Sentence examples for attempt to defame from inspiring English sources

A shaken Mr. Davis screamed that he had been a faithful father and that the question was an orchestrated attempt to defame his family.

"This had been an unprecedented attempt to defame me through inaccurate reports, insinuations and twisting of the facts to criminalize me," Mr. Kohl told the parliamentary committee.

In a counter-protest, supporters of the prime minister, Narendra Modi, chanted nationalist slogans and said handing back the awards was merely an attempt to defame the government.

This week, Somali officials from Puntland, a pirate haven in northern Somalia, denied the allegations that they were collaborating with pirates and called the report "a feeble attempt to defame" the Puntland president.

A fortnight ago, the justice minister, Judith Collins, was forced to step down in the wake of the book's allegations that she was connected with an attempt to defame the head of the Serious Fraud Office.

There was raucous applause and cries of "Yessir!" Baraka began reading: "The recent dishonest, consciously distorted, and insulting non-interpretation of my poem by the Anti-Defamation League is fundamentally an attempt to defame me and, with that, an attempt to repress and stigmatize independent thinkers everywhere".

I cannot and will not tolerate attempts to defame my commitment and loyalty to Ireland.

Pigott had attempted to defame the Irish political leader Charles Stewart Parnell by forging letters implicating him in the high-profile stabbings known as the Phoenix Park murders.

People may laugh at clumsy attempts to defame dissidents, he argued in a recent column, just as people laugh at overzealous efforts to hunt out Brotherhood "symbols" in schoolbooks or in an advertisement featuring finger-puppets.

Stephen Kelly hit back at Giovanni Trapattoni after the Republic of Ireland manager questioned his commitment to the national team, the player saying he "would not tolerate attempts to defame my loyalty".

(The Chinese embassy has reacted with umbrage — "Any attempts to defame China with fabricated allegations will prove futile," a spokesman said — though I'm not clear if the defamation is the suggestion of espionage or the suggestion of such a ham-fisted attempt at it).