Sentence examples for financial blight from inspiring English sources

That meant Mr. Blagojevich was overmatched by the speaker, who, for all his failings and his responsibility for the state's financial blight, takes his job seriously, works hard and is a master of the legislative process.

Mr. DiNapoli tries to make that résumé sound tainted, but the investment and management skills exhibited with General Motors are just what are needed for New York's financial and ethical blight.

His days were marred with the deaths of his wife and children, disrupted by financial misfortune, and blighted by scandal.

And the state-appointed emergency financial manager has made blight removal and service provision a priority.

In 1979, gambling's promise of financial reprieve from urban blight seemed so possible.

Investors like to believe not only that they're smart, but that financial scandals are isolated blights confined to a single firm or sector.

The current climate crisis is entwined with a lengthy history of industrialisation, reckless ecological practices, and the environmental movement has been blighted by financial crisis, austerity, and a political and corporate denial of this global catastrophe.

Tolstykh's three years in charge of Russian football were marked by a crackdown on fan racism, which saw some of the country's biggest clubs punished, but his time in office was also blighted by financial problems.

Occupy journalist Erin Sickler wrote that the arts economy is, "reproducing inequitable and oppressive economic relations," adding that, "the moguls who sit on museum boards are often the same people who contrived the runaway financial speculation which has blighted economic life for the rest of us, in the U.S. and beyond".

Foreclosures blight neighborhoods, put financial pressure on families and drive down local real estate values.

To compound the problems presented by a shrinking tax base, Detroit has been blighted by years of financial mismanagement.