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How to use the word plagued in a Sentence?

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I’ve traveled through many communities that have been plagued by violence and crime, no one in those communities want to defund the police. They want law enforcement to focus on preventing and solving violent crime.

White House

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We have been unable to adequately staff this remote restaurant with crew and continue to be plagued with excessive call-outs and lack of availability from existing staff, because of these ongoing staffing challenges, there is no probability of reopening in the foreseeable future, so we've made the decision to permanently close the restaurant.

Laurie Schalow

Found on CNN
1 year ago

NWS is plagued with IT-related outages and failures during high impact weather events, this particular kind of latency issue only happened once before, during Hurricane Ida.

Daryl Herzmann

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Many of these buildings are old. Not every apartment has a fire alarm. Most of these buildings have no sprinkler system. And so the risk of a fire is much higher in lower-income neighborhoods in The Bronx than it might be elsewhere in New York City or in the country, when we allow our affordable housing developments to be plagued by decades of disinvestment, we are putting lives at risk. These buildings are wide open to catastrophic fires that can cost people their lives, including the lives of children.

Ritchie Torres

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If we must embrace a world without love or justice to survive, and live in a world that's plagued by evil that's ruled by the mighty then I believe there is only one path. LET IT BE DESTROYED. What meaning is there living in a world like that? However, I have faith. As long as the people of Earth continue to love one another and strive for peace, no matter what challenges we may face, our world will never be destroyed! That's what we've been fighting for this whole time. And we shall continue to fight for the future. If this world is ever filled with evil, I will always risk my life to save the people of Earth.

Athena Athena

added by callum.dragon
2 years ago

I think we have to review, and we intend to review, the entire approach and policy toward North Korea, because this is a hard problem that has plagued administration after administration. And it’s a problem that has not gotten better - in fact, it’s gotten worse.

Graeme Jennings/Pool

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I am certain that the speedy response by the joint security forces has averted what could have been a more severe blood bath, it is rather unfortunate that such an incident takes place during a time when South Africa is being plagued by a deadly virus and violent crimes.

Khehla John Sitole

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

This prevents the impending car crash that was happening in slow motion, dodging that iceberg is extremely constructive. But in the near-term, we continue to be plagued by the coronavirus.

Michael Tran

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I always wanted Danny to feel like his own person, and in control of his own life, since beginning to work and travel with him in about 2003, we gratefully were able to travel the entire globe for over a decade to get out before the fans. He was always, everywhere, warmly received and he at least knew he was well loved. Health issues have plagued us for years, but Im glad for the time we had. MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS ACTOR ROBERT AXELROD DEAD AT 70 Tom Gimbel, Daniels manager of over 25 years also paid tribute to him writing:.

Dick Johnston

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The sector was plagued by production cutbacks and flagging demand, which have been the trends so far in 2019, softer growth across Asia, particularly in China, was reported to have dented export opportunities.

Joe Hayes

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This kind of helps to eliminate some of the rampant corruption that plagued the commonwealth for decades.

Shaun Burgess

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

House Judiciary Committee is bending over backwards to act in good faith, but White House has refused to produce a single piece of paper or a single witness to date, white House also withheld from House Judiciary Committee the policies that were in place during the first year and a half of the Trump Administration-which even General John Kelly admitted was plagued with problems.

Elijah Cummings

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The human condition is plagued with a labyrinth of shortcomings, frailties and limitations that hinder man from reaching his fullest potential. Therefore, it only makes sense that we find ourselves at the next phase in human evolution where restricted man merges with the infinite possibilities of hyper-evolving technologies. This techno-human transmutation will prove to be ‘the’ quantum leap in human progression. The harmonization of technologically extending oneself, consciousness, artificial intelligence and machine learning will reverse the failures of genetic predisposition and limitation.

James Scott

added by Alexander
6 years ago

I wish more of our legislators could see past the ideology, they have no concern about the impact in urban environments that are already plagued by too many guns and too much violence.

Milwaukee Police

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The violence that has plagued this country has had a devastating impact on the lives of children, the humanitarian needs are overwhelming, to meet them we need access and we need greater international support.

Mohamed Fall

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Management tussles accelerated its operational and financial deterioration, on top of being in an industry plagued by overcapacity.

Mervyn Teo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Racism has plagued the United States since its inception.

Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Not Donald Trump, not anyone else will be successful in dividing us based on race or our country of origin, racism has plagued the United States since its inception.

Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's a pathetic response to a serious problem that has plagued the ability of the U.S. to successfully recover Americans held captive in the post-9/11 era.

Duncan Hunter

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We crafted this legislation so it would not interfere with our police agencies’ abilities to get drugs and the tools of the trade off the street; so there are no changes to the seizure laws, we did want to protect to protect Montanans and those traveling through Montana from the abuse of civil asset forfeiture that has plagued other states.

Kelly McCarthy

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

For decades, buckled sidewalks have plagued neighborhoods from the San Fernando Valley to the South Bay, all of that is going to change starting today with the city's historic commitment to fix our sidewalks and make them accessible to everyone.

Paul Krekorian

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The Middle East is plagued by anti-Western, anti-democratic and anti-American extremism. Terrorists brutally behead their shackled captives before video cameras. Despots lead their people in chants of 'Death to America' while building intercontinental ballistic missiles to reach America.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on CNN
9 years ago

With the violence that's plagued northeast Nigeria spilling over into Niger, Cameroon and Chad, UNHCR is now calling for urgent humanitarian access to refugees and internally displaced people in these countries to provide urgently needed assistance, for many refugees, for locals, for aid workers too, the situation is now becoming increasingly terrifying.

Adrian Edwards

Found on CNN
9 years ago

May the bird of paradise fly up your nose; May an elephant caress you with its toes; May your wife be plagued with runners in her hose; May the bird of paradise fly up your nose.

Jimmy Dickens

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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