Sentence examples for continued to blight from inspiring English sources

They saw the end at last of those 19th-century depths of poverty that continued to blight the lives of the metropolitan working class till 1914.

English football was sinking fast, as cash-strapped clubs struggled to attract fans to their decaying stadiums and hooliganism continued to blight the game.

As an academic he began writing about the political and ethnic tensions that continued to blight Xinjiang in the mid-1990s and in 2006 launched a bilingual website called uyghurbiz.net to debate such issues.

The defender was left unmarked in the area, a worrying trait that continued to blight the cavalier Cottagers throughout the first half.

Mr Mandela's greatest problem as president was the housing shortage for the poor, and slum townships continued to blight major cities.

Financial extravagance and mismanagement continued to blight his career, and in 1912 he had to resign from parliament after being declared bankrupt.

With no money for construction, it continues to blight the city center.

At Stonewall we know that incidents like this continue to blight the lives of too many gay people.

Social and economic inequalities continue to blight the life-chances of huge numbers of individuals, families and communities.

Punitive measures Institutional racism also continues to blight the mental health system, though it rarely makes headlines.

Even with these elisions, however, "Crossbones" provides a sophisticated introduction to present-day Somalia, and to the circle of poverty and violence that continues to blight the country.