His informant, whom he describes as "a friend...in a position to have the information", is thought likely to be a Conservative political operator eager to besmirch Mr Martin and his government with biased reports of the hearings.However, Captain Ed is far from the only source reporting on the closed-door proceedings; he is simply the only one publishing the details.
Most of it is still in a position to kill and besmirch things; but it is also subject to further evaporation and dispersal.Of the oil that dispersed, two-thirds did so naturally, a third did so as a result of the use of chemicals designed to aid the process.
Women are still controlled by their menfolk, since perceived transgressions can besmirch a family's reputation.
The Free Syrian Army, a group of rebel fighters, said that government forces, hoping to besmirch the opposition, were responsible.
John Adams, who was trying to persuade the Dutch to recognise the fledging republic, worried that Washington's actions would besmirch its reputation.
So why the drama, Obama?The suspicion is that Mr Obama wants to blunt Mr Netanyahu's criticism of an Iran deal, or to besmirch him as a racist, so as to stop wavering Democrats from joining the many who cheered Mr Netanyahu in Congress when he denounced the looming agreement as "a very bad deal .Mr Netanyahu is wrong to reject any plausible deal with Iran.
The moral of this book, mercifully free of psychological analysis, is that the human appetite for saucy tales will never go away; and that even if Mr Clinton were pure as snow, some tittle-tattle would be found to besmirch him.
In part, that was because the Republicans who were out to besmirch John Kerry were so good at it that they more than compensated for their relative penury.
His British captors sought to besmirch further his name by circulating diaries in which he detailed homosexual encounters with young men on several continents.The strongest passages in the book are those in which the author skilfully interweaves scenes in Pentonville prison with details of Casement's earlier life to trace the evolution of Casement's consciousness.
As anyone who Googles his surname will discover (don't let your children try), many gay Americans abhor him and will resort to any revolting prank to besmirch his name.They have reason.
The movement seems designed both to weaken the president, who has called for the lifting of the ban on communism, and to besmirch the motives of those calling for faster and more radical democratic change.
