The remainder is blighted by alternating self-flagellation, self-justification and unwarranted extrapolation. |
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La Traviata is an intimate story of family tensions and blighted love, following a Parisian courtesan who falls for a younger man. |
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This service road for the shops in Tolworth Broadway has blighted the lives of the residents of Hamilton Avenue for years. |
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After a difficult two months, blighted by injuries to her back and thigh, the tall Californian has looked tetchy and out of sorts this week. |
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For want of amusement I decided to have a look-see at what sort of searches were luring you poor blighted souls my way. |
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The attacks are the latest in a long list of violent crimes to have blighted Yorkshire in the last month. |
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There would be a brisk exit from the blighted city, with a car towing an assortment of furniture, tools, pets and sometimes children. |
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Although I can imagine it is hard to live life blighted by such small stature, it is his littleness that has actually got him where he is today. |
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There's victory in the air around San Diego's ballpark neighborhood, a 26-block section of the city's most blighted area. |
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France might, for example, have continued with the revanchist attitude to Germany which blighted the continent in the inter-war period. |
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Traditionally, municipalities have used eminent domain to make way for roads, schools, and hospitals, and to clear blighted areas. |
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In the worst of times, urban areas are blighted, deserted with depressed economies. |
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It is quite shocking that this is not going to solve the problems in areas blighted by empty houses. |
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But Dudgeon's career at Oakwell was blighted by a bout of post-viral syndrome which prevented him from making a League appearance for the Tykes. |
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In 1934 Braddock's once successful boxing career was blighted by broken hands. |
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His father's life was blighted by trauma he'd suffered during military service in the Second World War. |
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Your academic career is blighted, your good name is tarnished, you may find it hard to secure a place at any decent establishment elsewhere. |
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His chances have been blighted by a catalogue of injury woes and financial difficulties. |
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Its skyline is blighted by lots of stacks from heavy industry, including oil and nickel refineries. |
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Panorama's allegations of corruption in horse racing are just another twist in a long line of scandals which have blighted the sport. |
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We didn't have the county's redevelopment poobah, pimping some blighted acres that might be profitably used as a Wal-Mart site. |
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With their last hope of ever getting back their hard earned money blighted, they abandoned themselves to despair and thoughts of death. |
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The Glenpark side are one of several teams whose campaign has thus far been blighted by a total washout. |
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We must ensure that the debate begins, and not ends, on how we protect children born and being raised in households blighted by drugs. |
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She is 22 but her voice is more blighted bud than rose, an emotional instrument that conveys innocence broken on the wheel of restless craving. |
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What would be the value of a lone survivor, pointlessly holding out in a blighted, boarded-up street? |
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The play area and its surrounding grass were blighted by broken glass, crushed cans, bottles and litter. |
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In his later articles, Brown increasingly referred to the urban problems of slums, blighted areas and suburban sprawl. |
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Moreover, sometimes an area becomes blighted almost overnight, so that what was a desirable home becomes unsaleable and again the price plummets. |
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Naples itself is best left to the Neapolitans, to the stray dogs that haunt its blighted squares and to the pent-up wrath of Vesuvius. |
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A brain drain blighted the Labour governments of the 1970s, as high earners were driven abroad by penal income-tax rates. |
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Residents living close to the site fear their lives could be blighted by noise pollution and antisocial behaviour created by a night club. |
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My Mum loved him and his rocking chair, and he blighted several hundred of my early Saturday evenings as a child, but that cuts no ice with me! |
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The next day, they moved a couple of hundred yards downriver to a blighted spit of land below the Burlington Northern bridge. |
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The law may soon come to the aid of householders who claim their lives are blighted by neighbours' high hedges. |
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Is it any wonder that our town and city centres are blighted with multitudes of empty shops? |
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Civilisation made affluent women sick, while poverty and sin blighted the parturient poor. |
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Truancy is a passport to a life blighted by wasted opportunities, unemployment and even crime. |
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But the evidence that the family was blighted already seemed abundantly clear. |
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Soft, sloppy goals caused by panicky clearances and unfocused defending have blighted their play. |
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And a resident who fears his life will be blighted by the development says he has been let down by a faint-hearted planning committee. |
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It follows that if parents mess up in any way, there can be no second chance, and their offspring will be on the fast track to a blighted life. |
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I can barely think of any main road in our city which is not blighted by accidents and fatalities. |
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He attempted that in 2002 but his preparations had been blighted by injury and he was pulled up after just two flights. |
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As foul weather blighted Manchester's New Year celebrations, people who had not bought tickets turned up at the hotel's doors. |
