Board meetings have been marred for years by racial tensions among officials and parents.
But that game, a 20-17 ovictory victory, was marred for the linemen by the punishment quarterback Eli Manning took throughout the game.
The day was marred for Paul Ince when the Blackpool manager threw a bottle that bounced through a barrier and struck a female fan on a foot.
AGES 9-12 -- A film about growth, change and belief may be marred for some viewers by hokey contrivances and relentless sentimentalizing.
The business climate, he said, would be marred for months by the bankruptcies, impossible interest rates and the flight of foreign capital.
In the ensuing electoral chaos, Bush appeared truly upset at first (his usually flawless physical appearance was marred, for the only time I can remember, by a boil that sprouted on his face), and then went through a phase of manic joking with visitors to the Governor's Mansion and musing about assembling a genuine coalition government, with several Democrats in the Cabinet.
The 225-vote majority, greeted with rare applause in the public gallery, was marred for the prime minister, who suffered a humiliating rebuff when more than half of the parliamentary Tory party declined to support the government on an issue he has personally invested in.
A meal at the highly touted 3660 on the Rise was marred for us and our guests by overwrought dishes (foie gras and lobster wontons with beurre blanc, yet) and a waiter so eager to explain everything that I fully expected him to tell me the difference between red and white wines.
Interwar Paris was marred for Henry Miller by the fact that, as he put it, "The populace had grown so hardened to artists that gruff-voiced Lesbians in corduroy breeches and young men in Grecian or medieval costume could walk the streets without attracting a glance" – or anybody's glance but his.
A1 Police to Video Interrogations The Detroit Police Department, whose image has been marred for years by complaints of civil rights abuses, has agreed to videotape interrogations of all suspects in crimes that carry a penalty of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
