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They faced repeated assault and siege from neighboring Malay forces, and malaria was a constant scourge.
This points to a primary need of nations worldwide in combating the scourge of recurrent wildfires: tools and technology suited to the job.
In wealth, as elsewhere, religion was his staff and his scourge.
So soon after the Brooklyn Museum, we are right back in Moralityland with something called the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, and its leader Bill Donohue, wanting to scourge the movie Dogma from silver screens everywhere because, among other things, they don't like Alanis Morissette being cast as God.
The Indian Journal of Medical Research , on the other hand, despite all the press reports about India's burgeoning middle class, is currently filled with reports on infectious diseases--the scourge of poor nations.