The reputations of Deutsche Post and Deutsche Bank will both sustain temporary damage from the affair, according to analysts.
Evidence first disclosed by The New York Times in 2009 showed that Mr. Ensign, after having an affair with Mr. Hampton's wife, Cynthia, arranged tens of thousands of dollars in lobbying contracts for Mr. Hampton through Nevada political allies as a means of finding income for the aggrieved aide and containing the damage from the affair.
Both the Justice Department and the Senate ethics committee are investigating allegations first raised in The New York Times last October that Mr. Ensign got lobbying work for the aide, Douglas Hampton, and intervened on behalf of his clients in an effort to contain the damage from his affair with Mr. Hampton's wife.
Like the reference to "dark forces at work" and the expression of his initial belief that the damage from the affair was "controllable", his comparison of the appearance of Sky Sports footage on YouTube with the phone-hacking allegations concerning the News of the World appeared to issue from the mind of a man with a very uncertain understanding of the world outside his own privileged bubble.
"The damage from the affair was very great," writes Prof Jeffery.
The damage from the Yukos affair could flow both ways.
One scenario to control damage from the Khashoggi affair, two former Western officials suggested, could include Mohammed agreeing to accept temporary power-sharing with a trusted relative.
He accused Mr Gomery of bias in choosing to believe the testimony of Mr Guité, and said he would seek judicial review of the report.The lasting damage from this sorry affair is to Liberal support in Quebec.
She should have been preceded by a video message from Gordon Brown; but in Labour's first direct collateral damage from the Gillian Duffy affair, he was rushing back to Rochdale to apologise to the pensioner at the time he'd been scheduled to make the recording.
They both entered this relationship damaged from previous love affairs and tried to solidify their marriage by creating a family together.
"There is no doubt that the European project has suffered structural damage from this," said Jacob Kirkegaard, a research fellow in European affairs and structural reform at the Peterson Institute for International Economics here.
