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Examples of tarnish


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Even before the quake, the mass media had tarnished the image of incorporated public-interest corporations.
We are also considering a system of civil fines for behaviour that, although not criminal, nevertheless tarnishes the market's reputation.
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I never suggested that the general public service was tarnished.
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The black blight of racial discrimination has tarnished most of my lifetime.
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We are even more critical of them for giving away the family silver, even if on this occasion it is somewhat tarnished.
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Looking back on history, it is interesting to note that he was never tarnished with the label of appeasement.
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The type of scandals that been have allowed to go on and have not been stopped by self-regulation have tarnished that reputation.
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The picture of the poor, bright children flocking to the assisted places, is going to be somewhat tarnished in this regard.
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In the domestic sector, the industry's reputation is tarnished by the often outrageous activities of cowboy builders.
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One clear result will be that the good name of this country will be further tarnished.
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Regrettably, the companies that have been victims of these activities remain silent for fear of tarnishing their image.
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No matter who is implicated, or whose reputation may be tarnished in the meantime, we want to get at the truth, for this important reason.
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The image, which ought to be that of a responsible business or profession, is tarnished by the irresponsible action of a dishonest minority.
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They complain that it has tarnished the image of the whole profession.
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Whatever his motives, is not the cherished impression of the independence of his high office tarnished?
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Perhaps many of our high hopes will be slightly tarnished.
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The pity is that it is tarnished by its cynical timing and its opportunistic intentions.
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The truth is that the university image, to use the popular word, has become tarnished over the past few years.
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Tribute has been paid to it, but it has been tarnished in his latter days.
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I am also a consultant to an advertising agency and am undoubtedly tarnished with the advertising brush.
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Tax fraud tarnishes the entire economy, and has serious implications for national budgets, as it reduces capacity to incur expenditure and undertake investment.
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I would add that the great majority of supporters do not wish to be tarnished with the reputation of being hooligans.
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The very steel of their eyes grew tarnished at the prospect.
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Does not that rather glossy communiqué now look a bit tarnished?
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The administration is tarnished by error, waste and fraud, which cost the taxpayer hundreds of millions of pounds a year.
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The third reason why it must be right is that the recollection of a witness of events is inevitably tarnished by the passing of time.
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Should it be upheld, the reputation of the commission would be tarnished by the slur of double standards.
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We have them—brilliant men, not tarnished as discredited politicians, of high moral standing in their countries and ardently, passionately, patriotically devoted to our cause.
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I have no intention of allowing my 24 years' experience in local government to be tarnished by such proposals.
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If children are accustomed from their earliest years to a tarnished, tired environment, that will contribute to a tarnished, tired outlook.
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I am hopeful and optimistic that they will live through the present situation without being tarnished.
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Is he concerned that his previously clean-shaven image is being severely tarnished?
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They do not like to be tarnished with things like this happening, but they are doing it under orders from above.
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Will he not take the present opportunity of exposing those jewels to the open air, or is he afraid of tarnishing them?
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However, the report remains tarnished with a worrying failing.
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The very first time that we have a meat scare, the new agency's reputation will be tarnished, possibly irrevocably.
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I am sorry that the discussion of this serious subject has been somewhat tarnished by ridiculous allegations about procedural issues.
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A great many legal luminaries pass into the limbo of lost things and become entirely tarnished—old barnacles which recede into the past.
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The reputation of the police has perhaps been tarnished as a result of their response to what, in their book, might be more moderate crimes.
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We were told that the public service is tarnished because of this offence which took place a year and a half ago.
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They must not be tarnished by inadequate procedures.
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However, that generosity has been tarnished by the exclusion of such a small number of deserving cases.
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The true vocation of science, the fun of finding out, became tarnished.
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All too often, the image of landlords is tarnished by the small minority of unscrupulous landlords who seek to exploit.
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Many of the feathers have been torn out, and a great deal of the rest of the measure is tarnished.
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Indeed, it probably tarnishes sport more than any other problem it encounters.
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Indeed, the use of drugs probably tarnishes sport more than any other problem.
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Football supporters do not deserve to have their reputation tarnished by the activities of a small minority, and no one should be deterred by violent people from attending football matches.
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Their reputation has been irreparably tarnished.
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If they enter the service with that attitude there will be no danger of the magnificent name which the police forces now rightly enjoy being tarnished in any way.
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Only its surface is tarnished.
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There has been too little investment, policies of expediency, policies tarnished by dogma, and too little response to what has always been the support of our institutional lives — consensus.
