Sentences with phrase «blights out»

At an artist talk at the Foundation Gallery in New Orleans, Arts and Activism with Blights Out: Loren Schwerd and Cypress Building Conservation, Schwerd discussed urban development and the relationship between art and activism.

Blights Out is a community - and artist - led initiative to activate community agency in neighborhood development.

Craig Magraff at Blights Out's «Live Action Painting» event in Tremé, June 2015.

Courtesy Blights Out, New Orleans.

Blights Out isn't an individual's art project.

Hatred for the Dark festers as Alyn battles a raging torrent inside: an alluvion yearning to sweep this perceived blight out of existence.

Not exact matches

In addition to its blighted multibillion dollar Nokia acquisition in 2014, the company has phased out support for its unpopular Windows Phone in recent months.

One could believe that Lewis was a theologically idiotic, reactionary old misogynist who couldn't write his way out of a wet paper bag, whose Narnia tales are a disgraceful blight on the landscape of children's literature, whose Aslan is a blasphemous parody of Our Lord, and — believing all that — one could still be a faithful Christian, even a devoted Anglican.

Locke himself was all about, in the words of Ronald Bailey, not «submitting to the tyranny of Nature's lottery — which cruelly deals out futures blighted with ill health, stunted mental abilities, and early death.»

The economy went into a tailspin, people were out of work, the factories stood idle, mortgaged farms were lost, banks closed, futures were blighted.

Her ethereal personality turned out to be the forewarning of a mental illness that blighted her adulthood — schizophrenia, I think.

When blight wiped out my tomatoes a few years back, I made salsa out of yellow plums instead.

it could be the test for this season ahead is one of attrition, who'll be blighted most by injuries or worn out with fatigued and depleted team.

Barcelona splashed out a whopping # 135.5 m ($ 140m) on the French international last summer, as per BBC Sport, but he simply hasn't been able to replicate his form at Borussia Dortmund, scoring just one goal and providing six assists in 15 games as he's also been blighted by injuries.

In turn, that has seemingly led to doubts over his future, although given Berardi has managed just three goals and two assists in 25 appearances this season, coupled with being blighted by injuries in recent times, it isn't quite the stand - out replacement that many Milan fans would be hoping for.

Joining the club - today we found out that at 7 weeks our «baby» is apperently a blighted ovum.

If, however, you have had three consecutive miscarriages, especially if they were not blighted ovums, you should see a doctor and try to find out the underlying cause.

Some shadow cabinet sources said they would have preferred an absolute Labour commitment to an in / out referendum, but that would have left Miliband open to the accusation — made against the Tories — that he was leaving a question mark over Britain's continued membership of the EU, and so blighting future inward business investment in the UK.

«In an annual report to Common Councilors, Wright pointed out how the agency over the last five years has not only cleared out blight in city neighborhoods, but has helped the city bottom line, bringing in millions in formerly uncollected taxes, as well as $ 19 million in private renovation investment of the 537 properties it sold.

Just check out the so - called minor - league baseball stadium he's tying to build in a heavy wooded lot next to a golf course that he calls a «blighted area.»

The planting marks the first time in memory that American Chestnut seedlings have been planted at their namesake county park and begins a re-introduction plan that will eventually see these trees cross-pollinated with chestnut strains that are resistant to the blight which wiped out thousands of their forebears in the Park and across WNY.

The new seedlings will be planted throughout Chestnut Ridge Park in groups of 2 - 3, which will spread out the population and make it harder for blight to spread from tree to tree.

«ActionAid remains concerned that the proposals in this paper for aid vouchers and payment by results will turn out to yet another of the well - meaning but ultimately damaging experiments that can blight the lives of the poor.»

The President noted that, the joblessness and under - employment that have blighted the lives of Ghana's youth will be overcome, «when we provide laboratories and workshops and the qualified teachers that would turn out skilled school leavers.»

The researchers carried out a survey in China to establish a link between weather and the severity of epidemics of fusarium ear blight on the wheat crops.

But he points out that the effectiveness of the RB gene against late blight has yet to be tested in the field.

ELM trees can now be «vaccinated» against Dutch elm disease, the dreaded blight which has wiped out tens of millions of elms around the world.

The Irish Potato Famine: In the 1840s, an outbreak of potato blight swept through Europe and wiped out the potato crop in many countries.

Unfortunately, it turns out to be the same blighted gaff that Radcliffe encountered in the original movie, and is haunted by a vindictive female spirit.

