Not a tree marred the landscape of endless yellow and there was no path cut through the jungle of grass. |
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Too much heat means the skins at the bottom of the still will start to burn and your entire batch will be marred by the burned flavors. |
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The match itself could have been one of the greats but for the sour incidents that marred it. |
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It is unfortunate that these beautiful elements are marred with such mundane gameplay. |
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Even the good news was marred by signs that the anti-agreement camp within his own party is growing. |
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The solemnity and dignity of the occasion were marred by this imperial affront to the former colonies. |
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Fresh calls are being made for council bosses to move Leeds Music Festival from Temple Newsam Park after violence marred this year's event. |
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What could have been a mutually beneficial working relationship was marred by the clash of their personalities. |
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Deep creased wrinkles marred his perfect, ageless, shiny red face at his nose and mouth as he spoke in a low, whispering tone. |
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In reality, only bags under his eyes and unshaven appearance marred his skin. |
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The Norwegians said the poll did not meet international standards and had been marred by violence, most of it from government supporters. |
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He wore a dark green uniform that was pressed so not a single wrinkle marred the suit's perfection. |
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Huge black scorch marks marred the surface that would have normally been a shiny metal. |
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A majority of her frame was obscured by a bulky armor harness painted blood red, and marred with a thousand tiny scuffs and scratches. |
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My first attempt at trying to see a thrush nightingale by the Narew River was marred by my inability to use my binoculars properly. |
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There is a tidal wave of disillusion in Scotland at the succession of disasters that have marred devolution's infancy. |
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The picture is also dark, hazy, dirty, murky, and marred by shimmering and flicker. |
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The war years were marred only by Warnie's absence on active service until he was invalided out as a hopeless alcoholic. |
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Don't start with the Second or Third Concertos, which are marred by sour intonation from the French musicians. |
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Over the skin was a delicate tracery of black tattooing, marred by a badly healed wound that ran diagonally across the face. |
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She was, as always, impeccably groomed and quite beautiful, but a petulant expression on her face marred her good looks slightly. |
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It is marred only by the occasional hot-head, fuelled with Dutch courage, who runs the gauntlet to torment the custodian. |
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The event was marred by crowd trouble when a section of the 300 onlookers turned on a foreign film crew. |
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What characterizes well-designed bitstream CD players is the absence of the metallic hardness that often marred the sound of low-cost CD players. |
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Over the past decades, modern encroachments and thoughtless building have marred the historic fabric of the city. |
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Many times the country has been marred at critical moments in its development, as was the case with the attack on the Pope. |
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Not only that, but his formerly vibrant face was now marred by a sickly pallor and shadows under his eyes. |
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The mono audio track is marred by a bit of hiss, but is likewise free of major flaws. |
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It's a complicated case, marred by a disputed confession, a paucity of witnesses and the sudden, explosive nature of the incident itself. |
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Many scenes are heavily marred by dust motes, particularly those which take place at night or in shadow. |
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At half time in a game marred by a strong blustery wind blowing to the city end, North trailed by nine points. |
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The next thing you know, little league games will be marred by sports betting, immersed in the dark underbelly of gambling. |
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Countries marred by conflict or fragility have some of the highest rates of acute and chronic undernutrition in the world. |
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It is indeed a lazy production, marred by a patchy gag rate and a truly unenthused turn from its biggest star. |
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His silvery hair was unkempt, blood and bruises marred his slender body and he was skinnier than when he had come in. |
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Gone are the crackles, pops, and extreme hiss that have marred earlier public domain releases. |
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Brisbane's narrow win was marred by a refereeing controversy in the 32nd minute. |
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Outstanding beauty was marred by boxy acoustics and the artificiality of studio work. |
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However the day was almost marred by pointless and useless vandalism to one of the train carriage windows. |
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Those salty grilled shrimp marred an otherwise respectable dish of spaghettini alla Greco with a lively tomato sauce. |
