Sentence examples for off the blight from inspiring English sources

For yields to recover, he had to yank up fungus-prone bushes and plant a new variety that promised to fight off the blight.

By now, most orchardists have sold out of their special seed stock, from trees that ignore cold winters, shrug off the blight, and bear large and easily peeled nuts.

The inner city, shaking off the urban blight of the 1980s, was cool, nowhere more so than Shoreditch in east London, which became the de facto centre of the UK art world.

One of the blights on Moss's otherwise standout career has been his penchant for taking plays off and not giving his best effort.

England's tournament in New Zealand has been blighted by off-the-field controversies, but Terry has been impressed by Johnson's response.

In New Haven, Yale's decade-long investment in overcoming urban blight is paying off, the university president says.

Starting as a cluster of orange dots, the blight, Cryphonectria parasitica, forms a webbed fungal ring and chokes off the tree's vascular flow.

It tried to lift the blight of the two irredeemably corrupt, family-run parties, hoping their leaders, the "battling begums", could be packed off into exile.

The West 30th Street heliport, from which the tourists who were killed took off, is a blight upon the rapidly improving Hudson River Greenway.

Yet the blight is hard to arrest.

How has the blight spread so quickly?