Sentence examples for been vitiated from inspiring English sources

On "Dark Angel," America's technology has been vitiated by terrorists who tossed up an electromagnetic pulse.

The general union of the pacification was tenuously maintained until 1584, but by then its spirit had long since been vitiated.

But so far his presidency has been vitiated by a combination of incompetence and a willingness to fall back on the very tactics that he denounced as a candidate.

Upon contemplating the processes of vegetation and the "agitation" of seas and lakes, Priestley envisioned the means by which a benevolent nature restored the "common air" that had been "vitiated and diminished" by such "noxious" processes as combustion and respiration.

As Lord Donaldson observed: "In some cases, doctors will not only have to consider the capacity of the patient to refuse treatment but also whether the refusal has been vitiated because it resulted not from the patient's will, but from the will of others".

Iraq's military capacity has been vitiated by its defeat in the Gulf War and years of inspections, but North Korea is one of the most militarized nations in the world, with more than forty per cent of its population under arms.

Idealism seems to be vitiated the moment it is translated into (usually misguided) action.

Autonomy is vitiated by the wholesale invasion of secrecy and privacy.

But its power is vitiated by a manner of presentation more political than theatrical.

See how education was vitiated, how the public sector grew depraved!

They suggested some of the usual rules of evidence might be relaxed, but not be vitiated.