mixed blessing

The identity of the Taliban leader reportedly killed in the drone strike—Wali-ur Rehman—is another mixed blessing.

Not every Palin-powered primary candidate won, and her backing may be a mixed blessing in a general election.

Of course, the support of a governor with a job approval rating south of 30 percent is, at best, a mixed blessing.

It was often a very mixed blessing when you were out sailing with him.

Vanessa began to arrive at the conclusion that a husband who added a roving disposition to a settled income was a mixed blessing.

I knew that association with you people would prove to be a mixed blessing.

That he and his brother had originally elected to come into this system along its orbital plane had been a mixed blessing.

If the furniture factory was a mixed blessing, what of the cannery?