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The 2300 block of Park Avenue, three blocks north of Temple University, is so blighted it ought to be dynamited. |
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This isn't for roads or public schools or to clear out blighted areas, but to turn over for private developers to turn people's homes into developments? |
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They argued that cities have no right to take their land except for projects with a clear public use, such as roads or schools, or to revitalize blighted areas. |
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Three derelict houses bordering Waterford's historic city walls have blighted the area for too long, according to a frustrated resident and city alderman. |
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Only when their crop of vines is blighted can they make Sauternes, one of the most glorious sweet wines in the world, which thrives on rot and fungal decay. |
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Earlier in the year, there were signs that maybe there was a recovery, but further losses of confidence around US accounting scandals have blighted the green shoots. |
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The mind-numbing natural disaster which has killed thousands and blighted the lives of millions in South Asia will not fade from our consciousness for some time yet. |
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Has cloning destroyed cities or blighted the lives of millions? |
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By the late '70s, the entire downtown was in a state of decline, and one especially blighted area was known for its abandoned buildings, rough bars, and prostitution. |
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Still scrounging for food and blighted by diseases like kala-azar and tuberculosis, many live as bonded labourers, and face acute food shortage and starvation every year. |
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Residents of a street blighted by a stream of juggernauts have given a slightly disbelieving welcome to Swindon Council's decision to close the road to through traffic. |
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The 84-acre Brookfields Park site will be a mix of office and industrial space to create new business opportunities in an area once blighted by deprivation. |
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His wanderings through the blighted landscape are accompanied by thoughts of resurrection and renewal. |
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Now, whereas my face was blighted by angry red spots and a nose that wouldn't have looked out of place on an aardvark, this boy had unreally smooth skin and a tiny nose. |
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The ruling will bring back attention to a scandal that blighted the final years of the reign of 76 year-old King Juan Carlos. |
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Although Friday was cloudy and blighted with intermittent rain, the weather proved kind on Saturday with sunshine and warmth drawing crowds to the event. |
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Outside the core, it continues to be blighted by an air of neglect. |
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Asylum seekers are being praised for helping to breathe new life into a rundown part of a South Yorkshire town that was once blighted by drugs and vice. |
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The result is that the district combines the blighted row houses of The Wire and horse country. |
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Could they have done more for their blighted communities than simply build personal fiefdoms and live large? |
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While the race meeting was blighted by poor weather at the start of the week, today's predicted heatwave has prompted concerns over traffic queues around York. |
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It is a street in an expanding urban area which had been blighted by heavy wagons transporting materials and finished products for a large and noisy industrial operation. |
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The problem of streets blighted with chewing gum will never go away. |
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But now the hoodoo that has blighted City all season has hit again. |
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In Trainspotting, Begbie's blood boils at the backpackers who see the sights of the city centre but are blind to the blighted landscape of its surrounding schemes. |
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Over the years some branches of the family have been blighted by a congenital heart defect but Mrs Pike's illness was coincidental, say friends, because she was adopted. |
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Africa's largest country can seem almost biblically blighted. |
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He grew up under the old Communist system, in a blighted Czechoslovakia whose ambitions for independence had been crushed beneath Soviet tank tracks. |
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In this Pythonesque vision, Lady Macbeth is a vampish sexpot, while her husband is a dim-witted cuckold, less blighted by fatal flaws than fatal dorkiness. |
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A Stephen King of the Flushing housing projects and the blighted East Bay, Victor LaValle is a master of comic-gothic noir. |
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The payday lenders are analogous to drug dealers, addicting their clients, then bleeding them dry, and ultimately leaving behind blighted communities. |
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Rice prices are soaring because drought has blighted the Basmati crop. |
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The nine-year-old was blighted by jumping problems in his formative years over fences, but it looks as though they have been ironed out of late. |
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The nine-year-old was blighted by jumping problems in his formative years over fences, but they seem to have been ironed out of late. |
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Beware of face infectors MANY of us are permanently attached to mobile phones but chatterboxes can be blighted by regular spot outbreaks. |
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But look now into the weltered hearts and blighted memories of those whom we have gathered from out of the thousands of the lost and wretched. |
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Revitalization Project is reinvigoration of the town s downtown business district through the elimination of blighted conditions. |
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In a season blighted by barminess we had a match taking place four days before Christmas in temperatures of minus 10 degrees. |
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The harbour and surrounding area became an area heavily blighted by industrial waste even long after some of the industries were gone. |
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The first abortion was four months from pregnancy resulting in a fetus with anencephaly, kyphosis and cephalocele and the second was a blighted ovum at 3rd month of pregnancy. |
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During this time the medical school was blighted by inefficiency and the divided loyalties of the staff leading to a steady decline in attendance. |
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