| They claimed that customers of the busy Main Street hostelry were blighting their neighbourhood with noise, nuisance, litter and vandalism. |
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| These products are used to prevent disease or pests from blighting the plant. |
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| Such measures are blighting the lives of hundreds of former political prisoners and their families. |
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| Results suggest that this hopelessness is based on the experience of failed attempts and deceived hopes, and is in itself blighting. |
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| For many in the green lobby, atomic power is the ultimate bogeyman, blighting landscapes and producing waste which is difficult to dispose of safely. |
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| Those that remain menace civilians for decades, maiming, killing and blighting livelihoods. |
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| Residents are being urged to use the hotline to shop nuisance neighbours and advise police and councils of vandalism and abandoned cars blighting the area. |
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| The people who are dumping waste on the roadsides are blighting the countryside and destroying the good image that the vast majority of people try to promote. |
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| My message to them is that Myanmar is blighting ASEAN's image in the world, so ASEAN too must bring pressure to bear. |
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| They can take part from anywhere. It is hard to be optimistic about a problem that is blighting the lives of so many people. |
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| In susceptible blueberry cultivars, blighting of 1-year-old woody stems with flower buds is the predominant symptom in North Carolina. |
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| Unfortunately, if we open our eyes it becomes plain that the same lack of ethics and the same decadence are blighting many other sectors. |
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| His Government was committed to closer cooperation in the struggle against that form of evil, which was blighting the whole world. |
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| While it may be hard to undo the damage already done to children with disabilities, nations could and should move faster to stop discrimination and stigma blighting the lives of these children and their families. |
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| Obviously some companies have the online reputation they deserve, but an unjustified, malicious or obsolete complaint may linger for years, blighting every new query. |
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| One of the army's alleged coup plots involved the planting of weapons in the homes of Gulenists in an attempt to discredit them. It is not just coup-mongering that is blighting the army's image. |
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| A number of participants, from both sides, expressed the belief that theirs was, in effect, a 'twenty-second century conflict': a war that would last a hundred years, blighting the lives of their grandchildren's children. |
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| If they do not reform, God will punish them severely, not only blighting the fruits of the field but allowing the entire people, young and old alike, to die». |
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| Blake was concerned about senseless wars and the blighting effects of the Industrial Revolution. |
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| Although the recession is being blamed for blighting the uptake of femtocells, several indicators are emerging that suggest the technology has far from missed the boat. |
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| For example the lack of a sense of deep meaning or purpose is blighting the lives of many people as they turn to outer things to assuage a hunger which by definition is an inner one that cannot be satisfied in external ways. |
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| The Asphalt Industry Alliance blames chronic underfunding and three successive harsh winters for the potholes blighting our roads. |
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| Inwork poverty is a scandal which should not be blighting one of the world's richest nations. |
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| Badgeless cars are blighting the second-hand market, according to experts. |
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| She believes in the diversity of towns, capitalising on their uniqueness rather than the 'clone town' trend towards bland uniformity blighting our townscapes. |
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