Sentence examples for by the same blight from inspiring English sources

When he was about ten, his hapless father, Lewis, invested what little money he had in a process for turning potatoes into starch, just months before the American potato crop was devastated by the same blight that drove hundreds of thousands of Ireland's poor farmers to immigrate to the United States.

Besides, Mr. Gettle added, "the same blights hit the hybrids out here in Missouri as hit the heirlooms".

Is every actor blighted by the same anxiety of age?

It seems a cruel contrivance to have both sisters blighted by the same man, for instance.

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South Wales Police are seeking urgent talks with the game's authorities to prevent May's FA Cup final and the Nationwide play-offs being blighted by the same traffic gridlock in central Cardiff that caused thousands of supporters, mainly Birmingham fans, to miss the start of Sunday's Worthington Cup final even though the kick-off was put back by 10 minutes.

By the same back.

From my experience as a military marriage consultant, I'd estimate that a third of military marriages are probably blighted by infidelity — about the same as civilian marriages.

Ms. Arnold imagines the past not as a simpler, more innocent time but as an era blighted by older versions of the same cruelties — rooted in differences of sex, race and social position — that afflict our own.

At Park Point, the highest spot in the park (8,572 feet), the 100-mile views to the north and south seemed the same, but the foreground was blighted by charred remains.

The crime map displays the same bureaucratic syndrome as has blighted Britain's schools and hospitals since the 1990s.