In the end, the show managed to trivialize both scourges.
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The Vietnamese government promises action, on this and similar scourges.
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Vehicle crashes are one of today's biggest public health scourges.
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Poverty and drugs are scourges, as in countless towns across America.
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I've fought off pirate scourges and managed my own fleet of frigates.
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In developed countries, these scourges are no longer an issue for most people.
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The ground has become fertile again for different iterations of 20th-century scourges.
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Violence and drugs will become greater scourges, Republican ads and campaign messages say.
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Boyle Heights, like Bushwick, suffered the same scourges of crime, drugs, gang violence.
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Smallpox, caused by the variola virus, was long one of mankind's most terrifying scourges.
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Yellow fever was one of the great scourges of the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Perennial scourges such as double-digit inflation and ballooning current-account deficits have been absent.
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"I'd like to tell Beijing that democracy and freedom are not great scourges," Han said.
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Coronavirus has resisted the tools that countries have brought to bear against previous global scourges.
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I hated all team sports, particularly those scourges of elementary-school recess, kickball and dodgeball.
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Speaking of scourges, a phishing campaign has hit the Red Cross, UNICEF, the UN, and more.
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Daniel arap Moi, Kenya's dictator until 2002, turned his tax collectors into scourges of the opposition.
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""We could perhaps get rid of the scourges of disease and poverty, and perhaps even death itself.
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The world finally has a vaccine that, with routine administration, could end one of history's great scourges.
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Britain ceased equating Europe with scourges like intellectuals, rabies and garlic, as it had in my childhood.
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Many of past centuries' scourges have been cured as our understanding of nutrition, sanitation and genetics improves.
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Consequently we could perhaps get rid of the scourges of disease and poverty, and perhaps even death itself.
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The current scourges of honeybees include a parasitic mite called the varrao mite and the new presidential administration.
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To Ryan's mind, tribalism and identity politics are twin scourges that contributed to the environment that exists today.
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And the largest group of all: Hondurans, Salvadorans and Guatemalans escaping the twin scourges of poverty and gangs.
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And the largest group of all: Hondurans, Salvadorans and Guatemalans escaping the twin scourges of poverty and gangs.
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So, I say thank you to the NYPD for finally combating one of the greatest scourges in this city.
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This suffering is thought to be a function not of blue light or intrusive ads or bullying and other scourges.
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If it's eradicated, polio will join smallpox as the only two human scourges wiped off the face of the planet.
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The public scourges Minnie Mouse and Elmo are confined to mascot ghettos in Times Square known as designated activity zones.
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The landline was a focal point of the home, an antidote to atomization and loneliness, those scourges of our age.
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And when these scourges attract funding, it tends to come from defense budgets (remember, Ebola is considered a potential bioterrorism weapon).
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Liberal bureaucrats created national and city bureaucracies in order to wipe out the scourges of raw sewage, pollution and general anarchy.
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But these scourges, they believe, have a common source: the plundering of the country's wealth by corrupt and feckless political elites.
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But according to the new book Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer, cats are fuzzy little ecological scourges.
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Unlike other man-made scourges like, say, air and water pollution, there are no accepted standards for mopping up buried bombs.
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Every year, 5 million people die from causes associated with one of the most mundane scourges of the modern era: sitting around.
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Throughout his time as Sheriff, Arpaio continued his life's work of protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration.
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One of the biggest scourges was air pollution, which caused not only lung and respiratory infections but also heart disease and cancer.
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The findings are a stark reminder that the twin scourges of poor wage growth and income inequality, left unaddressed, will only worsen.
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Indeed, for many it is a countervailing force: if there were more of it in schools and communities, these scourges would be ameliorated.
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In 1962, the renowned epidemiologist George Comstock had a realization that would help rid modern America of one of the world's enduring scourges.
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He won primarily because he promised to reduce crime and eliminate corruption, scourges that neither of the two big mainstream parties managed to control.
