• It would be hard to imagine a better way of blighting the euro's birth.

    ECONOMIST: Fanfare for the euro | The

  • Employers are being asked to help workers boost their numeracy skills amid fears that poor maths is blighting Britain's economic performance.

    BBC: Workplace maths challenge aims to boost numeracy

  • Traffic had previously been held up at the Hindhead crossroads for years, blighting the lives of people living in and around Hindhead.

    BBC: Hindhead Tunnel

  • Kevin Drum was understandably skeptical about the prospects of moving private investors to purchase and upkeep a blighting (if not blighted) housing stock.

    FORBES: Obama Rental Plan May Work In Some Cities, But Not In All of Them

  • St Albans MP Anne Main has described the delay as "enormously frustrating" because the continuing possibility of the development was "blighting the lives" of her constituents.

    BBC: St Albans freight terminal decision delayed

  • He was also worried the contract did not represent value for money, there could be a risk to health and the uncertainty was blighting the local community.

    BBC: King's Lynn waste incinerator plan under fire in Commons

  • Earlier this year, the groups warned that warm homes were in danger of becoming a luxury as escalating fuel costs were "blighting the lives" of millions of families.

    BBC: A pensioner by a heater

  • Crumbling school buildings, lack of facilities, overcrowding and inadequately trained teachers are blighting the chances of too many children in disadvantaged areas, claims the American Civil Liberties Union.

    BBC: Teachers reject tax exemption

  • What is more, says Leo Drollas of the Centre for Global Energy Studies, a consultancy, they are unlikely to agree to big cuts for fear of further blighting the world economy.

    ECONOMIST: The anti-West

  • She described "a Tory-led government doing what all Tory-led governments have done since 1948 - attacking the NHS" and argued that the Lib Dems' reversal on student tuition fees was "blighting the life chances" of young people.

    BBC: Queen's Speech debate

  • Reached by a four-minute ferry ride from Cunnamore Pier on the mainland near Skibbereen, the quaint, whitewashed building is one of the many traditional-style cottages that still outnumber the bungalows blighting much of the Irish countryside.

    BBC: Ireland��s outlying islands

  • The increase in just one year illustrates the open-ended nature of the guarantee that is so blighting the insurer's prospects, since it has to set aside reserves in gilts in order to meet the obligation even if this means selling equities into falling stockmarkets.

    ECONOMIST: Now the insurer has to win support for its long-awaited deal

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