But some management experts seem to think late notes can make inroads into the great scourge of tardiness.

So the great scourge of public hypocrisy turns out to be something of a hypocrite in private.

The other great scourge of Africa is war.

"You freed Hemystir from a great scourge," he replied dutifully.

They had assembled to fight one of modernity's great scourges: child deaths in motor-vehicle crashes.

Indeed, algae is the great scourge of the natural pool world, for aesthetic reasons more than anything else.

Still, great American scourges often vanish unnoticed from the face of the earth.

By the time the cats died, the London tabloids were proclaiming "mad cow disease" the next great scourge.

A great scourge was approaching - and then his words had assumed a terrifying reality: the Italian War of 1494-1498.

THE great scourge of keeping fit is being bored.