The campaign is another blot on China's human rights record.
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It's got to be a big blot on the horizon potentially.
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And Powell later acknowledged it was a blot on his record.
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That episode remains a blot on the conscience of the United States.
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" And he called the Guantanamo Bay prison a "blot on our national honor.
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Failure to do so would be a blot on an otherwise admirable record.
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And then a blot on Katherine's past resurfaces and threatens to tank it all.
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They do not constitute a singular blot on his character; they certify his identity.
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But in a perhaps unfair way, it's become a blot on Gillibrand, as well.
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Trump called the leak a "tremendous blot" on U.S. intelligence ... IF it came from them.
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"It would be a tremendous blot on their record," Trump said of the intelligence agencies.
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Any such move by the agencies would be a "tremendous blot on their record," he said.
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An Anglican bishop, Pete Broadbent, once dismissed UKIP has "a vacuous...blot on the political landscape".
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But letting them moulder in jail will be seen abroad as a blot on Spain's democracy.
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" The critic for The Los Angeles Times called it "a blot on the American film industry.
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As I see it, Syria has been his worst mistake, a huge blot on his legacy.
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Despite the court's ruling, the disaster was the biggest blot on Ms. Park's record as president.
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Plus, because of that first blot on my record, I never felt I could raise my rates.
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As a lawyer, he called slavery "a blot on our national character," while defending an abolitionist minister.
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Trump topped off his attack on Comey by dismissing him as a blot on the FBI's history.
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Franken's resignation will always be a blot on his political career, as well as its likely end.
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But for some natives, the plants are an alien blot on the landscape that need to be eliminated.
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He told me the only violent blot on his ten-year institutional record was that alleged assault on staff.
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That behavior, especially his White House affair with a 22-year-old intern, is a blot on his career.
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The abuse of migrants being held against their will in squalid, inhumane conditions is a blot on our conscience.
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With that blot on his record, however, he was barred from graduate schools and from pursuing his chosen career.
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No, nepotism would be a blot on Payton's Master Plan, which has only one final destination: The White House.
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The acquittal of Kate Steinle's killer on second degree murder charges is a blot on the legacy of America.
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But maybe the intelligence agencies which would be a tremendous blot on their record if they in fact did that.
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This is a blot on that image and highlights the pressing need in France for an open debate on racism.
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Journalists and politicians across party lines offered condolences and said the attack was a blot on India's human rights record.
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For liberals, the driving ban was a blot on the national brand that was hampering modernization and weakening the economy.
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" When statues come down, it does not mark an end to what Taney himself called "a blot on our national character.
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The best bet is censure; it's a blot on his career, of course, but better than impeachment or a criminal trial.
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Two exhaustive reports establish that the Russian government engaged in state-sponsored doping, and that is a blot on world sport.
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This was a misuse of resources, a failure that would have been a blot on the record of a summer intern.
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But persistent poverty in its mountain villages has been a blot on Mr. Xi's promise to end rural poverty by 2020.
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In his 2002 memoir, written after his loss to George W. Bush, he was still lamenting that blot on his escutcheon.
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" An editorial in The South China Morning Post, a newspaper in Hong Kong, criticized the decision as a "blot on Taiwan's image.
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While posing minimal risk to humans, the uncontrolled re-entry of the space lab is a blot on China's ambitious space program.
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Who knows, but maybe the intelligence agencies which would be a tremendous blot on their record if they in fact did that.
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Despite exploring "the blot" on society caused by underpaying educators and clergy, The Blot finds time for humor, primarily through snarky intertitles.
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His candidacy is a blot on our nation, and I for one applaud the PGA for taking away his golf event in Florida.
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The people of Megaton are building something that isn't the old world, and it's a blot on the landscape of the landed rich.
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How much of his sudden zest reflects a possible presidential bid and the need to pretty up an ugly blot on his record?
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The uncontrolled re-entry of the space lab has been a blot on China's space program, as it goes against international best practice.
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Finally, a blot on his "escutcheon," he blurted out during a recent Dodger game when Kershaw gave up a hit for the first time.
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Far from a success on any score, it was a blot on America's reputation, a program that turned immigration control into a refugee crisis.
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Mr. Powell, a former general and the first African-American to hold the post, later described the speech as a "blot" on his record.
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DAVID D. TURNER, NEW YORK To the Editor: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is retiring with a blot on his long and often distinguished career.
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I fear that the blot on the reputation of our country will be as hard to eradicate as the trauma to these poor children.
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" ■ Mr. Trump said that the document "was released by maybe the intelligence agencies, who knows, which would be a tremendous blot on their record.
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A colonial-era law that criminalizes homosexual sex is viewed by many as a blot on the idea of India as a liberal democracy.
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For Eovaldi, two wild pitches in the fifth were the lone blot on his record, as they helped Baltimore (45-53) to its first run.
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For example, where we have the EYES in the first square of 39A, the answer to the clue "Blot on a landscape" is [EYES]ORE.
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In yet another adversarial moment with the U.S. intelligence community, Trump cast the report and memo as a "tremendous blot" on the record of intelligence agencies.
