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...decorated in support of the NHS and the LGBT+ community, was recently forced to submit a retrospective planning application to the local council after complaints of an “ugly”, “garish”, “inappropriate” blot...
...The only blot of an otherwise encouraging picture: higher than expected inflation....
...Though I make more of an effort when venturing out into the world, removing visible coffee stains and ink blots, I also struggle to remember the last time I wore a suit at work....
...Even if the investigation were to end today it would also leave a major blot on Mr Trump’s presidency....
...Mr Trump said if intelligence officials did divulge details of the allegations to the media it would be a “tremendous blot on their record”....
...My long-suffering husband, Mike, isn’t that interested in pylons....
...“Inappropriately sited wind turbines can be a blot on the landscape, harming the local environment and damaging heritage for miles around,” he said....
...One blot on Cambridge’s reputation as a business centre is road congestion....
...“At one moment, Armstrong realised that he could extend his fist and, using only his thumb, blot out the earth,” Nelson writes, describing the astronaut’s walk across the moon’s surface....
...Relief at escaping incineration was presumably supposed to blot out the shock of unemployment....
...This year’s edition of the monumental survey of world markets conducted annually for ABN Amro by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton, three academics at the London Business School, shows that there...
...“It’s probably easier to do it in certain products like wealth management, investment products and deposits,” said Mike Trippett, an analyst at Oriel Securities. “Mortgages is less easy....
...It’s a simmering evocation of one of the bloodiest blots on the copybook of British colonial rule....
...Mike Johanns, US agriculture secretary, played down the discovery, saying it was more dangerous crossing a road to buy meat than to consume it....
...The US Navy meltdown is not the only blot on the EDS copybook. Big projects for the UK Child Support Agency and Inland Revenue were also dogged by delays and errors....
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