Sentence examples for because of the blight from inspiring English sources

Hundreds starved to death because of the blight, and nearly one million immigrated to America during the famine years Others immigrated to England, Canada and Australia, never to return again.

Darcie Goodman-Collins, the executive director of the League to Save Lake Tahoe, said her group decided to support the plan, not because it is perfect, but because it will address some of the blight around the lake.

Valerie Castile said she moved to Minnesota from the St . Louisarea when her son was a toddler because this place seemed devoid of the blight and other problems that worried her in Missouri.

Thanks to Quicken Loans and Gilbert's work in the city, most of the blight has been converted to cheap office space.

Some of the blight can be attributed to a drop in population.

According to Bloomberg, News Corporation is now undervalued because of the scandals blighting its operations.

Production, the other measure most frequently cited, was down sharply in the past year because of a blight that decreased the yield by 48 percent.

The police are accused of failing to pre-empt the crime or catch the robbers because of the 'intelligence blackout' blighting their actions against organised crime.

In August, they are in the fields bemoaning the tomatoes' decline because of late blight.

Hundreds of people gathered in Barnes, south-west London, on 27 April, arguing against increased flights from Heathrow because of noise blight.

Because of the long infestation of chestnut blight in the area, it seems that all surviving C. mollissima parent trees were capable of producing blight-tolerant offspring.