Sentence examples for was blighted by from inspiring English sources

But their marriage was blighted by tragedy.

Chechnya was blighted by it.

That meeting was blighted by the Beslan tragedy.

The optimism of the risanamento was blighted by the onset of World War I.

Then, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Smith's life was blighted by tragedy.

The prison was blighted by institutional racism, and by a failure to tackle overt racism.

Cregan never stopped writing, even in later years when he was blighted by Parkinson's disease.

Her gilded childhood was blighted by her father's job as a pilot for Saddam Hussein.

His career was blighted by alcoholism and by bad luck, which he often seemed to bring upon himself.

* Harry Kewell, £5m from Leeds in 2003 Arrived with a great reputation but his Anfield career was blighted by injury.

The Bakiyev era was blighted by repression, human rights abuses and corruption, with the exiled president accused of embezzling $200m.