Sentence examples for it was blighted from inspiring English sources

About 15 years ago, it was blighted, its Art Deco hotels faded and neglected.

He writes: "It was blighted from the start.

"It was blighted; there was a high crime rate," she said.

There are those who say it was blighted by technical problems from the day it opened 45 years ago.

Gordon Brown did not make his first official visit there until a full decade after New Labour swept into power – and then it was blighted by a row over the alleged bullying of Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty on Big Brother.

So how does a failing institution turn itself around when it is blighted by its own reputation?

It is blighted by screaming politicians, private financiers, IT racketeers, management consultants, league tables and targets.

She said: "It's blighted my life and the lives of my family".

Another driver of an affected Seat vehicle, who has been trying to sell his car and did not want to be named, said: "It's blighted.

Rather, it is blighted by multiple forms of bad governance: abusive police and security forces, domineering local oligarchies, inept and indifferent state bureaucracies, corrupt and pliant judiciaries, and ruling elites who routinely shred the rule of law in the quest to get rich in office.

Chechnya was blighted by it.