Example sentences for: ills

How can you use “ills” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Gripes: 1) Friedman's belief in global economics and American-style capitalism's ability to solve the world's ills reads more like cheerleading than analysis: "[O]nly a New York Times foreign affairs columnist could write a book so relentlessly upbeat about the USA's prospects in an ever more tightly integrated world without being accused of unsophisticated boosterism" (David J. Lynch, USA Today ). 2) Some of his theories have already been disproved: His "Golden Arches" theory of international relations held that no two countries that both had a McDonald's have ever gone to war.

  • During the welfare-reform debate, he blamed the welfare system for the ills of single-parent families.

  • There's a cheap, common, and mostly safe drug, in daily use for centuries by hundreds of millions of people, that only lately has been investigated for its therapeutic potential for a long list of common ills.

  • The emotions still exist, however, and the psychological price we pay for the repression is in neurosis and other civilized ills.

  • Do you think the ills she recounts might be righted if in communities there were more opportunities for men to cooperate?


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