Sentence examples for and was scarred by from inspiring English sources

The East End of the 1960s crawled with drunks, thieves and prostitutes, and was scarred by racism.

Peculiar features are Iron and Chestnut hills, which protrude into the plain southwest of Newark and are scarred by open pits where iron ore once was mined.

That a team composed of the men who had survived and been scarred by the Munich disaster, supported by youth-team footballers and players drafted in from Bishop Auckland, should have completed the 1957-58 season was one thing.

The heart that had first motivated the young Robinson to athletic greatness at Pasadena Junior College and UCLA was scarred by an attack in 1968.

She was born in Suffolk, the second of five children, to a wealthy businessman who lost most of his money in the war, and her childhood was scarred by the death of two siblings.

When the resulting standoff ended, nearly 60 people had been killed, and the council building was scarred by shrapnel and bullets.

Post-Saddam Iraq was scarred by poverty and pervasive violence, and the collapse of the Baathist state led to a collapse of basic security, one that caused Iraqis to turn to ethnic and sectarian loyalties.

Women in this family turned to prostitution; this family was scarred by incest and mental disability.

Robert, whose own youth was scarred by poverty and war, has an engineering degree but lacks the connections that would help land him a job working for the government or a private company.

Then they talk about O'Neill's father, a famous actor whose career was scarred by alcoholism and a soul-destroying allegiance to the part of the Count of Monte Cristo, which he played for some thirty years.

Yet the Yeltsin era was scarred by corruption and asset looting; Gazprom was not immune.