The Hinkley Point project was in large part about borrowing our reputation – showing that we trusted the China General Nuclear Power Corporation not only to cooperate on the EDF plant, but more importantly to design and build its own reactors at Bradwell in Essex, with a view to further overseas deals.
Thurber's reputation, to borrow a metaphor from Thurber, has not so much crumbled away as just been turned off.
But he said that the recent push for radical overhauls of nations that borrow money has undermined the fund's reputation and strained its competence.
But by keeping a positive outlook at least I salvaged my reputation with the bankers and could borrow again another day.
Also, a government has the benefit of being trusted because of the reputation of the whole country, so it can borrow more than it owes.
But since consumers have a variety of choices, they can easily borrow from another company if they feel uneasy about a lender's reputation.
Despite their reputation for fiscal conservatism, deficits — basically the amount of money the government has to borrow to cover the cost of the services it provides — have tended to grow under recent Republican administrations.
Even though flatboats had become essentially obsolete by that time, Bingham nonetheless saw his reputation soar when The Jolly Flatboatmen became the first piece of American art that, to borrow from today's social media lingo, "went viral".
There's no shortage of good ideas on Facebook for boosting your online business reputation -- and the best part is almost none of them are copyrighted, so you can borrow them freely.
Although the Italian government suffers from a reputation for frivolous spending and dysfunctional politics, Italian households are the least likely in the euro zone to borrow money.
They also found that the greater the borrower's reputation, the greater the borrowing rate and the lower the loan interest rate.
