MOSCOW — Kyrgyzstan's incumbent president appeared Friday to have won a landslide victory, gaining more than 80percentt of the vote in a contest that local and Western monitors said was marred by major violations of election laws.
Releasing the State Department's annual report on "Patterns of Global Terrorism 2002," Mr. Powell said the number of terrorist attacks went down to 199 in 2002, from 355 in 2001, although the year was marred by major attacks in Bali and a theater in Moscow.
Trump used the speech to paper over what's been by all accounts a rocky start to his tenure, marred by major policy defeats, the recent resignation of his National Security Adviser, nationwide protests and continued questions over his advisers' relationships with Russia.
The officiating in both matches will again be under the spotlight after Week 1 of the finals series was marred by some major refereeing errors.
For all the heat MMA takes for appealing only to the basest human instincts, the sport has been relatively free of the recent racism that has marred most other major sports.
Hollande's tenure has been marred by the three major Islamist-inspired terror attacks – against Charlie Hebdo magazine in January 2015, then in Paris the following November and the Bastille Day attack in Nice.
Some debate surrounds Wayne Rooney, who will be well into his 31st year when the Euros come around - perhaps his last chance to substantiate an England career largely marred by disappointment at major tournaments.
The Saudi government is eager to start fresh with the U.S. after several major disagreements marred its relationship with Obama.
Several small crashes, including one in the final sprint, marred the stage, but no major injuries were reported.
Yet most of these major works are marred by evasions and omissions of truth though Lockhart and Froude, for example, were attacked as conscienceless despoilers of the dead and, before the middle of the century, biography was becoming stifled.