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The Department of Defense also indicated that those who engage in such conduct online or in the workplace face a permanent blot on their service record.
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The fallout was a rare but highly visible blot on Brin's career, although his holdings in the company would have prevented any attempt to oust him.
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The White House seems braced for the result and does not interpret the likely outcome as a repudiation of the president or a blot on his legacy.
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He brushed aside the constitutional confrontation as a "hoax" based on unfounded charges, even as he conceded that it would be a permanent blot on his presidency.
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There had hitherto been little acknowledgement at Mount Vernon of this dreadful blot on Washington's reputation, or of the hundreds of black slaves who lived and worked there.
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And though my awareness of this was a dark blot on what had been, up to then, a pure joy, I didn't know what to do with it.
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"This is another blot on the Indian exports resume," said an analyst at a local brokerage, who asked not to be named as it would violate his firm's policies.
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In 21941, after years of trying to remove the blot on his record, Mr. Dwork, supported by advocates for gay and lesbian military personnel and veterans, won his point.
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A murder case would have been a blot on their caste, and by brokering the cover-up, he had performed a particularly valuable service to a key vote bank.
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The boarding school era and its erasure of language is a blot on the nation's record, and one that too few non-Natives have been forced to reckon with.
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The killings — nearly one a month for the past eight years — are a "serious blot" on Indonesia&aposs human rights record, said Usman Hamid, executive director of Amnesty International Indonesia.
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" Kabaservice doesn't see it that way: "Buckley's endorsement of Southern segregation," he writes, "was a moral blot on the conservative movement, and he later acknowledged it as his gravest error.
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But perhaps the biggest blot on Tillerson's copybook with Trump -- which he has yet to deny -- was the reports that he had called Trump a "moron" at a private dinner.
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The last time Jacobs failed to knock out an opponent was July 333, 2010, when he was stopped by Dmitry Pirog, the only blot on his 33-fight professional record.
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This is a blot on corporate Japan to rival the stain from Toshiba, which is being demoted from the first section of the bourse and frantically selling its best business.
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But Palin has done us a favor by proving that a woman can stumble, babble incoherently on stage and spew snide garbage, and it isn't a blot on the female copybook.
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It was one of the biggest frauds ever carried out against the City of New York, and a blot on former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's reputation for managerial and technological savvy.
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"Young people are taught that Muslims are a blot on this nation — do what you want with them," said J. Devika, a historian at the Center for Development Studies in Thiruvananthapuram.
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Though most politicians do not want to touch Section 377, it is viewed by many across the ideological spectrum as a blot on India's idea of itself as a liberal democracy.
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Unbeaten in the 100 at major championships in the last five years, the only blot on his resume over that period is a 50m silver at last year's Commonwealth Games in Australia.
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Opinion: Abuse of migrants in Libya is a blot on world's conscience While many of his friends from Nigeria have made it to Europe, Victory is resigned to returning home empty-handed.
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So an elected leader gets all the flak from those who oppose this white elephant/blot on the landscape but none of the praise for the reduced traffic jams or cheaper power that ensue.
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Today, I write that the aggressive and unwarranted intervention in the presidential election by FBI Director James Comey will be viewed by historians as an equally shameful blot on his legacy at the bureau.
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While there have been no consequences for Mr. Blair himself, the political judgment of the British has been decisive, rendering the Iraq war as a defining blot on Mr. Blair's 10 years in office.
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Bret: And his overall comportment continues to be a foul stain on the office of the presidency, a moral embarrassment to a majority of Americans, and a blot on the record of liberal democracy.
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Tuesday, I wrote that President Obama's failure to act to prevent or halt the massive bombing of civilians in Syria by Russian and Syrian military forces will be a shameful blot on his presidential legacy.
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It's unsurprising, then, that amid more standard "historical" exhibitions, it has embarked on contemporary shows to varying degrees of success, with the disastrous display of Damien Hirst's paintings in 2009 an unfortunate blot on everyone's memory.
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With nearly 40 percent of under-25s still out of work, youth unemployment remains the biggest blot on four years of economic recovery that have earned Spain a spot as one of the euro zone's star performers.
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The total share in all trading for the big five American investment banks rose to 3003 percent last year from 47.2 percent in 2010.. That is a major blot on an otherwise impressive copy book for Blankfein.
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Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said the U.S. facility in Cuba had been a "serious blot on the human rights record, and reputation, of the United States for the past 14 years".
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The result has been legal limbo: People whose behavior would not now be considered illegal are sometimes unable to find work, get college loans, obtain professional licenses, or find decent housing because of the blot on their record.
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The ruling by the Seoul Administrative Court is a blot on the image of Nissan, which had hoped to be exonerated of the charges of emissions cheating in the only country where it has been accused of it.
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Now, the lab is out of control and expected to crash-land on Earth by the end of March -- posing a minuscule risk to humans but inflicting a blot on the nation's bold push to become a space superpower.
