1.   Considering our checkered pasts with moving vehicles, my friends and I often wonder how we survived.

2.   Some with checkered pasts acknowledged the difficulty of starting anew.

3.   Those teams not blessed with a Favre are either playing veterans with checkered pasts or rushing youngsters.

4.   Both Fletcher and Purcell hammered Mitchell, accusing him of irregularities in awarding contracts for public works projects and complaining that he favored foreign investors with checkered pasts.