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Alter that freedom, manacle that freedom by any kind of governmental control and the treasure, the jewel that we possess, will become tarnished in no time at all.
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I also agree with his remarks about how the law-abiding soccer supporter is tarnished, most unfairly, with the reputation that the hooligans have given to the game.
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Therefore, the cup is tarnished.
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More widely, if this happens with any degree of frequency at all it tarnishes the image of the auctioneering profession and the market which it serves, wherever that may be.
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The tragedy is that their reputation and the honourable traditions of local government are being tarnished by the activities of a minority of equally dedicated but misdirected people.
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I am pleased to have this opportunity to say publicly that there is nothing of any kind known against that man which tarnishes his character in any way.
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The fact is that that experience tarnished the reputation of teachers, particularly with the parents of children who suffered the reduction of their life chances as a result.
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I do not want to see this tarnished or diminished by any apparent failure on our part to do those things that our consciences should determine that we do.
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Buildings rather tarnished by present occupants.
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We cannot speak of special hospitals and not be mindful of the recurrent scandals over many decades which have tarnished their reputation and triggered a succession of official inquiries.
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To the extent that we do not achieve it, their image and reputation is tarnished, because they are regarded as the "head man" of the legal system.
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Tragic indeed would it be if the splendid prospect of improving the material conditions of our people was tarnished by the means adopted to bring that about.
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To-day the word is sadly tarnished.
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We should remember that we in our turn must so conduct ourselves that we may hand down to those who come after us traditions not tarnished but, if possible, embellished.
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The whole service was tarnished.
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They also do a lot of damage to the licensed cab trade, whose well-earned reputation for integrity and reliability is most unfairly tarnished by the activities of this grasping minority.
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How do we treat real independents, and how do we treat independents whose independence is tarnished by having a party political label attached to and qualifying it?
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Our proud tradition has been tragically tarnished.
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If they did so, their reputation would at least be less tarnished in the minds of many with a progressive outlook on life than it is.
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One must accept the fact that the goods and services from the area would be tarnished and that it would take many years to get over that psychological hurdle.
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I make that point because it illustrates that pragmatic decisions have had to be made from the start which have tarnished the "white as driven snow" theory.
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The magnet of tourism will be very tarnished if we allow these buildings, which many people come many thousands of miles to see, to fall into a state of disrepair.
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The suppression of free expression and of political opposition tarnishes the country's reputation abroad.
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He said his honor would be tarnished and that he would only be a spectator in the affair.
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The whole exterior was covered with a coat of clear varnish to prevent tarnishing.
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However, their image of the city is quickly tarnished when they are robbed of their savings.
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His image was subsequently tarnished, and he lost a reelection bid.
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Morales denied giving the police the order to attack the protesters, but the event tarnished his approval ratings.
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Under trademark law, dilution occurs either when unauthorized use of a mark blurs the distinctive nature of the mark or tarnishes it.
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Neptunium metal is silvery and tarnishes when exposed to air.
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There is also a large body of opinion which suggests his activities in the 1980s tarnished his image badly.
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Speculum also had the unfortunate property of tarnishing in open air with a sensitivity to humidity, requiring constant re-polishing to maintain its usefulness.
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Ratios with up to 45% tin were used for resistance to tarnishing.
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However, it tarnishes quickly when exposed to air and readily dissolves in concentrated hydrochloric, hydroiodic and perchloric acids as well as others.
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In his view, this produced better results because the companies wished to avoid their respectability being tarnished.
Although that image is tarnished now, the damage to public confidence in, and support for, state pensions may be hard to reverse.
Moreover, a combination of ineptness and outright corruption tarnished relief efforts across the states.
However, in the reader's critical distance from the novel and its events, his sympathy is tarnished by his rational upbringing.
The president justifies a greater role for himself by tarnishing the legitimacy and representative nature of the legislative branch as a competitor for power.
As a result, auditors themselves may be held liable facing civil lawsuits tarnishing their reputation and causing financial distress.
The reputation of the metropolitan police who took the final decision to disperse the meeting was tarnished by this episode.
In his interviews, the belief that self-interests tarnished the purity of the struggle is strong.
The team's unbeaten start to the 1948-49 season was tarnished by reports of poor and unfair play.
The idiosyncratic, eclectic, out-of-date focus tarnishes a work that fails to be either a good reference book or a stirring survey of contemporary research.
We have to be careful concerning anything which tarnishes the nation.
Such pronouncements, implicit and explicit, made by the judiciary, tarnish the honour of the family rather than redeem it.
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