Sentence examples for a blight to from inspiring English sources

Allowing such a blight to migrate from one country to another, Hadley said, "would be curtains for chocolate".

"I get complaints about people in my district: the neighbor's house is dirty, it's a blight to the community, it attracts rodents.

Under such scrutiny all would see the project for what it is: a waste of taxpayer dollars and a blight to the environment.

Berry's policy for, as she puts it, "turning city Airport from a blight to a shining light" is buttressed with a report by the New Economics Foundation, which finds that the airport site could be used to create 16,000 jobs and add £400 million to the UK economy along with easing the capital's housing shortage and lessening pressure on its transport networks.

But as the playoffs came, the old question began to re-emerge outside and inside the locker room: were the Knicks better off without their franchise center, the plodding, aging 7-footer whose post-up, halfcourt style came to be viewed as a blight to the Knicks' new high-octane outfit?

The tarnish created from Haeckel's largely imaginative ideas would remain a blight to evo-devo research until the middle-to-late twentieth century and continues to influence many biologists to this day (de Beer 1940 , 1958 Garstang 1922; Gould 1977; Hall 1996).

Among her weightier concerns, she hopes to transform personal aviation from an environmental blight to an ecologically productive exploit.

But NRDC has been doing work at the Port of Los Angeles that could translate nicely to the Great Lakes and move these types of facilities from an environmental blight to an economic engine that would help to push more sustainable transportation policy and infrastructure in the region for the decades to come.

Daniel Moylan, the Mayor of London's chief aviation adviser, said: "Even to discuss this is to add a new blight to the lives of thousands of Londoners.

Mayor Anthony A. Williams, backed by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Eleanor Holmes Norton, this city's nonvoting Congressional delegate, today urged the reopening of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House, calling it a "visual blight" to "America's Main Street".

Ethan Rotman, who runs an education program for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, suggested bumper stickers, to be placed on unwashed cars, "transforming them from being a visual blight to hero status".