Sentence examples for lands blight from inspiring English sources

This variety of chickpea was chosen because of its suitability for irrigated lands, blight and wilt disease suffering areas.

Then authoritarian Belarus got in on the act, reportedly imprisoning a researcher who studies lands blighted by Chernobyl.

A land blighted by low educational attainment.

In the late 1940s, in an almost uncanny anticipation of what was to come, George Orwell penned his account of a land blighted by pervasive government surveillance, with the classic novel 1984.

Novik's Uprooted, which won best fantasy novel, is set in a land blighted by a dark, enchanted forest, and is also in the running for the Hugo award and the British Fantasy Society award.

Exploiting a state redevelopment act that allows municipalities to extract extra tax money by developing depressed areas, Industry declared 80% of the city land blighted by 1974, allowing the city to sell that land to any developer of its choosing without putting out a request for public bids.

Before their land was blighted by insurgency, farmers would rotate crops, starting with cotton, which has deep roots that drew nutrients to the surface, and finishing the cycle with groundnuts, which put nitrogen back into the soil.

"By the late 1960s, the American landscape was ravaged by decades of unchecked land development, blighted by urban decay in the big cities, and plagued by seemingly unstoppable air, noise, and water pollution," C. Jerry Simmons, an archivist and historian at the National Archives in Washington, wrote in 2009.

Along with its sci-fi name, Ultra-Ex advances a forward-looking mission: to document the ecological benefits that vacant lots might provide and to redefine the land, from neighborhood blight to community asset.

Under the leadership of Tom Murphy, a three-term mayor, more than 1,000 acres of abandoned, blighted industrial land in Pittsburgh was cleaned up and is now thriving commercial, retail, residential and public space.

She said she could not understand how the doctrine of eminent domain, which allows the state to seize blighted or underutilized land for the public good, could be applied to an area where long-vacant factories have been rapidly transformed into chic condos, or to a development that would be largely run as a private profit-making enterprise.