Starting out as a fledgling Rider just hatching his first Monstie — a cringe - inducing term meaning monster - bestie — you will traverse the world of Monster Hunter, collecting eggs and hatching them in order to raise these Monsties and fight alongside them to defeat a mysterious threat known only as the Black Blight.

The ridiculous plot blighted the book and, despite Levinson's efforts to phase out some of the novel's excesses, he still struggles whenever he incorporates some of the the screwball elements into the plot.

A family - man first, Gerry (Brad Pitt) escapes Philly, I mean Newark, I mean some hell - hole, finding sanctuary on an aircraft carrier where the best and brightest and the Declaration of Independence are secreted to wait out the early days of the blight.

it is said to remove their affliction, they need to kill the main werewolf responsible for the blight, which proves to be close to home for the two once they find out who it is.

The Black Blight infecting the world and its creatures drives your character out into the world in a way that a menu of hunt missions simply would not, giving an overarching goal instead of a series of checkpoints to hit.

Schools are crying out for action and evidence - based policies to tackle the education funding crisis, chaos over primary assessment, and the blight of excessive teacher workload.

This possibly marginal improvement of scores, created through great statistical effort, had been touted as being of great significance and it turns out all of this money spent and reorganization effort has amounted to nothing since we don't have reconciliation with the incompetent teachers that blighted the system pre-Katrina.

I used to believe a school could be the sole beacon amid the blight, that it could lead everyone out of the darkness.

For two years after Ethel had left him for the Nashville guitarist, Roger had immersed himself in a study of late blight of potato, and that look of resignation, wisdom, and patience had come into his face that was brought out so well in the Agrisearch photograph.»

There's no over-valuation to be wrung out of the market, no market bottom to be guessed at, no blight of negative equity to scar a generation, no foreclosure / second home inventory overhang, no multi-billion mortgage scandals & litigation — it's just business as usual.

Organized veterinary medicine, that reaped great profits for the drug companies selling antibiotics, vaccines and a host of other drugs, never voiced concern over the proliferation of cruel factory farms, so - called concentrated animal feeding operations that now blight rural America, helped put family farms out of business and now pose significant environmental and public health risks.

... Another set of podcasts Our plan to record last week was blighted by technical difficulties, but it turned out to be a blessing in disguise as we found ourselves with a lot more to talk about.

I don't believe they're the moral blight on the industry that some people might make them out to be, but nor are they a practice that should be encouraged.

The Black Blight infecting the world and its creatures drives your character out into the world in a way that a menu of hunt missions simply would not, giving an overarching goal instead of a series of checkpoints to hit.

The artist intends to work directly on blighted houses and empty public housing projects to, as the artist has described, «Connect them geographically, to tease out their spirit by pasting the lines of a play onto their face; to insert voice and accentuate aspects of their structure or color on the surfaces of the houses.»

«Summer Chestnut Leaves,» silkscreen Two weeks ago, the New York Times reported on efforts by two groups of plant breeders and geneticists to create an American chestnut that can withstand the blight that wiped out the tree by the billions in the first half of the Read More...

Two weeks ago, the New York Times reported on efforts by two groups of plant breeders and geneticists to create an American chestnut that can withstand the blight that wiped out the tree by the billions in the first half of the 20th century.

The use of genetically optimized crop varieties increases the risk that a single blight or disease might wipe out a large proportion of the food supply.

On such an afternoon some score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be... engaged in one of the ten thousand stages of an endless cause, tripping one another up on slippery precedents, groping knee - deep in technicalities, running their goat - hair and horse - hair warded heads against walls of words and making a pretence of equity with serious faces, as players might... between the registrar's red table and the silk gowns, with bills, cross-bills, answers, rejoinders, injunctions, affidavits, issues, references to masters, masters» reports, mountains of costly nonsense, piled before them... This is the Court of Chancery, which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire, which has its worn - out lunatic in every madhouse and its dead in every churchyard, which has its ruined suitor with his slipshod heels and threadbare dress borrowing and begging through the round of every man's acquaintance, which gives to monied might the means abundantly of wearying out the right, which so exhausts finances, patience, courage, hope, so overthrows the brain and breaks the heart, that there is not an honourable man among its practitioners who would not give — who does not often give — the warning, «Suffer any wrong that can be done you rather than come here!

«Ninety - five percent of landlords do a good job because otherwise tenants move out and move somewhere else,» he said, adding, rental properties are not the cause of all blighted neighborhoods.»

At the same time, the association is developing a set of core principles (the definition of blight, for example) and rolling out a radio and print ad campaign in states considering association - backed legislation.