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Although marred by poor sound due to traffic noise, this featurette marks the unveiling of Harryhausen's star on the Walk of Fame. |
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He writes well but the writing is marred by too many cliches and too much noninclusive language. |
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In the title story, we meet a woman whose every tryst with her married lover is marred by her depressing awareness of the affair's finitude. |
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My visit to the city was marred by all the British stag and hen parties clogging up the streets. |
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The race was marred by the fall of Ginger Jack two and a half furlongs out. |
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Its stern was marred by a gigantic chute, a ramp from sea to deck such as whaling ships use to drag aboard the 190-ton carcasses of blue whales. |
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The event was marred somewhat by the fact that I got all my money stolen out of my wallet at the coat check. |
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Her last year of life was marred not only by her illness but also by her husband's serious illnesses. |
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The ambition was laudable but the execution was marred by a series of ill-timed and increasingly expensive acquisitions. |
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His usually unguarded expression was marred by the deep frown of meditation he now wore. |
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My getting in the way marred her almost perfectly executed fashionably late entrance. |
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A significant number of people die on the spot or are condemned to reduced lifespans marred by physical incapacity. |
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Regrettably, the book is marred by numerous infelicities and occasional outright errors of translation. |
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Her efforts have been slightly marred by a hip injury but she's still determined to cross the finish line in good time. |
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But the attempt was marred by technical difficulties ranging from slow camera updates to not having the cursed thing plugged in. |
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The election was marred by violence following a clash between demonstrators and police officers. |
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However, their lives were marred by poverty and misfortune due in large part to discrimination and prejudice. |
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But Pattaya with its beautiful beaches, water sports and its spectacular shows, is an Eden marred. |
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His actions have spoiled the accommodationist agenda, and marred the image of the revolution. |
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Mr Marsh had said it was a good piece of investigative journalism which was marred by flawed reporting. |
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The lurid technicolour of bruises, angry wounds, and welts marred his skin. |
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An improvised explosive device, a pipe bomb, went off and yes, it has, I suppose, marred the reputation of the 1996 Olympics. |
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According to Sanghera, at the time of the initiation of the Khalsa, many wars and atrocities had marred the landscape of India. |
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It is a pity that a visit to this Park was marred by the presence of a lot of litter right along the new concrete path at the side of the Park. |
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However this is marred by the ambiguous lyrical content that attempts to pass itself off as meaningful. |
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While the feared large-scale violence didn't happen, the vote was marred by bloodshed and unrest. |
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England won 2-0, but it was marred by several pitch invasions as well as racist chanting, while violence flared outside the game. |
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His face, though powerful, was marred by a long scar stretching across his forehead. |
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But away from formal politics, the summit was marred by street violence, looting, three shootings and 539 arrests over two days. |
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Wasn't his perception of happiness and how to attain it desperately marred? |
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His last, wretched, years were marred by drunkenness and the depredations of the bailiffs, who carried off his household furniture. |
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A minor oil spill has not marred what has been a successful offshore oil drilling operation at Dongara, according to the major stakeholder company. |
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The performance was marred by occasional flatness, but the plunge from an extremely high to an extremely low note in the cadenza was breathtaking. |
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He had a hawkish nose, a feature that marred his otherwise handsome face. |
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However it was marred just before the end when an Allenwood player had to be removed to hospital for stitches following a nasty headbutt from an opponent. |
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Celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first powered flight were marred today when an attempt to re-enact the event did not go according to plan. |
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Fortunately, despite the recent bad weather, the underfoot conditions were reasonably good and it proved an entertaining match until heavy rain marred the final 20 minutes. |
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Much of his poetry is technically weak and diffuse, marred by careless versification, awkward shifts in diction, overblown rhetoric, and homiletic digressions. |
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While one side of his face had the swarthy beauty of a fallen angel, the left half was marred by a thick, puckered scar running from temple to chin. |