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The leftist Lopez Obrador took power vowing to fight entrenched corruption, crime, inequality and poverty, scourges that cost Mexico billions of dollars every year.
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As Wired reported on Thursday, public sentiment towards these so-called scourges hasn't wavered at all in the past year, according to multiple polls.
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She was at once a burgeoning professional and a woman dealing with domestic violence and relatives' suicide, two of the scourges plaguing her community.
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But a new report, published Sunday in the Lancet, implores us to think about the possibility of big, systemic fixes for these interrelated scourges.
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As with Android apps, though, Chrome extensions can sometimes hide malware or other scourges, even when you install them from the official Chrome Web Store.
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"This truly is one of the great environmental scourges of our time," May will say, according to excerpts of a speech released by her office.
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In this way, Facebook's ubiquity, scale, and influence may allow it to single-handedly help cleanse the Internet of one of its most prevalent scourges.
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"At the recent African Union Summit, we did say how it was important to mobilise the international community to counter all these scourges," he said.
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"Throughout his time as sheriff, Arpaio continued his life's work of protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration," the statement read.
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"Throughout his time as sheriff, Arpaio continued his life's work of protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration," the statement read.
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"Throughout his time as Sheriff, Arpaio continued his life's work of protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration," the statement said.
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Coca-Cola and PepsiCo remain major purveyors of obesity, tooth decay, diabetes, heart disease and other scourges that damage people's health and raise medical costs.
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This not only gives a boost to disease transmission, including common scourges like the norovirus or the common flu, but also significantly impairs cognitive function.
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" The solution to these scourges, the candidate posits, begins with giving every adult $1,000 a month, his signature policy, which he calls the "freedom dividend.
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"Throughout his time as Sheriff, Arpaio continued his life's work of protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration," the statement read.
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It is now one of the most diverse areas of Santa Monica, but is also battling the twin scourges of high crime rates and creeping gentrification.
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He wants to reduce scourges on society such as those posed by cigarettes and junk food, recognizing that as we choose healthier habits, government expenditures decline.
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" The White House late Friday announced the pardon in a statement that praised Arpaio for "protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration.
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"Throughout his time as Sheriff, Arpaio continued his life's work of protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration," the White House said.
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I pay Apple a huge sum of money for the device, and it takes extraordinary care in protecting me from some of the worst digital scourges.
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We urgently need to implement aggressive global programs to eliminate the world's worms, which today represent some of the most devastating human pathogens and global health scourges.
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JON PARELES Somewhere in between the country bro and the country gentleman, two recent Nashville scourges, lives Cole Swindell, who has been too casual to be either.
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The infamous scourges of heart disease (dusty cobalt) and cancer (dull cornflower) were responsible for 44.3 percent of American deaths in 2017, according to one recent report.
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And while deaths due to malaria and tuberculosis have decreased substantially in recent decades, it will take investment in vaccine development and improved treatments to end these scourges.
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Fourth, the problems created by social media differ in a key way from wars, dictatorships, epidemics, and other scourges: They are not imposed on people but chosen freely.
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While the final chapter could be our most challenging, the story of malaria holds important lessons as we battle other global health scourges, particularly those carried by mosquitoes.
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Unlike policy wonks and politicians who see diseases like Alzheimer's or ALS as unstoppable scourges, Kamen points out that previously terrifying diseases were all toppled by medical innovation.
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"Throughout his time as Sheriff, Arpaio continued his life's work of protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration," according to the White House statement.
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The production especially finds resonance in one particular subplot, making it seem a commentary on the modern-day scourges of date rape and campus sexual assault (2:9673).
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The production especially finds resonance in one particular subplot, making it seem a commentary on the modern-day scourges of date rape and campus sexual assault (2:003).
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The production especially finds resonance in one particular subplot, making it seem a commentary on the modern-day scourges of date rape and campus sexual assault (242:2400).
