Sentence examples for blights from inspiring English sources

By attacking poverty and pay, we'll address the inequality that blights lives - and stimulate the economy at the same time.

It is especially so in Europe's biggest economy, Germany, whose sluggish performance blights that of others.

Although this year's soyabean crop is already in, the disease could ruin next year's harvest, especially in states like Arkansas, which ranks first in the South and ninth in the country in producing soyabeans.The disease blights more than soyabeans.

They see reflected there, as in a glass, the present blights of social isolation, forgetfulness of history, cultural confusion; but they also see the forces of change somehow made to pause.

The Kremlin's embrace of Ramzan Kadyrov, warlord-cum-deputy prime minister of Chechnya, is only the worst example of this.A third reason is the corruption that blights the Caucasus even more than the rest of Russia (see article), and which Mr Putin has done little to confront.

The fear of violent crime blights most South African lives.

Chester-le-Street showed that there's a psychological fragility about the side to complement the more obvious technical flaws that blighted the first two defeats in this series.

Not only were his side losing to a team with a reputation for flowing rugby who had instead turned up in a tactical straitjacket and kicked away most of the possession they won, rarely to any sort of effect, but Farrell had missed three successive penalties, all well within his range, and the malfunctioning of his radar blighted his general play.

Communities need to be persuaded that the years before the line opens are not just a period of cost, disruption and blight but also one of work and opportunity.

Lives continue to be blighted by being denied their full expression.

As heavily armed soldiers continued rolling into the city in armoured vehicles on Tuesday, embattled authorities in Baltimore were struggling to control a growing crisis in their city, long notorious for urban blight and accusations of police brutality.