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Shia proponents of the elections will argue that while the process may be marred by violence, the process in the long term could end terrorism in Iraq. |
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The syncopations available through this electro-extension were captivating, though Kim's performance was unfortunately marred by the multiple technical failures. |
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Pizarro manages to combine these romantic emotional extremes with unusual clarity, bringing out lines that can often be marred and mushed by foggy sustain pedalling. |
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This year's festival is being held at Bramham Park for the first time after its four-year tenure at Temple Newsam Park was marred by repeated violence. |
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The shoot was marred by protesters shutting down production at one point. |
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The hand-drawn animation is lush, and this is a typically sweet and enjoyable Disney effort, marred only slightly by the inclusion of Phil Collins on the soundtrack. |
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Her tranquility in mortal crisis was the starkest kind of contrast with her life, a life marred by needless psychological pain, no rest, no peace of mind. |
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A frown marred his worried features, his lips thinning out into a line. |
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The launch of the single currency was only slightly marred by this political controversy, and the financial markets reacted calmly to the shenanigans. |
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The book offers good intentions, fascinating asides and digressions, and competent plot summary, along with textual analysis often marred by unsupported conjecture. |
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And with a history of elections marred by rigging, voters were particularly sensitive and vocal about hints of irregularities. |
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I finished my meal with a Turkish coffee, which came, very unauthentically, in a large espresso cup, almost full, the effect further marred by coffee grains all along its rim. |
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His face was marred by five deep claw marks down the left cheek that were scabbed over, but once the wounds healed they would undoubtedly leave scars. |
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At the 1999 Oshkosh show, a tragic accident marred the flying display when a ground collision occurred between aircraft taking off for fly-by display. |
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There is to be a Fifa investigation into the scenes of violence that marred the end of the World Cup qualifying playoff game between Turkey and Switzerland. |
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The accident rate in Asia has marred what was in 2014 a banner year for aviation safety. |
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Ichikowitz and his brother Eric have been marred before by corruption scandals. |
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Love is marred by the grubby ring he left round the bath, the dirty pants on the bedroom floor, the washing you asked him to hang out left screwed up in the washing machine. |
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The first-half was marred when a reckless challenge caught Graham Hutchinson with a stud and he was taken to hospital for seven stitches to a deep flesh wound. |
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Love has bloomed amid an otherwise painful period, marred by outrages large and small. |
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The calls come amid fears of a repeat of the violence which marred last year's bank holiday event when a mob went on the rampage, attacking police and burning buildings. |
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Her last official engagement before she gave birth to baby George was marred by her skirts blowing up and flashing her underwear. |
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Fighting spread a month later to the Morea, and Greek battlefield successes were marred by atrocities against Turkish civilians. |
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Her face was bruised, and crimson welts marred her bare arms. |
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Neither car would make it to the end of a race marred by the death of several spectators when Rolf Stommell's car vaulted a security fence after a rear wing failure. |
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And there is no doubt, too, that its legacy will be marred by the controversy it stirred, both on and off screen. |
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But Shabbat was marred for the man, for on that day he had no one to lay with, and the night was the longest of the week for the man because of it. |
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Despite superbly unseasonable weather, my recent trip to the Queen's View was marred by litter strewn and uncollected over the drop from the viewing point. |
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The day was marred by two high-speed crashes, the biggest of which taking out Fabian Cancellara, Froome's predecessor in the maillot jaune. |
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But his later years were marred by quarrels with his eldest son and heir, the Dauphin Louis, who refused to obey him. |
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Although Davis had initially been the favourite, it was widely acknowledged that his candidacy was marred by a disappointing conference speech. |
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The reigns of most of the Angevin monarchs were marred by civil strife and conflicts between the monarch and the nobility. |
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The day was marred by the death of William Huskisson, the Member of Parliament for Liverpool, who was struck by Rocket. |
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The festivities of the opening day were marred when William Huskisson, the popular Member of Parliament for Liverpool, was killed. |
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Richter conducted the premiere, which was marred by a poorly prepared chorus, which sang badly. |
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The atmosphere at the Games was marred, however, when a bomb exploded during the celebration in Centennial Olympic Park. |