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Pest and disease outbreaks, including scourges such as foot and mouth in cattle, need to be tackled to help boost economic growth, food security and public health, he said.
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But no technological tool kit or team of disease detectives can protect humanity from the rising tide of new microbial diseases, or newly evolved and drug-resistant older scourges.
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And if you compare terrorism to things that truly are global scourges, like civil war, HIV/AIDS, or malaria, the death toll from terrorism starts to look really tiny.
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Like many social scourges, it has frequently been the subject of voyeuristic entertainments, heavy-breathing narratives in the tradition of the great Jackies of lowdown bestsellerdom, Susann and Collins.
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"Throughout his time as Sheriff, Arpaio continued his life's work of protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration," the White House said in a statement.
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Their off-brand pills, vaccines, patches and syrups help contain health-care costs in rich countries and supply poor ones with once-unaffordable drugs to combat AIDS and other scourges.
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"Throughout his time as sheriff, Arpaio continued his life's work of protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration," read a statement released by the White House.
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"Throughout his time as Sheriff, Arpaio continued his life's work of protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration," the White House said in a statement Friday.
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" The official statement by the White House gushed: "Throughout his time as Sheriff, Arpaio continued his life's work of protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration.
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CO2500 is invisible and odourless, so it is harder to visualise the effects of all of this than for more tangible scourges like sulphur and nitrogen oxides, which cause acid rain.
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And it is why Britain is leading the way in pioneering international efforts to crack down on modern slavery - one of the great scourges of our world - wherever it is found.
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Some 550m people, most of them African, rely on cassava as a staple, but scourges such as brown streak virus, spread by whitefly, can reduce yields by a factor of 40.
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" When Trump pardoned Arpaio, who was an early and robust supporter of his candidacy, the President referred to Arpaio's work "protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration.
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Tasked with helping Puerto Rico recover from the dual scourges of fiscal insolvency and natural disaster, the board green-lighted its plan after unsuccessful negotiations with Rossello on a consensual framework.
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"People I Want to Punch in the Throat: Competitive Crafters, Drop-off Despots, and Other Suburban Scourges," is a hilarious book from Jen Mann based on her blog of the same name.
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Over the last year or so, cryptojacking—which forces your computer to mine cryptocurrency for bad guys when you visit an infected site—has become one of the internet's most pervasive scourges.
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The analysis also reads like a history of disease trends in the US. Despite access to the best health care in the world, presidents often succumbed to the scourges of their time.
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In a statement, the White House said Arpaio had "continued his life's work of protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration" throughout his time as sheriff in Arizona.
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"Throughout his time as sheriff, Arpaio continued his life's work of protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration," the White House said in a statement after Arpaio's pardon.
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Match fixing is one of the scourges of lower-level tennis because the prize money is so dismal, and gambling firms take legal bets on Futures tournaments from Sri Lanka to Switzerland.
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Caddell and Bannon made an unholy alliance, but they had things in common: both men were Irish Catholic sons of the South, scourges to their respective parties, and prone to apocalyptic pronouncements.
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"Throughout his time as Sheriff, Arpaio continued his life's work of protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration," the White House said in a statement announcing the pardon.
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His election campaign focused almost entirely on the scourges of murder, rape, drug abuse and corruption, and voters were not deterred by his repeated warnings, in profanity-peppered speeches, to have offenders killed.
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Lopez Obrador came to power on a platform vowing to fight entrenched corruption, crime, inequality and poverty, which are major scourges that he says cost the Mexican treasury billions of dollars every year.
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It seems incredulous that we need to remind ourselves how dearly a price in blood and treasure we paid to rid ourselves of the scourges of slavery and the encroaching horror Nazi atrocities.
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"Throughout his time as Sheriff, Arpaio continued his life's work of protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration," the White House said in a statement stressing Arpaio's public service.
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She also promised short-term relief, by way of purging corruption, from scourges like overdue student loan balances and other forms of predatory lending that shape the daily lives of many young people.
