforced.
Conservatives need to promise miracles to justify policies whose direct effect is to comfort the comfortable (cutting taxes on the rich) and afflict the afflicted (slashing social insurance); progressives only need to defend themselves against the charge that doing good will somehow kill economic growth.
When Oliver and Elio directly interact with each other, as in a memorable scene where they circle a fountain, much of their dialogue and action is about the dance of impossibility that also seems to afflict the characters in movies like Brokeback and Moonlight.
As Maya Jasanoff, professor of British and imperial history at Harvard University, argues in a new book that blends history and literary criticism, Conrad wrote "at the turn of the 20th century" of many of the global forces and perils that afflict the world today.
As Toni, a loner who gravitates from boxing toward dance, Hightower is as captivating as the film's elusive narrative, which begins just before a mysterious series of epileptic episodes begins to afflict members of the fictional Lionesses, played by members of the Q-Kidz.
But the findings also underscored the contribution of a patient's environment: If genes alone were responsible for schizophrenia, the disorder should afflict both members of every identical pair; instead, it appeared in both twins in only about half of the identical pairs in the study.
Taking the full measure of the Obama presidency thus far, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that this White House has one way of addressing the social ills that afflict black people — and particularly black youth — and another way of addressing everyone else.
That conflict of interest was one of many during the 2016 election that seemed to afflict Main Justice, as the Justice Department headquarters is known (and where I worked in the George W. Bush administration with Mr. Wray, whom I have known since law school).
In addition, errors within a closely related gene, involved in the same brain pathway controlling metabolism, are estimated to afflict some 2152,220 people in Britain, including as many as 2112 percent of white individuals in that country who have been severely obese since childhood.
Unlike other parts of Dodd-Frank, which are supposed to reduce the risk of a future financial crisis — and won't be fully tested until the next major shock hits — the bureau is designed to deal with problems that afflict consumers in good times and bad.
To see the syllabi of art schools' survey courses confirms that the same blind spots afflict our institutions of higher learning, leading to a community that's not only lacking in a diversity of voices and discourse, but, worse still, frequently oblivious to that lack.
Sleep apnea was once thought to be rare, but, now that there are sophisticated diagnostic tools to measure respiration and muscle contractions, it is known to afflict some two to three per cent of the U.S. population—five million men and two and a half million women.
But the modern G.O.P. always wants to comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted; so the bill ends up throwing away the taxes on the rich that help pay for subsidies, and redirects the subsidies themselves away from those who need them to those who don't.
The reorganization of scenes and songs, along with strong cuts taken to secondary characters, has not resulted in the bald patches that afflict so many jukebox musicals; "Jagged Little Pill" never feels like a coy concert or a greatest hits medley as it threatened to in Cambridge.
In the latest examination of the double standards that continue to afflict women in politics, voters were most concerned about how married and single mothers of young children would juggle responsibilities to their office and their family, but far less worried about fathers whose wives also worked.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Traffic jams could afflict New York City's heavily traveled West Side Highway for three years as a multibillion-dollar train tunnel is built under the Hudson River, draft proposals obtained by Reuters show, feeding concern about an area already disrupted by massive real estate development.
Mr. Geffen, Mr. Diller and their fellow moguls have deep enough pockets that they are unlikely to experience the sticker shock that would afflict an ordinary mortal when faced with the price tag on, say, the reversible baseball bomber sweater by Brunello Cucinelli offered at Bergdorf Goodman for $3,095.
In the past, families feeling financially constrained by life in the city would move to the suburbs, but under the new tax code that would be self-defeating because of the much-higher property taxes that afflict communities in Westchester County, on Long Island, in New Jersey and Connecticut.
Hallucinations afflict lookouts because, as Ishmael explains in Moby-Dick, they're up at odd hours and alone, parsing the "blending cadence of waves with thoughts" for danger, whales, or other vessels; the brain and eyes are inclined to make meaning and mirages of undifferentiated land- and seascapes where none exist.
