Sentence examples for blight upon from inspiring English sources

An emphasis on a certain kind of testing has become a blight upon the city's classrooms.

The song's a dirge and a blight upon humanity, but it's also one of the most famous tunes on Earth.

The West 30th Street heliport, from which the tourists who were killed took off, is a blight upon the rapidly improving Hudson River Greenway.

My inner conservative thinks unemployment is wasteful and damaging to the spirit — 15 million unemployed, many more underemployed — a disaster, a blight upon the land.

What the M.T.A. and Mayor Bloomberg should realize is that rats are not some scourge or blight upon the subway system, but part of an urban ecosystem.

Callous, short-term profiteering, with no regard for the families and people who live nearby having to breath this air, and live next to a blight upon Britain's international legacy," Jon Linnell from Leicester wrote on the petition.

As these neighbourhoods are razed and reborn as Ciudad Paraiso, the formal economy and real-estate market in the centre of Cali will surely benefit, while the displacement of El Calvario's marginal population will most likely cast urban blight down upon less centrally located neighbourhoods.

They spoke independently, but unanimously, of a blight that has come upon the West Indies since those who served America and Britain during the war returned home.

Worse than soulless, the purple GAME logo is a blight, a throbbing bruise upon the landscape, both psycho-spatial and cultural.

THE neighborhood was looked upon as a blight.

Much of Europe also suffered from the blight, but it was not as reliant upon the potato as Ireland was, and experienced many fewer deaths.