The film depicts the efforts of a group of scientists to relocate humanity from an Earth vitiated by war and famine to another planet by way of a wormhole.
Russell Sturgis complained, in a 1904 article in The Architectural Record, that the "real thrill of pleasure" he got from the bronze was vitiated by an exterior set of wooden weather doors when they were not retracted into their pockets in the side walls.
The emotional impact of the events that gradually leave one of the characters feeling alienated from the others is somewhat vitiated by the play's inordinate length.
As Lord Donaldson observed: "In some cases, doctors will not only have to consider the capacity of the patient to refuse treatment but also whether the refusal has been vitiated because it resulted not from the patient's will, but from the will of others".
The C.P.A. had also begun purging Baath Party officials from Iraq's key ministries, which vitiated the police force and impeded the delivery of services.
It notes the Latin root vitium means "fault, vice," and defines it first as "to make faulty or defective" with a quotation from William Styron: "The comic impact is vitiated by obvious haste".
India blames Pakistan: in 1949, after a ceasefire was agreed to under United Nations supervision, Pakistan failed to withdraw from Azad Kashmir, a betrayal that, India says, vitiated the commitment to the plebiscite.
Any benefits from extra water supplies will be short-term, and vitiated by floods.No wonder water is expensive, especially for the poor.
One moment that does rely on the so-called magic of the movies — in which dancers vanish from a dance floor and then reappear there — is vitiated by its metaphorical obviousness.
This body of research extends and refines along two directions a basic strategic setting, in which contractual relationships are vitiated by potential conflict of interests arising from asymmetric information.
