Sentences with phrase «as blighted»

That prevents municipalities from defining a perfectly good property as blighted if it's located in or near a blighted area.

The Claim is cold and sterile — even the interiors are shot in drab and over-warm browns as impersonal in their way as the blighted exteriors.

The district attorney described the land as blighted and said heavy industrial equipment littered the area, with five 10,000 gallon oil tanks buried underground, two of which were leaking.

The city of Milwaukee's Zoning, Neighborhoods & Development Committee voted unanimously Tuesday to designate an apartment building at 845 N. 25th St. as blighted.

In Wau, just as these blighted areas of Nigeria, cattle rustling is a big rural crime.

Quit characterizing the problem as a blight on our economy (an unbiased economic analysis would be helpful, methinks).

Opponents commonly refer them to them as a blight on the natural landscape and complain about amplitude modulation - the continuous pounding noise regularly associated with turbines.

«For too long Penn Station has been outdated and overcrowded, serving as a blight on the greatest city in the world,» Cuomo said in a statement announcing the request for proposals.

«Chestnut trees are a vital part of healthy woodlands and long stood as a symbol of healthy communities as well, here in Erie County and across the eastern U.S.. Then, communities nationwide were stricken and watched helplessly as blight took these magnificent trees by the millions across decades, leaving lone sentinels dotting the landscape where thousands of their counterparts had flourished,» said Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz.

By Sean Ryan A dispute over what qualifies as blight is at the heart of Oak Creek's possible use of eminent domain to take a farm and clear the way for development.

Certain areas with deep currents such as Blight passage has visibility over 100 feet all year round.

Her chromosomes were perceived as a blight upon the world and so for her whole life she has been shunned and outcast, even by her own father.

This isn't a condemnation or anything, but it could be seen as a blight on an otherwise bezel-less phone.

TIFs started as blight busters and still fill that role, though they have spread well beyond dilapidated downtowns.

Not exact matches

The tax cut expanded tax - advantaged accounts for workers, and provided tax incentives for business investment in blighted areas, as well as for hiring disadvantaged workers.

And as coal investors have fled in droves to invest in more profitable companies and industries, coal workers have been left with pink slips and mortgages on houses with few buyers in blighted coal country.

He cited America's history of giving «sanctuary to desperate children for centuries,» the «blight on our national reputation» when we refused to accept Jewish children fleeing the Nazis in 1939, and his Christian faith as reasons for the decision.

Framingham officials are considering expanding the city's nuisance bylaw as a way to clean up blighted areas.

Progress on this front has been blighted by the emerging trend known as «county lines», where gangs avoid detection by sending vulnerable youths to towns around the UK to exploit new drug markets.

As long as even a handful of scholars continue to find her pursuit of goodness attractive, there is hope even for the nearly blighted groves of academAs long as even a handful of scholars continue to find her pursuit of goodness attractive, there is hope even for the nearly blighted groves of academas even a handful of scholars continue to find her pursuit of goodness attractive, there is hope even for the nearly blighted groves of academe.

The rich may be proud that God has shown him his spiritual poverty... Just as surely will the rich man and his ways fall into the blight of decay.

I have decided to use one of the letters of St. Paul that addresses the most serious blight that presently exists among believers in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior: divisions within the powerful river of faith that are dividing us into swirling eddies and meandering tributaries.

The modern city, where more and more of us want to live, enjoys its munificence at the expense of the rural areas as Arthur E. Holt has forcibly brought home in This Nation Under God.6 Those fortunate enough to live in suburbs or other desirable residential districts enjoy their space and light partly through the exploitation of the crowded and blighted areas.

Whether this impulse is a trace of some particularly vicious strain humans inherited from simian ancestors or whether it is the worst blight of original sin, we seem to be stuck with it as a part of human nature.

The family has enough societal sanction for inducing claustrophobia that conflict there — as between mothers and daughters in the kitchen or between fathers and sons over life styles — can blight a personality.

But it is surely the case that there are no blighted lives (apart from his own) as a result of anything he has done: there are undoubtedly, however, many whose lives he has touched who will share my deep belief that he has now suffered enough.

There are many factors that can, on their face, be identified as causes for the blight in our communities, but at their root for the most part is the contemporary crisis of the family.

Spiritually, however, it is a stagnant time, as Updike's coarsened diction and blighted commercial landscape reveal.

But the blighting effect of advertising, itself the necessary child of the profit drive of corporate capitalism, goes beyond its own message to what it does to the culture, or what passes as such, for which it pays.

After some fitful starts, it became evident that it was not possible for the countries of the South to embark on the path of industrialization (which was perceived as the only way to escape from the blight of underdevelopment) by integrating themselves into the international capitalist system.

While this [chile] variety, at the present time, is not entirely immune to the blight, it does show that it is not so susceptible to the wilt as the unimproved varieties.

DuPont ™ Zorvec ™ disease control provides unmatched control of late blight, making it a critical component of your crop business as potato production in China increases.

Whenever susceptible rice varieties are grown in environments that favor bacterial blight, very high yield losses, as much as over 70 %, may be caused by bacterial blight.

The flight south comes as Australia's wine industry emerges from a disastrous few decades, blighted by a high Australian dollar and a lengthy grape glut that saw exports plummet.

The 26 - year - old has been blighted by injuries throughout his career, but has made 190 appearances for the Gunners in total having joined them as a youngster back in 2001.

The San Francisco 49ers stood as a potential emblem of ridicule, a blight on both the NFL and the community they presumed to represent.

As a team blighted with injuries for years we should be the team with the most depth in the EPL but our manager seems to ignore that fact.

The Spaniard hasn't featured since last October as he has continued to be blighted by injuries and has been a costly absentee for the Gunners.

Speaking after the game, Gary Speed identified the individual errors as being akin to those that blighted Wales» loss against England, and expressed disappointment that such lapses in concentration had resurfaced.

Ths fact that a player has bad attitude doesn'tcmean he won't make it.I can cite many examples who are even world class players.Jadon Sancho can make it and I think under Arsene's guidance he can help him grow better.People mostly think the club can't affect a player's attitude and has no impact on a player's attitude which is untrue.I think Van Persie had a very bsd attitude as a youngster but it becsme far better as time went on.Sturridge has only been blighted byvinjuries but his like Wilshere his talent and potential is world class not normal.It's never been an issue of attitude with him.

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.

Injuries have blighted Wiltshire, s career and as a consequence we are never likely to see him fulfil the talent he displayed as a youngster.

Injuries continue to blight the England international's spell at Anfield, as he has managed just 14 Premier League appearances this season, scoring two goals and providing two assists.

Efford Chabala, who died in the air disaster that blighted the Zambia national team in 1993, started his career as a striker and only went in goal after his team's regular keeper failed to show up for a game.

As to our team, once again we are blighted by injury; it seems as one player comes back we lose anotheAs to our team, once again we are blighted by injury; it seems as one player comes back we lose anotheas one player comes back we lose another.

The Captain Fantastic, Vincent Kompany, has an injury - blighted campaign and is likely to leave this summer as Pep has options to believe in.

One season with AC Milan was followed by a short spell with Real Betis, which was blighted by legal battles as the midfielder sued the club for breach of contract.

Not only did he keep Jermaine Pennant in his pocket, which nullified one of Stoke's main attacking threats, but he was faultless in possession, as well as eradicating the losses of concentration that can sometimes blight his game.

A strong showing from Haas was blighted slightly by reliability issues as both Force Indias crept into the top 10.

So interpretation of royal numbers tends to be blighted by a data problem known as «confirmation bias» - which basically means «you get what you look for».