Sentence examples for chequered with from inspiring English sources

The former Labour prime minister accepted his work since stepping down had been chequered with criticism.

And Whedon's career had been chequered with big hits (Buffy) and prematurely cancelled misses (Firefly).

"Look what a few weeks in No 10 has done to him," read yesterday's headline, before we were told: "Mr Cameron's dark locks appear to be more liberally chequered with streaks of silver than when he entered office.

Hartley's career has been chequered with disciplinary issues and he missed the World Cup last autumn having been dropped from the squad by the former coach, Stuart Lancaster, for headbutting Saracens' Jamie George during a club game.

Reddish leather over cardboard; the covers blind-tooled with a double decorative frame, the inner one chequered, with circular dots on the intersections; small quadrangular decorative bosses in gilt brass in the four corners and in the center of each cover.

At the age of 24 the young Portuguese monarch himself now dies of a terrible disease, after a life chequered with troubles, while one of his just dead brothers still lies uncoffined, and a third of the brothers is prostrate with the same disease.

Shearer said the show would not have been made in the US, adding that he had a "very chequered experience" with cable channel HBO.

Guéï staunchly supported Houphouët-Boigny, but had a chequered relationship with his successor, dating back to a refusal to support Bédié in a power struggle for the presidency with former prime minister Alassane Dramane Ouattara, a Muslim northerner.

Labor has backed Rudd for the position even though many shadow ministers have chequered relationships with the former prime minister, and some have openly criticised his personality and professionalism.

The reason this is worth noting is because British television in a purely fictional sense—has a brief, but chequered history with portraying pills.

She fell in love with these prints and books with chequered pasts, mass-produced during the Edo Period of the 16th-18th centuries, before falling out of favor in an increasingly Westernized Japan.