But it also is a scourge of some of the most popular sites on the Web.
Over the past 15 years, a scourge of suicides has claimed the lives of an estimated 250, 000 farmers in India.
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Michel Houellebecq, a 40-year-old ex-Marxist, was hailed in some quarters as a scourge of the 1968ers and damned in others as an anti-liberal misanthrope.
Technology veteran Edward Kozel has a simple philosophy about a scourge of the Internet--the peer-to-peer networks that let millions of users illegally swap pirated movies, songs and software: If you can't beat 'em, make a buck off 'em.
At that point she becomes an obsessive organizer of the search, and a compulsive scourge of anyone who threatens to stand in her way. (One fatuous Pakistani functionary insists that the abduction is an Indian plot.) Given Angelina Jolie's celebrity, the obvious danger in such a take-no-prisoners style of acting was imposing herself on the real-life story, but that hasn't happened.
The disease, macular degeneration, has become a modern scourge of an aging population.
Lord Moynihan warned of a "potential scourge" of corrupt betting which could "seriously damage" the legacy of the Games and the integrity of the sport.
Leopoldville engages in an all-out fight against infantile paralysis, crowding every clinic with mothers and their children, the latter to receive orally administered shots of a new vaccine against the scourge of childhood.
By helping them to overcome their fear of falling prices, it will encourage them to deal a deathblow to the worldwide scourge of inflation.
As much as 10% of the country's coffee-growing region, or about 300, 000 acres, were replanted this year in a bid to get rid of the scourge.
For the opposition, shadow justice minister Lord Bach said knife crime had been a "scourge" on communities throughout Britain, but he accused the government of playing a "game" of "legislative public relations".
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We must fight the scourge of tax evasion by promoting a new global standard for automatic information exchange between tax authorities.
For the Conservatives, Alex Johnstone said "a case may exist" for cutting the limit to deal with the "scourge" of drink-driving, but argued the focus of the police may change as a result.
Unlike most gatherings of thousands of people, OWS has been a scourge on the businesses surrounding Zuccotti Park.
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Is this not a preferable state of affairs and expenditure to that scourge with which the nation is now afflicted?
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She encouraged the system to take advantage of the popularity of local artists with leadership in their communities to fight, from childhood, the scourge of gender-based violence, a pandemic that does not distinguish social classes or education levels.
As the stock market has risen from the depths of the financial crisis, only after destroying the retirement savings of countless Americans, so has a potential scourge: margin borrowing.
"We've not found that the concern of the international community is enough to translate into a commitment to ensure that Central America, which is a victim of drug production and consumption, can confront this scourge, " said Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega.
On Thursday, Italian researcher Marco Balduzzi plans to present a paper at the Black Hat security conference in Barcelona on the scourge of HTML Parameter Pollution, or HPP.
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If that balance continues to shift down market, Mr Birt, once vilified as a Thatcherite scourge, may yet come to be seen as the last of the old guard.
He is introducing a 5p plastic bag tax next year to try to tackle the scourge of plastic bags blowing around the countryside, yet this survey suggests plastic bags may not be the culprit some claim.
Then Shaun Pollock, scourge of England in Durban, was off the mark with a clip off the pads for four.
Not long ago, publishers decried low e-book prices as a scourge on their industry that cannibalized print sales and drove down the value of their products.
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The Phillips curve, you might remember, is that scourge of monetary policy the world over that holds that there is a trade-off between unemployment and inflation.
However, this was a situation where these companies were in possession of a relatively safe drug, with a modest chance of success in being efficacious in what may be the biggest scourge that society will face.
Some say the future is already predetermined, as a result of our short-sightedness, with water full of toxic waste and maybe even combative robots who see humans as a scourge on the tiny blue planet that we share.
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