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Example sentences for: scourge

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Those achievements, it seems to me, will have progressively worn down humanity's evidently desperate determination to close its eyes to the prospect of defeating its foremost remaining scourge anytime soon.
He arrived at a convenient time in the tobacco fight: He had no strong feelings about the evil weed, and he became the tobacco scourge only when Republican leaders asked him to shepherd the bill through the Senate.
Athens managed to escape the scourge, but only after 700 b.c. did it take over and lift to unimagined heights the heritage of Mycenae and Crete.
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.
Rockefeller's flack did a yeoman's job of placing warm stories about this scourge of the corporate high seas.