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Example sentences for: scourge

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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.
In wealth, as elsewhere, religion was his staff and his scourge.
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.
In his second week as press scourge, Steve Brill remains a hot topic.
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.