Ortega dismissed as politically motivated accusations of autocracy and fraud that have weighed on his presidency. Old Mr. Weller drove a horse-drawn carriage for twelve months, but had to retire because of gout. In April 1955, scientists confirmed that a vaccine developed by researcher Jonas Salk had proven effective against polio, a debilitating and often fatal disease that affected tens of thousands of Americans each year. Japan has not suffered from the rapid rise in infections and deaths that have hit the United States, but critics have accused Abe of not acting faster and more decisively to fully contain the virus. They suffer from “progressive spiritual voids,” he said, that cannot fulfill honors and academic degrees. Just a poor guy suffering, unemployed and anxious to make a living for his family. Silva concludes that America suffers from the socio-visual state of “colorblind racism.” The Latin root of this adjective, afflictare, means “to damage, harass or torment,” which can sometimes be a good description of how an affected person feels. People with mental illness may be tormented by voices in their minds and therefore unable to distinguish what is real from what is not. People affected by ALS, or Lou Gehrig`s disease, slowly lose control of their muscles and become paralyzed. Pat Roberts is in trouble for the same reasons as many other senators. Because of the affliction of the daughter of my people, I am grieved and saddened, I have been overwhelmed with astonishment. Babylon, which afflicted the Israelites, will be completely destroyed after their restoration.
They want to take authority and comfort the afflicted and harass the comfortable and all hoo-ha. He wanted to give a voice to the voiceless, comfort the afflicted, and oppress the comfortable. These sample phrases are automatically selected from various online information sources to reflect the current use of the word “affected”. The views expressed in the examples do not represent the views of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us your feedback. Father Biard went to the boy`s parents and asked if he could baptize the dying child with his consent. The first person to counsel, the last to suffer – a mother – should not be a victim of her daughter`s feelings. Suffering, trying, tormenting, tormenting and shaking means inflicting something on a person that is difficult to bear.
Suffering is a general term that refers to causing pain or suffering or acute harassment, embarrassment or distress. The ills that afflict older adults suggest imposing something that tests perseverance or self-control. Children often test their parents` agony of patience, suggesting persecution or the repeated infliction of suffering or anger. A horse tormented by the torture of flies adds the implication of causing unbearable pain or suffering. Tormented by an exhausting or heartbreaking sense of guilt. A body in pain You see, how a virus infects you depends on an “incubation period” – the number of days between the capture of a pathogen and the actual onset of symptoms. Tina Brown: So performance anxiety has to affect both writers and actors. The exact occupational cause of the disease is, of course, more difficult to prove. From this particular spiritual constitution are born the sufferings that now torment you. Middle English afflihten “excites, despair”, probably verbal derivation from affliht, aflyght “disturbed, angry”, borrowed from Latin afflÄ«ctus, past participle of afflÄ”gere `to overthrow or overthrow, to ruin, to suffer severely`, from ad ad + flä«gere `to overthrow` – more with unnecessary entry 1 The great policy of theologians is to blow hot and cold, to torment and comfort, to scare and calm down. If that had been done, I wouldn`t be here tonight – we wouldn`t have had any of the problems plaguing the country now. It was simply written: a man with suffering on half of his face, wearing a tin mask to cover it.
I thought that if he was suffering from more than half of his face, maybe he was missing part of his mouth. The patient stubbornly refuses to accept their theory of suffering or to adopt the remedies proposed by his friends. Affected means “weakened” or “affected” and usually refers to a person who is mentally or physically incapable or severely affected by the disease. Find the answers online with Practical English Usage, your go-to guide to problems in English. Typically, Borges accepted his suffering “as a gift,” which promoted memory. It is a suffering he shares with two close friends, the humorist Art Buchwald and the writer William Styron.
