One example was an order to seek out damaging material about Conrad Black, owner of the Telegraph titles, who has been in dispute with Desmond for months about their joint printing operation.
The basement membrane is a thin sheet outside some tissues, on which a single layer of cells line up like tiles, all facing one direction to support the tissue's architecture and to provide a barrier that keeps out damaging material.
At issue are unequivocal statements Mr. Olson made to the committee that he had no connection with a project at the American Spectator magazine to dig up damaging material about Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
One theory, propounded in the opposition research dossier put together by a former British spy named Christopher Steele, is that the Russian government collected damaging material about Trump — including a sex tape — during his business trips to the country.
He paid a single consultant $367,000 to cultivate support from labor unions, and $200,000 to a lawyer to hire a private investigator, who in turn dug up damaging material about Mr. Florio.
Downer, in an interview with The Australian newspaper last year, claimed Papadopoulos had told him Russia might use "damaging" material they had on Trump presidential rival Hillary Clinton in the lead-up to the election.
Vice President Pence asserted in an interview broadcast Friday that President Trump's enthusiastic reaction to WikiLeaks's releases of damaging material on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential race did not amount to an endorsement of the organization.
It gave the facts of Crockett's early life in a credible fashion, but also recycled damaging material from hostile newspapers and added fabulous tales of him grinning raccoons out of trees and riding streaks of lightning across the sky.
Op.cit., supra, note 4, at 82. 'This is not a case of pre-trial publicity of damaging material, tending to indicate the guilt of a defendant, dug up by the initiative and private enterprise of newspapers.
The Sun's decision to publish footage of the Queen at six or seven years old performing a Nazi salute, held in the royal archives and hitherto unavailable for public viewing, has triggered concerns that the palace has for years sought to suppress the release of damaging material confirming the links between leading royals and the Third Reich.
It is also likely that, in October, Comey assumed that Clinton would win, and he feared the wrath of Republicans in Congress if it turned out that the F.B.I. had got its hands on damaging material about her before the election and failed to disclose it.