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It was also a final bid to erase what has become a painful and persistent blot on his tenure: his inability to tackle an issue that animated his campaign in 2008 and in many ways encapsulates his approach to national security.
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The damage done to Turkey's relations with the Armenians and its NATO allies is the responsibility of that large majority of Turks who refuse to acknowledge a dark blot on their history, not those who seek to commemorate the tragedy.
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Lawrence Zezima, 25, a conservative gun shop owner in Broken Arrow, a Tulsa suburb, said on Saturday that many Oklahomans would consider Mr. Pruitt's problems with the Washington establishment a well-earned badge of honor — not a blot on his reputation.
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But it was the epic level of corruption reached under Mr. Zuma's presidency, which ended when he was compelled to step down in February 2018, that is the biggest blot on the country's democracy and the major obstacle to tackling the economic problems.
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But I am arrogant enough to insist that chattel slavery is too huge a blot on humanity to exploit as a metaphor, and to observe that the political smarts my critical clan sensed in the most gifted artist of the rock era were a fantasy.
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They noted that it seemed to defend a blot on Catholic history that is inextricable from the anti-Semitism of the time and that still polarizes Italian Jews today (as late as 2000, Italian Jews were protesting the beatification of Pius IX over the case).
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" Other buildings on the award's shortlist included London's "bland and boxy" Lewisham Gateway, a high-rise commercial and residential project; and an orange eco-house in South London that the judges described as "garish, blockish and a clumsy and alien blot on the streetscape.
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Plague outbreaks are spread by things like trade and army movement, which is not exactly a novel mechanic for Empire Divided, but I'd welcome an effort to do more with ancient epidemics than portray them as a momentary blot on income and population levels.
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"It would be a blot on the reputation of the state of Texas, which many of us have been working to change," said Annise Parker, who as Houston's mayor from 2010 to 2016 was the first openly lesbian candidate elected to lead a major U.S. city.
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In a moral blot on the legacy of President Obama, Democrats and Republicans in Washington and leaders of democratic nations throughout the world, estimates for the number of Syrians killed during the ongoing war there number as high as 470,85033 according to the Syrian Center for Policy Research.
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The town owes its mystique to the likes of Voodoo priestess Marie Laveau and the innumerable spirits haunting lantern-lit steamy French Quarter avenues; this is where Anne Rice put her ink blot on the map with her literary harem of lithe-bodied vampires and their devoted fans.
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"We" the people in Trump's administration doesn't include democratic voters, journalists, members of the intelligence community, many Muslims, many Mexicans, many blacks, women who want to exercise the full range of their reproductive rights, refugees, or citizens that believe the Confederacy is a blot on our nation's history.
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" Lisa says there was never a "grand reconciliation" before Steve's death at age 56 in 2011 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer, writing in the Vanity Fair excerpt, "For him, I was a blot on a spectacular ascent, as our story did not fit with the narrative of greatness and virtue he might have wanted for himself.
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Because they looked at that nonsense that was released by maybe the intelligence agencies, who knows, which would be a tremendous blot on their record if they, in fact, did that, a tremendous blot, because a thing like that should never have been written, it should never have been had, and it should certainly never have been released.
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While it's easy to sneer at the reviewer who wrote of the pharmacist-turned-poet, "Back to the shop Mr John, back to plasters, pills, and ointment boxes," one also has to acknowledge that Percy Shelley, in calling the critic a "noteless blot on a remembered name", was also engaging in criticism, albeit of a more perceptive sort.
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The MBTI's success is (to invoke another popular personality assessment device popular in the postwar period) something of a Rorschach blot: On one hand, you can see its enduring popularity as an inevitable end point of a deeply human urge to find comfort or purpose in a world often marked by injustice, failed relationships, and unsatisfying jobs.
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All decent men and women around the world, and Democrats and Republicans across America, should condemn the shameful refusal of President Obama to take action that would have saved desperate and dying Syrians whose bloodstained corpses will be viewed by historians as a moral blot on his legacy, as I wrote last August in a column in The Hill.
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"I must say that I want to thank a lot of the news organizations here today because they looked at that nonsense that was released by maybe the intelligence agencies – who knows, but maybe the intelligence agencies, which would be a tremendous blot on their record if they did do that, a tremendous blot," Trump said from Trump Tower on Wednesday.
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Although he was far from perfect — he did, for example, suggest in the early '90s that AIDS was a punishment from God (he later apologized), and anti-Semitic remarks he made in the company of Richard Nixon left an indelible blot on his reputation — he was, for the majority of his career, a religious figure who transcended and unified the political spectrum.
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The Democratic impeachment managers, led by Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, warned that Mr. Trump had tried to rig the 2020 election in his favor — by withholding military aid from Ukraine in an effort to pressure the country to investigate his political rivals — and had put a blot on the presidency that would stain those who failed to stand up to him.
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But I had already read many of those, and they had left me convinced that she has been quietly conducting, from that vexed and ever-expanding blot on the American fabric where white and black bleed into each other, one of the smartest, funniest and most profound interrogations of the racial madness that governs and stifles our national life that I had ever encountered.
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