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While generally strong, the safety record of the company was marred in February 2007 when a Virgin express derailed at Grayrigg in Cumbria. |
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Their initial studio work was marred by a heated disagreement between Bowie and Cambridge over the latter's drumming style. |
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The referendum was again marred by reports of vote rigging on the part of the French authorities. |
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However, the derby game at Ninian Park was marred with controversy as referee Mike Dean was struck by a coin from a Cardiff City supporter. |
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This account, reconstructed from the written record, is severely marred by the cartographic record. |
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Its economy grew rapidly largely through fishing, although this was marred by disputes with other nations. |
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The reputation of Tacitus' Germania is somewhat marred as a historical source by the writer's rhetorical tendencies. |
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But Sofala's harbor was marred by a long moving sandbank and hazardous shoals, making it quite unsuitable as a stop for the India armadas. |
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Upstate New York experiences warm summers, marred by only occasional, brief intervals of sultry conditions, with long and cold winters. |
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His secretaryship was marred by accusations of corruption, but the next secretary of state was called incompetent. |
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Snow-melting south winds and rain below 2,400m have marred much of the fantastic early-season base and created off-piste avalanche risk. |
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A few organizational difficulties marred this spiel and the next, but thereafter most of the wrinkles were ironed out. |
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The latest match on Whins Pond was marred by the weather at the Penrith fishery and it only took a single 4lb 1oz tench to win for Brian Edwards. |
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In contrast, the latter sub-period from 1992 to 2005 was a period of Guam's economic history marred by natural and manmade disasters. |
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The book is marred only by an often unidiomatic English prose style that really should have been vetted by a native speaker. |
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The book is marred by dozens upon dozens upon dozens of mistakes of spelling, grammar, and diction. |
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It is unfortunate that this beautiful book is marred by numerous misspellings of proper nouns, especially Arabic ones. |
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But the race was marred by the subsequent death of runner-up Exotic Dancer. |
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Indeed, such films are marred by a tendency to disregard the intrinsic complexity of sexual relationships, ultimately diminishing what they purulently represent. |
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Glass submerses her readers in the realistically rendered disorder of her characters' lives while keeping her story moving, but both books are marred by fairy tale elements. |
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It's a shame that it was marred by an inaccurate and inflammatory subhead. |
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A tendency to over sentimentalise his confessional lyrics marred several songs but overall it was a solid display from a songwriter who seems to be back on track. |
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Vitaly Kutuzov and Sergey Kornilenko scored for Belarus, but the match was marred by a groin injury to goalkeeper Robert Green that is set to rule him out of the finals. |
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You may, if you will, journey through life as many a valiant traveler before you has done, jousting strongheartedly with the years, marked but not marred by age. |
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Over 9000 letters between Carlyle and his wife have been published showing the couple had an affection for each other marred by frequent and angry quarrels. |
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Locke and Robert Stephenson had been good friends at the beginning of their careers, but their friendship had been marred by Locke's falling out with Robert's father. |
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Zafy's term, however, was marred by economic decline, allegations of corruption, and his introduction of legislation to give himself greater powers. |
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The event was marred by the large crowds of eager spectators who surged into the palace, knocking down a wall and forcing Edward to flee by the back door. |
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Paterson's tenure with Aberdeen was marred by his abuse of alcohol. |
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The sessions were marred by the death of Godrich's father, and Yorke's separation from his wife, Rachel Owen, who died of cancer several months after the album's completion. |
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The following races were marred with retirements and lowly finishes. |
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She joined Olivier for a European tour of Titus Andronicus, but the tour was marred by Leigh's frequent outbursts against Olivier and other members of the company. |
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A smudgy kneeprint marred the front of her pale green skirt. |
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An otherwise strong site is marred by some trashy material. Skip the many bad ER fan fictions here and take the rumors section with a huge grain of salt. |
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Their first half was marred by the entire side playing too deep, completely unable to build up any form of decent possession once the ball left their bewildered defence. |
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Critics consider that its fine qualities are marred by leaden effects. |
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