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The most common specific causes of natural deaths in the United States have shifted from the scourges of the early 1900s -- tuberculosis, influenza, diarrhea -- to modern killers such as heart disease and cancer.
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Duterte's election campaign focused almost entirely on the scourges of crime, drug abuse and corruption, and voters were not deterred by repeated warnings from "the Punisher", in profanity-peppered speeches, to have offenders killed.
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The logic is simple: You cannot escape the walls, so you may as well use them to remind people about some of the scourges of society, like corruption so entrenched that it seems inescapable.
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I spent five days following the campaign, and it gradually became clear why Mr. Modi is so resilient, including his can-do reputation and his success in battling the scourges of corruption and inflation.
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Culled hurl out bottom-heavy, noisy, hardcore-saturated sludge that serves as a perfect vehicle for their spitting-mad screeds against society's ills, explicitly calling out nationalism and identitarianism for the scourges they are.
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There's no doubt gerrymandering is one of the scourges of our political "system": nothing more than a way for incumbents to stack the odds in their favor, further disenfranchising and redlining disfavored populations and districts.
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If gene drives like those being worked on at Imperial and elsewhere were to condemn to a similar fate the mosquitoes that spread malaria, a second of humankind's great scourges might be consigned to history.
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The EU set aside 180 million euros ($200 million) in 2009 to upgrade the entire 77-km (50-mile) line but the project has been bogged down by Italy's twin scourges of bureaucracy and inefficiency.
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Other initiatives include addressing rural obesity, diabetes, and opioid crises by deploying the existing Extension Service network against these scourges, as well as modernizing crop insurance to reach more crops while better conserving the land.
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The age-old scourges of match-fixing and doping are becoming part of the conversation even as the talk turns to an electronic future at such major multi-sport tournaments as the 2022 Asian Games.
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Thanks largely to a scalding scene in the first half of the show, a central plotline seems as if it could be a commentary on the modern-day scourges of date rape and on-campus assaults.
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Finally, a study published earlier this year in PLOS Genetics adds to the evidence that those who would deploy gene drives against scourges such as malaria face another, more immediate, hurdle: such drives simply may not work.
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Even if there were an American president more internationally minded than Donald Trump, the world's chief plights -- terrorism, climate change, migration, nuclear proliferation -- are all cross-border scourges that demand global responses with measures that apply locally.
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Either way, the forces that successfully pressured President Trump to suspend family separation should continue to exert their influence until the administration supports a strategy that treats these children and their families as humans rather than scourges.
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Ebola is one of those scourges where the mere mention of its name strikes fear: the virus, which kills about half of those it infects and gets passed on through body fluids, is notoriously hard to contain.
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The first trailer for Men in Black International reunites Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson as Agents H & M (the discount department store jokes write themselves), two MIB agents tasked, naturally, with saving the world from alien scourges.
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Amsterdam, Netherlands (CNN)Among scourges like malaria, diabetes and cancer, AIDS is the only major epidemic that could be ended "in our lifetime," if only old-fashioned attitudes and society could be changed, Elton John said Tuesday.
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Mr. Schrader doesn't suggest that these are mutually exclusive choices, but rather shows how the strands of Toller's experience twist into a rope that binds and scourges him, until extreme actions start to feel logical and inevitable.
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" But even so, the causes are "so important there's nothing that causes you to change your total commitment," Gates said, referring to the scourges of polio, HIV and malaria, adding, "we're going to work with whoever's elected.
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ABUJA, Nigeria — Muhammadu Buhari won the presidency in a historic election in Nigeria four years ago by promising to crush two scourges that had plagued the nation for years: endemic corruption and a war with Islamist extremists.
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Tasked with helping the U.S. territory regain access to debt markets, the board has been negotiating with Rossello for months on a fiscal blueprint for Puerto Rico's recovery from the dual scourges of fiscal insolvency and natural disaster.