Since the gates went up, the senior center has lost about 30 regular patrons, Ines de la Nuez, who runs Grand Street's programs for older people, said; she worries about the isolation that could afflict those who no longer come, and about the greater falloff that is inevitable during the winter.
A torrent of recent studies show how exactly those forces — diminished competition, rising profits and lower investment — afflict the US. Economists Jan de Loecker and Jan Eeckhout chart a rise in corporate mark-ups, a measure linked to profit margins, from 1972 per cent in 1980 to 67 per cent today.
Winnie in the flesh was a symbol of the uneasy implications and contradictions that lie underneath vague and sweeping calls for things like "resistance": that the urge to resist, truly and fully embraced, can lead to or even demand violence; that justice can afflict the comfortable, and that the comfortable might include us.
It is hard, they have suggested, to afflict the comfortable when some of those same people are paying more than $20,000 annually to subscribe to Bloomberg's financial information terminals — a computer system that provides users with data — especially when those terminals account for about 80 percent of Bloomberg's annual revenue of about $9 billion.
The whole point of Star Trek is — to quote Pike in the Discovery premiere — to "make a little noise, ruffle a few feathers," to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted, by portraying a future in which so much of the oppression and injustice regularly committed in the current era was solved long ago.
Unless his camp is hiding a history of him being on the wrong side of reckless secret knockouts—the specific nature of Yamamoto's most recent training injury as well as the ones preceding hasn't been revealed—his trouble is the orthopedic injuries that afflict plenty of AARP cardholders but have afflicted him much sooner.
A more differentiated Europe, based around the idea of variable geometry, a range of speeds or concentric circles, would be a good way to ease the tensions and problems that afflict the present, overly rigid EU. At the centre would be the 19-member euro zone, which will need deeper political and economic integration to survive.
" When these writers renounce names, they express both a distrust of language itself as a tool for understanding the world, and an awareness that namelessness "is a social as well as a metaphysical disease, one that tends to afflict women, minorities, the poor, the outcast—those treated as background extras in the primary story lines of history.
The issues that afflict the economy — rising inequality, stagnant middle-class incomes, marginalization — are not enough to explain Americans' decision to leap off a cliff and entrust their fate to a collection of billionaires and ex-generals under the diktat of a thin-skinned showman of conspicuous "cruelty and ignorance," in the words of Garrison Keillor.
Reporting from the countries they call home—either immediate or ancestral—these women share what it was like to willingly enter the most dangerous conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa in order to bring some humanity and cultural perspective to the wars that afflict the people with whom they share a country and an identity.
Eugene's novel pivots around an inquiry as to how the histories of Singleton, Meg and Rake were entangled back in Vietnam — an inquiry that italicizes the essential role that memory (or its erasure) plays in an individual's sense of self, and the sort of historical amnesia that can come to afflict a nation blundering deeper and deeper into a pointless war.
Intercut with the interviews is footage of him around the world and, in one particularly poignant early scene, in the Vatican itself, where he preaches a damning sermon about spiritual diseases that afflict the clergy: putting hope in wealth, living without regard for mortality, and having a "lugubrious face" (during which Wenders rather humorously cuts to the extremely sober-looking group of cardinals).
One knew about C.T.E., the disease of progressive neurodegeneration, brought on by repeated blows to the head, that seemed disproportionately to afflict boxers and football and hockey players, such as the linebacker Junior Seau, who shot himself in the chest, at the age of forty-three, or Todd Ewen, the N.H.L. enforcer known as the Animal, who shot himself in the head, at forty-nine.
The very premise of The 1619 Project, in fact, is that many of the inequalities that continue to afflict the nation are a direct result of the unhealed wound created by 250 years of slavery and an additional century of second-class citizenship and white-supremacist terrorism inflicted on black people (together, those two periods account for 103 percent of our history since 1619).

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