Sentence examples for had already marred from inspiring English sources

The Euro 2016 organiser, Jacques Lambert, told France Inter radio he felt the strikes had already marred the tournament.

In spite of their differences, they shared a common desire: to speak and be heard.Political wrangling, however, had already marred the meeting before it even started.

Finally, the ready recourse in Nigerian politics to enforcers and thugs of various kinds has already marred the campaigning and may well get worse.

Delays and allegations of corruption have already marred India's preparations, and the dengue outbreak is just the latest concern for Indian officials, partly because the athletes' quarters will be near a breeding ground for the mosquitoes that spread the disease.

Not just because of his racism, sexism, and xenophobia, but for the long list of blatant conflicts of interests that have already marred the transition.

Ms. Palin's gender and her ability to mouth one-liners do not excuse the personal and political scandals that have already marred her selection or her complete ignorance of most international and domestic issues.

Napolitano's trip had already been marred by the diplomatic spat after the SPD's candidate for the chancellorship, Peer Steinbrück, over his comment that two clowns had won the election.

It was an ignominious end to a process that had already been marred by broken agreements and name-calling between the state government and New Jersey's most powerful teachers' union, the New Jersey Education Association, which Mr. Christie regularly criticizes as an intractable barrier to progress on school reform.

That is why a single act of political barbarism, in the southern town of Sriperumbudur on the night of May 21st, may yet smash the world's biggest democracy into sectarian fragments.Mr Gandhi's murder came in the middle of a general-election campaign that had already been marred by more killing, intimidation and vote-grabbing than India had seen in any of its nine previous elections.

Thursday's tie at Stadio Olimpico had already been marred after a Tottenham fan was seriously injured and several hurt the night before, after reports that 40 men wearing helmets and with covered faces attacked an English group.

The run-up to elections has already been marred by violence within the country.