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Solutions to both these scourges come too late to prevent tampering that may have aided Donald Trump winning the presidency — but at least Facebook is owning up to the problem, working with the government and starting to self-regulate.
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For decades, Colombia's ruling elite has gotten away with attributing all manner of institutional shortcomings and malfeasance to the scourges of communist insurrection and narco-trafficking—which, to let the government tell it, are pretty much the same thing.
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With ISIS still capable of reconstituting itself and Iran no longer checked by U.S. forces along the Euphrates, the twin scourges of Iranian expansionism and Sunni extremism will further fuel each other in a vicious and incredibly destabilizing cycle.
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A study published in PLOS Genetics, by Philipp Messer of Cornell University and his colleagues suggests, however, that those who would deploy gene drives against scourges such as malaria face a more immediate hurdle: such drives simply may not work.
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Francis made an unexpected appearance on June 3rd at a Vatican gathering of judges and prosecutors, the latest in a series of deliberations on how to combat human trafficking, forced labour and the crime syndicates which benefit from those scourges.
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Carolyn Konheim, whose sons' soot-specked white snow suits transformed her from a high school history teacher into a crusading New York environmentalist who targeted water and air pollutants, congested streets and other scourges of modern urban life, died on Nov.
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The title belies the serious content of this book, which traces the scourges of early Irish-American life — alcoholism, gangsterism, corruption — to the trauma and oppression the Irish suffered under English rule and the subversive (and escapist) habits they cultivated in response.
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"These are societal scourges that preceded this White House, that will follow this White House, but those who are in a position to do something about it ought to, and not just once or twice a month in some scintillating story," Conway said.
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It provides the cloud infrastructure and computing brawn that puts all those devices in conversation, collecting and analyzing the massive volumes of data biomedical researchers and physicians are using to fight the scourges of our century: cancer, diabetes, Parkinson's, and heart disease.
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But since Ted Cruz doesn't have any sympathy for people who act like politicians — since he is, in fact, the bane of his party because he scourges them for acting like politicians — it's easy to see why it angers his colleagues so much.
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To effectively defend press freedom requires more from us than simply opposing government censorship and the persecution of journalists like Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo. Although serious and worsening, these scourges are also part of a larger, interrelated set of threats to press freedom.
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At a time when a drought in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam's rice bowl, and a massive fish kill along the coast have sparked protests and sharpened concerns about global warming, the agreement is also designed to combat overfishing, illegal logging and other environmental scourges.
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"The dual scourges of gun violence and violent white supremacist extremism in this country are a national security threat plain and simple, and it's time the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress start treating them as such," Schumer said in a statement to The Hill.
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The two clerics and numerous researchers, aid workers and police officers were brought together by concern over the multitude of scourges now described as modern slavery: bonded or indentured labour, human trafficking, prostitution rackets involving trafficked persons, and the criminal exploitation of vulnerable people on the move.
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All three of these colorful scourges can be vacuumed up from floors and furniture, but do take the time to switch to the hose attachment, which will do a better job at picking them up than will standard bristle attachments, where tiny, glittery bits can get stuck.
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And as much as Churchwell insists that "the scourges of racism and anti-Semitism were fundamentally inimical to the American dream," a convincing argument can be made that the dream was always a fantasy of self-congratulation, inextricable from the slave society upon which it was built.
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Survival of the Soviet Union might have perpetuated the perception of a bipolar world, but it would not have precluded the emergence of al Qaeda, the Islamic State or WMD proliferation, or for that matter intensification of genocidal regional conflicts, international organized crime and other scourges.
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Among those, he wrote, were promoting the U.S.'s role in the Pacific; managing relationships with regional powerhouses such as China; overseeing global responses to scourges including health pandemics and climate change; and defeating extremists such as al Qaeda and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
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By the early 218s, Americans were so sick of telemarketers and prerecorded messages that when US senator Fritz Hollings lamented on the Senate floor that the calls were "the scourge of modern civilization," few challenged the assertion, despite the competing scourges of war, say, or the spread of AIDS.
