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'I don't know; but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like apples on our scabbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound a few blighted. '

Dida's days at Milan seem to be numbered after a miserable campaign that was blighted by a succession of injuries and howlers.

I believe that what is called experience is often but an avowed fatigue, resignation, blighted hope.

He's been blighted by injuries so far in his career. He's a top goalkeeper and I just hope he gets a little break now.

had blighted his life and made him hard and bitter, and she felt that what he needed was the love of a good woman.

He made over 360 appearances for the club, but recent seasons have been blighted by injury.

But urban development has blighted its scenery, leading officials to prune some of the latest additions to its landscape.

It is not, as might be expected, in a blighted city center, but in the once-booming suburbia of Southern California.

The aim is to end a coal-digging free-for-all that is blamed for a blighted environment and hundreds of deaths every year.

For centuries, Europe was been a continent blighted by frequent and destructive wars.

With its housing market blighted and its consumers growing fearful, America now faces a mounting risk of recession.

It had blighted the planet with pollution and mass starvation, and scarred it with atrocious wars.

Blighted and battered, but still responsive and still ironic , his face was like a lighted lantern patched with paper.

The child receives but a blighted memory of its father's stripes.

But the city's districts, many blighted with abandoned buildings, did not get much cash.

There was the same thick air, difficult to breathe; the same blighted ground, the same hopeless prospect, the same misery and distress.

But it was thrice blighted. After the earthquake and tsunami, fuel from the fishing boats caught fire, and for four days the port burned.

Giay grabbed the money box and rode into a blighted neighborhood.

THE recent news from Myanmar, that beautiful, blighted land formerly known as Burma, has offered an all-too-rare cause for optimism.

to see a bright young life so rudely blighted, so untimely cut down ?

But that's China, not Britain, and there the cruelty and injustice involved go way beyond a few blighted lives and businesses.

Irish banks may be free of the toxic securities that have poisoned rivals' balance sheets, but they are blighted by souring property loans.

MOST recession-blighted manufacturers worry that their next order is likely to be for mothballs.

A taking of property in a severely blighted neighborhood for the purpose of building affordable housing could fall into this category.

'Over the past few months I have met many whose lives were blighted, and heard their personal stories, ' she said.

Northern creditors recoiled as they increasingly doubted the ability of the blighted economies to repay the debts they had amassed.

He cites the pork industry, which used to be blighted with hog cholera.

The 'curse' that blighted those who opened the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun was a triumph of media hype and public susceptibility.

Pantani died of a cocaine overdose, after his career was blighted by a positive blood-doping test.

On the economic side huge challenges loom, among them an ageing population and a blighted environment, both of which could drag down growth.

The road to this, the least developed province, is unpaved, checkpointed and blighted by bandits and the Taliban.

Thousands of sails pass by a wrecked ship; Myriads of trees flourish before a blighted one.

His reputation was blighted by his bad behavior .

The erosion of executive authority affected not only adversaries; it blighted as well relations with our friends.

Infamous for its brutal network of gulags, North Korea is also struggling to pay its debts and is blighted by hunger and floods.

There are few such clear examples of an entire industry being blighted by trade protectionism as the US merchant marine fleet.

The main organiser of last month's games, Suresh Kalmadi, was publicly booed by Indians for the blighted event.

CONS: Lagging wage growth, blighted downtown in the midst of a stop-and-go redevelopment.

In financial markets blighted by a crisis of confidence, employing CFA holders can help restore client trust.

This embarrassing blunder nearly blighted his career before it got off the ground.

Film became a positive influence, blighted only by his desire for perfection.

Blighted beaches won't attract tourist and the fishing industry in vicinity of oil spill can be nearly wiped out.

You are a blighted being, and decidedly cross today because you can't sit in the lap of luxury all the time.

A dozen bomb blasts, including one at a mosque last month that killed two worshippers, further blighted the process.

By contrast, in much of Asia, also blighted by graft, leaders more often keep ill-gotten gains in local accounts.

These numbers tell us of hopes dashed and lives blighted across the globe.

Are hopes being destroyed, small businesses being driven into bankruptcy, lives being blighted?

Further price declines seem likely given the toxic mix of blighted mortgage markets and swollen inventory.

a public agency given responsibility for the renovation of blighted urban areas.

A recent poll showed crime is the number one concern of most city residents and many areas remain blighted.

Once blighted by logging and industry, the region has undergone a renaissance of woods and waters.

The home market may be the second biggest in the world, but it is blighted with massive capacity and volatile pricing.

But the monument's vista is blighted by two busy roads, one of which runs right by it.

As joblessness soars and the hopes of hundreds of millions of people are blighted, the financial sector's survivors are thriving.

Ephraim is blighted , their root is withered, they yield no fruit. Even if they bear children, I will slay their cherished offspring.

This autumn of blighted hopes marked a decisive turn in Liang 's career.

When life was hard, people had to feed on blighted grains.

But in blighted cities, he says, they have an extra reason to stay: if they move out, they will not be able to afford a house elsewhere.

Attempts to rethink the care of the elderly and needy have in the past been blighted by political wrangling.

Most now live in the blighted housing estates which dot the outskirts of the capital.

The fruit trees were badly blighted.

The AU also has some 1, 600 Ugandan troops under its command in Somalia's blighted capital, Mogadishu.

The apple trees were blighted by frost.

The frost has blighted my potatoes.

Illness blighted his plan.

The dry spell blighted the crops.

'Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one? '

Are these just typical post-industrial woes, or is this seemingly blighted town evidence that British multiculturalism is in crisis?

Last year's festivities were similarly blighted by violent clashes that left two people dead.

Indeed, by his own account, the vanished communities he chronicles were blighted by lethal epidemics and casual racism;

in my "Life is Like a Dream, a sprinkle Jiang also on" Su Shi in the body of the suppression of their aspirations blighted;

The last time England saw such serious riots, in 1981, much of Notting Hill was a tough place, still blighted by slum housing;

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a life blighted by tragedy