Sentence examples for global blight from inspiring English sources

Ruskin, alongside many of the Romantics, clearly foresaw the global blight of unrestrained of industrial "progress".

The deliberate targeting of places of education has become a global blight.

Simon Calder Madrid The Spanish capital has largely escaped the march of global brands that blight many of its European counterparts.

At worst, it is to collude in the silences about gender exploitation and sexual violence as very modern problems inseparable from every other form of global exploitation that blights our supposedly emancipated times".

But, despite international commitments, progress has been slow and "remains a blight on global development".

By Jonathan Franzen To slow global warming, we could blight every landscape with biofuel crops and wind turbines.

To slow global warming, we could blight every landscape with biofuel crops and wind turbines.

Banana experts have been working for years to find solutions to what is becoming a global epidemic of tree-killing blight.

The global crisis that has been blighting the world's economy for some time has taken a serious toll on processes of urban transformation.

The base is a complete anachronism on the one hand, and a constant blight on America's global reputation.

Then there is the arms trade, one of the vilest blights on our chances of global progress, on which the present government appears to be over-relaxed.