(1) Blight responded with a hypothetical, telling Ludlam if the ASD asked a foreign agency to get material about Australian citizens it could not access under Australian law, the IGIS would know about it and flag it in its annual report.
(2) The environment secretary, Liz Truss , has stripped farmers of subsidies for solar farms, saying they are a “blight” that was pushing food production overseas.
(3) Indeed, while people might be annoyed or alarmed at the idea of being given placebos, medics probably wouldn't need to were it not for the modern blight of the Worried Well clogging up consulting rooms.
(4) Isolates of Helminthosporium maydis from blighted corn were tested for toxicity in mice, rats, swine, rabbits, microorganisms, and tissue culture.
(5) "For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound – say through increased benefits – will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place."
(6) The England international, who has made 18 appearances in a season blighted by a number of fitness problems, has flown to the US to see Dr Peter Asnis, an orthopaedic surgeon connected to Fenway Sports Group’s other major acquisition, the Boston Red Sox, in an attempt to solve his hip injury.
(7) The disadvantaging of modern languages candidates in school examinations has been blighting the subject at all levels, and will continue to do so until the unfair grading is addressed effectively.
(8) But the bumper year was somewhat blighted in the UK as Google was one of a number of multinational companies, including Amazon and Starbucks, that came under fire from MPs over their tax arrangements .
(9) In both cases, her coaching seems to have paid off, at least for a time: those GOP lawmakers walked into decidedly fewer self-sabotaging boobytraps in the election cycle following the 2013 retreat at which she spoke, and Pence’s strong performance at the RNC last month was a bright spot in an otherwise blighted convention.
(10) 8, a super Chinese rice cultivar with high productivity, good quality and high resistance to both bacterial blight and blast.
(11) Puts another swath of west London directly under a flight path, and blights thousands more.
(12) A viral double-stranded (ds)RNA associated with reduced virulence (hypovirulence) and the accompanying biological control of the chestnut blight fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica, was shown recently to contain two contiguous coding domains designated ORF A and ORF B.
(13) We evaluated the differences between this group and those patients presenting either with a blighted ovum or beyond the first trimester, as well as the outcome of those patients with spotting early in gestation.
(14) And although in a few cases Pathfinder entailed the demolition of housing in genuinely blighted areas, and though there's no doubt that northern cities were depopulated from their mid-20th century heights, market correction was always the rationale.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Part of an outer structure of a blighted home stands along Alter Road in Detroit.
(16) According to them the diagnosis of blighted ovum and missed abortion seems to be confirmed when an "empty sac" is larger than 20 mm, or the absence of heart motion is detected in an embrio greater than 10 mm, without repeated scan.
(17) It soon emerged that the City Planning Commission had already, surreptitiously, designated the area as blighted.
(18) We have synthesized and mapped a cDNA library representing the one major dsRNA element associated with hypovirulence in strain NB58 of the chestnut blight fungus, Cryphonectira (=Endothia) parasitica, which was isolated from recovering chestnut trees in New Jersey, U.S.A.
(19) This article reports the initiation of a joint hospital-school district child protection committee in an urban setting of socio-economic blight.
(20) The rail network remains blighted by the unnecessary complexities of the framework established under the privatisation he rightly criticises.
Spoilt
Definition:
() of Spoil
Example Sentences:
(1) One of the stories that took hold about the Klebolds after the shooting was that they were rich, and that Dylan’s violent behaviour was an extreme version of a spoilt child’s petulance.
(2) There's an irony here: Bausch was so influential they'll be spoilt for choice if they want choreographers like her.
(3) Veruca Salt from Charlie And The Chocolate Factory is spoilt.
(4) A series of 75 spoilt soft lenses with opacities (mostly manifesting as discrete spots or as large areas of cloudiness, chalk-white in appearance) were subjected to histochemical, electron microscopical, electron probe x-ray microanalytical, x-ray diffraction, atomic absorption spectro-photometric, and biochemical analyses.
(5) Iknow other mothers probably think my son is spoilt, that I indulge him more than they do their own kids.
(6) Brendan Rodgers was not being spoilt afterwards when he said his team should have scored more and there was something revealing about the way Wenger took off Özil, Olivier Giroud and Nacho Monreal in one triple substitution.
(7) At Bodenham you are spoilt for choice, with long sandy beaches and river pools [see footnote].
(8) "This policy has so many downsides – it violates natural law, it makes kids spoilt and thankless," she said.
(9) Some felt it was the most likable she had ever been while others believed it to be evidence that she was nothing but a spoilt brat.
(10) The shadow defence secretary, Jim Murphy, said on Twitter : "Some of these Tories are foul-mouthed spoilt little brats and now one caught by the Sun."
(11) I was really spoilt for choice, torn between a lentil and watercress salad with an unusual citrussy dressing, and buttery purple sprouting broccoli on toast, but on a sunny day, thejameskitchen's lively, punchy green soup seemed so perfectly spring-like I couldn't resist.
(12) It's there now and the incessant whingeing of lazy spoilt people is drowning out the big match atmosphere.
(13) "Seb is a person of such talent that he is spoilt for choice," said Jowell.
(14) Spain , though, are spoilt for choice when it comes to central midfielders of class and achievement.
(15) As far as politicised literature and literary criticism went, the Russian intelligentsia were spoilt for choice.
(16) On the official memorial page set up by her brother James he wrote: "I fell asleep on the track lolz," and posted images of her with text saying she was spoilt.
(17) For him, and a growing number of his generation, the south is a refuge from the insane consumerism of America's coastal cities, a less-spoilt idyll, where roots run deep.
(18) She used to be just a rich society girl: thin, blonde, with a sharp tongue and a reputation for being spoilt.
(19) Which is possibly why we "onlies" have such a bad rep. We're either spoilt brash extroverts or loner introverts, selfish to the core.
(20) They’re acting like spoilt children in a playground, who don’t want to hear that playing with matches could burn down the school.