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People buy less of a good when its price goes up, and so higher after-tax soda prices should lead individuals to consume less sugary soft drinks, thereby avoiding the scourges of obesity, Type II diabetes and tooth decay, or at least that is what the supporters claim.
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Biblical scourges aren't usually anything to laugh at, but on this occasion, they're sure to bring smiles: Children will be invited to dress up as some of the plagues that are said to have been visited upon the ancient Egyptians when the pharaoh refused to free his Jewish slaves.
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But in recent months it seems that America's unwavering commitment to fight all of the world's scourges has brought all those governments and the wealthy individuals who support them to a critical mass, joining forces to create a parallel financial system which would be out of reach of America's long arm.
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Image: Karl-Goran Sjogren/University of GothenbergLong before the two deadliest pandemics in history—the Plague of Justinian and the Black Plague—an ancient strain of the bacterium responsible for these scourges, Yersinia pestis, may have already wreaked havoc among Neolithic European communities over 5,000 years ago, according to a controversial new study.
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The truth is that the U.S. has the innovation and the resources to put an end to rampant deaths not only from AIDS but from such scourges as malaria, tuberculosis and hepatitis C. Based on the PEPFAR experience, we have proof that health will be improved dramatically — and Americans themselves will benefit.
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Editorial As the leaders of the world posture and sermonize for the United Nations General Assembly this week, a growing global specter should spur common concern among them: World hunger, after a decade-long decline, spiked last year, because of scourges like global warming and civil conflicts that show little sign of abating.
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I think he didn't take monetary policy nearly seriously enough, that he's fallen short on combating HIV/AIDS and other public health scourges abroad, that his early push to deport millions of unauthorized immigrants was indefensible, and that perpetrators of torture and other war crimes from the Bush administration should have been criminally prosecuted.
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In natural winemaking, the debate centers on whether to use a little sulfur dioxide before bottling to help wine withstand the rigors of travel, as well as other potential scourges like brettanomyces, a rogue yeast that can cause funky barnyard aromas, and mousiness, a bacterial taint reminiscent of the smell of a mouse cage.
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In the wide-ranging interview, Admiral Donegan said that the bitter rift between Qatar and many of its Persian Gulf neighbors, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, who accuse Qatar of financing militants and having overly cozy relations with Iran, has not yet hindered coalition efforts to battle terrorism, piracy or other mutual maritime scourges.
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The question for the Pentagon, however, is whether this 123st-century equivalent of a shot across the bow will ensure that poisonous gas will no longer be among the many scourges that plague Syria, or whether it will gradually draw the United States in a multisided military tug of war over the future of the Syrian state.
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When I could not stop injecting drugs, and yet held out hope that I might one day like to live, access to clean syringes, as well as to sterile water, tourniquets, sharps containers and filters for IV solutions, enabled me to evade scourges like H.I.V., sepsis and endocarditis, which grows like a culture around the valves of the heart and can require surgery.
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In the late 21900's it seemed like the fields of medicine and global public health may have solved the problem of infectious disease spread—smallpox had been eradicated, polio was on its way to extinction and the scourges of the past, yellow fever, bubonic plague, measles, mumps and rubella could all either be cured through antibiotics or prevented through vaccines.
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But if we are to honestly address and tackle the scourges of crime, hopelessness, and despair in our inner-cities — where much of our prison population emanates from — we must acknowledge that reforms offered by the erstwhile senators are geared to level the playing field for the poor and to acknowledge that children should be treated differently than adults when interacting with the criminal justice system.
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The kind of rap lyrics that openly celebrated guns, murder, misogyny, greed and profanity are no longer in mainstream fashion as they once were, but there was a time when a certain contingent -- Tipper Gore, C. Delores Tucker, legions of editorialists -- devoted quite a bit of time to assailing these rappers as scourges of society -- poor role models for minority youth, dangerous to women, polluting society with filthy language and so on.
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