| Huge cracks blemished the skis, the bindings were grotesquely twisted, and the poles bent at right angles. |
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| Avoid bunches that have thin, limp leaves that are pale-green or yellow or bunches with extremely large or blemished stalks. |
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| Workers spray rose bushes, harvest stems, strip them of thorns and pluck the blemished petals. |
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| Although occasionally subject to grain, especially in day-for-night sequences, the print is rarely blemished by dirt, scratches, or artifacts. |
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| The pale sky of early dawn was blemished by flat, wispy clouds and a pallid moon, low in the horizon that had yet to disappear. |
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| You have got to the age of 23 with no previous convictions and it is extremely sad that you have blemished your character. |
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| Zhang Xide, the county party chief, was transferred, his record blemished by violence. |
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| He also refused to be downhearted about his score, even though an early run of birdies was soon blemished. |
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| Sri Lanka had a perfect record, but it was blemished a little by reasons beyond their control. |
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| There was no darkness flawing my skin, no dull shadow or slight imperfection to suggest anything had blemished its pale surface. |
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| The country's image and reputation has been blemished by certain persons at the top who are seen as criminals, fraudsters and corruptionists. |
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| Scorch marks blemished the earth around him, evidence of Naraea's earlier attempts at magic. |
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| If you bought the car when your credit was blemished and now it's pristine, refinancing can mean a significant drop in rates. |
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| Sensibly, Collina was unmoved and the Aston Villa defender had only served to add a further scar to his already blemished reputation. |
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| Thrips may also cause blemished seeds on achenes, and uneven maturity of fruit. |
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| I am an atheist in life and I won't choose to have my memory blemished by anyone taking the freedom to meddle with my choices in life, neither with my memory afterlife. |
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| Where it lands is anyone's guess. Subprime-mortgage lenders offer higher rates of interest to borrowers who have blemished credit histories. |
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| Using fresh artichokes means that the tough or blemished leaves can be completely separated. |
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| Our record of success in mediating and implementing peace agreements is sadly blemished by some devastating failures. |
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| I argue from the published record that Professor Schlesinger's essay is a piece of a historical revisionism aimed at restoring FDR's blemished reputation as a statesman. |
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| Sorting: the aim is to eliminate fruit that has been blemished by parasites or mould or badly shelled. |
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| This government's shortcoming in enforcing and administering the law, and in protecting lives and property, has further blemished its credibility. |
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| We have already blemished the future by adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. |
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| The humanity of Christ enters unto the holy of holies as one defiled by sin, blemished, and impure through contact with death and the curse of the cross. |
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| We would never want that impression to be blemished by the activities of human traffickers. |
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| On a cluster of six or seven bananas, growers are allowed only the equivalent of one shirt button-sized blemish and no more than two blemished bunches per 15 kg box. |
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| Skin that is blemished, devitalized and dull in texture and color may be improved. |
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| Against that background it is totally unacceptable for our continent to continue to be blemished by what has already been described, and very appositely, as a dark stain that is becoming darker still with each passing day. |
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| If men have blemished and polluted the earth, tomorrow with their deeds they shall dignify this mansion, the one that will be regarded as a Promised Land, so as to enter it and carry out noble missions. |
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| Market force The plot thins Quiet time ReprintsThe manoeuvre has blemished Hong Kong's record of non-intervention in the stockmarket since 1987's global crash, when it halted trading. |
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| Some of these were blemished with financial scandal. |
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| Such political differences have undoubtedly blemished the national relief effort. But the emergency-relief operation itself may have sown some seeds of a better future for the city, if the momentum can be maintained. |
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| Canada has a blemished reputation around the world because of that. |
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| The return to a blemished past is hastened by a law that places non-commercial organisations of citizens under government control and that has the power to suspend their funding and to dissolve them. |
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| Apply over the entire surface in the case of severely blemished skin. |
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| The discrimination against, and segregation of, Blacks in numerous sectors of Canadian society and the encompassing mistreatment of the Aboriginal peoples are further examples of Canada's blemished past. |
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| Fresh fruit and vegetables may not be sold to consumers if they have gone off or are rotten, blemished, dirty, damaged by pests, underdeveloped or, in the case of fruit, unripe. |
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| To improve a blemished and discolored face, first steam it for 10 minutes. |
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| He left her lying on her stomach, wound in a sheer nightgown, the coffee au lait birthmark on her buttock a blemished island, visible when it was too hot for sheet or blanket. |
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| The most blemished life will not keep His love from pouring out. It is the blemished and the marked, the hurting and the rejected that stirs this love in Him. |
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