In 1845, Ireland was hit by a potato blight.

Lesser known than the Irish potato famine, the Icelandic potato famine was caused by the same blight that ravaged most of Europe during the 1840s.

Now there's a blight on the planet.

We are more than simply national symbols of urban blight.

International Year of the Potato, 2008

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And that Allah may prove those who believe , and may blight the disbelievers .

And that Allah may prove those who believe , and may blight the disbelievers .

Draft resolution III International Year of the Potato, 2008

Decides to declare 2008 the International Year of the Potato

Child Potatoes. Jamie Oliver Potato? So, you think these are potatoes?

1. Decides to declare 2008 the International Year of the Potato

That is an appalling situation and a blight on a key area of United Nations activity.

Borrelly's nucleus was also potato shaped and had a dark black surface.

Potato dextrose agar (PDA) is used to culture certain types of fungi.

Decides to declare the year 2008 the International Year of the Potato

The semi conductor chips versus potato chips debate also underlined a different point.

In fact, we ate so many sweet potatoes I became orange with sweet potato.

So when Kim Jong il passes from the scene, and political instability meets economic blight, the regime could fall apart.

Cottage pie or shepherd's pie is a meat pie with a crust of mashed potato.

Noting that the potato is a staple food in the diet of the world's population,

Noting that the potato is a staple food in the diet of the world's population,

New things were changing even everyday life, such as starting of potato farming after the 1750s.

Facilitor, Mr. Stefano Toscano (Switzerland), on a draft resolution on the International Year of the Potato

Amundson also notes that the sweet potato was not available to the monkeys prior to human intervention.

I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands yet you didn't turn to me,' says Yahweh.

The potato eventually formed the basis of many traditional Irish dishes after its introduction in the 16th century.

The semi conductor chips versus potato chips debate also underlined a different point. Many proponents of semiconductor chips also presumed that what you worked at determined whether, in your outlook, you would be a dunce (producing potato chips) or a with it modernist (producing semiconductor chips).

The stigma surrounding the disease remains hard to dispel, and results in discriminatory attitudes and practices that continue to blight the lives of millions of people.

Lunch is served, and we finally break our diet of bulgur, potato and chicken bones along with the rest of the inmates.

For instance, many Bulgarians went to the UK to work as strawberry and potato pickers or to Greece to work as hotel maids.

There is also a strong industrial sector which focuses on the processing of potato, sugar, milk, and cheese and the production of textiles.

Despite vast sums of money spent aiding such states over the last 50 years, armed conflict and violence continue to blight the lives of millions of people around the world.

On the other hand, you could produce potato chips, trade them for semiconductor chips that you put into your PC, and become a computer wizard!

China must stop subsidizing fossil fuels, embrace the electric car, and tackle the thick clouds of urban pollution that are a blight to local residents and a stain on its international reputation.

Some argue that government is not good at picking winners. Some argue that it makes no difference whether a country produces potato chips or computer chips.

But, in the 1840 s, mass immigration, fueled by the Irish potato famine, altered the state s demographic balance, enabling populists to gain control of the legislature.

These are subjects coming to an experiment to be asked the simplest of all questions How much will you enjoy eating potato chips one minute from now?

For example, potato cyst nematodes emerge from their protective cysts in response to a chemical excreted by potatoes they feed on the potatoes and damage the crop.

Yahweh will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blight, and with mildew and they shall pursue you until you perish.

You've all experienced this yourself, even if you've never come into our lab to eat potato chips. So here's a question You want to buy a car stereo.

If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities whatever plague, whatever sickness there is

I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees have the swarming locust devoured yet you haven't returned to me, says Yahweh.

Namely, those who are looking at Spam think potato chips are going to be quite tasty those who are looking at Godiva chocolate think they won't be nearly so tasty.

That is perhaps an easy point to recognize for this author, the Catholic grandson of Irish potato famine emigrants who, nevertheless, became a British minister and Britain s last colonial governor.