Yet when it comes to the space around our televisions, the box can be such a blight.
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Far from being worthy of the Committee's high praise, such an alignment is a blight on America's reputation.
Cities were considered a blight on the environment: energy-hogging, pollution-spewing, garbage-producing environmental hellholes.
Paying out in this way seems to support protectionists' contention that trade is a blight on employment like no other.
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The schoolboys he taught before and after the second world war, and the war itself, cast a blight on his view of humanity.
Yet for all Europe's excoriations of Gitmo as a blight on America, no one jumped at this easy chance to reduce the prison population.
Empty homes were a blight on communities, said the charity, often attracting fly-tipping and vandalism, which can tie up local resources and deter investment in an area.
Local officials seeking the revitalization tools that accompany a blight designation, but without frightening residents about the possibility of using eminent domain, could opt for the second track.
These were considered by the dominant Left culture to be an intolerable apostasy and resulted in a blight on Ron's ability to get work anywhere in the entertainment industry.
This is a radical move... poor numeracy is a blight on an individual's life chances and we believe that employees will be as keen as their employers to improve their skills.
On Sunday, MP for North Thanet Roger Gale welcomed the decision to approve the compulsory purchase order, saying the theme park had been a blight on Margate seafront for "far too long".
Ponting said the referral of disputed catches to inadequate technology was a "blight on the game".
Netbooks were terrible machines, a technological blight that threatened to become the future of computing.
But others cited confidence as a possible blight on the Christmas shopping season and on economic recovery in general.
In July, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gave the go ahead for a gm blight-resistant potato crop to be tested in County Carlow.
He said: "I don't want you or me or anyone else to be in any doubt about the scale of the task ahead to deal with a debt crisis that threatens to blight a generation".
Large-scale land concessions often generate a planning blight effect, which here refers to the uncertainty and deleterious effects on the social fabric and economic activities in targeted areas once a land allocation decision is made, or once negotiations between government and prospective investors have begun.
When crop blight struck the farmers in China, they came across a researcher in Brazil who had already created a solution to the blight for their region.
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So they teamed with a nonprofit organization called the Motor City Blight Busters, which provides a low-cost work force that renovates the homes for Urban Detroit Wholesalers to sell.
Mr Bush's own father may have been a victim of statistical blight.
In a soft-spoken but fiercely candid way, he talks about the city's seemingly insurmountable problems--high crime and unemployment, miserable schools, government cronyism, urban blight, a continuing brain drain, relentless push-back against painful cuts and, above all, the debt, the mountainous debt.
Overall crime, according to the British Crime Survey, down by 4 million incidents a year, with the blight of burglary down to its lowest level for over 20 years.
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"I will lead a relentless focus on those who blight our lives, " he said.
The litter of discarded bottles and cans is a safety hazard, a public nuisance and an aesthetic blight.
The slight let-up in potholes this time last year may have been just a blip in the annual pothole blight that seems to beset us each spring.
Walking through a Montana wheat field infected with bacterial blight, he found some plants with no trace of the disease.
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