Sentence examples for damaging scandal from inspiring English sources

This passivity, combined with the widespread view that the current Tory opposition is spectacularly inadequate, is reflected in polls indicating that Tony Blair's Labor government will retain power in the election in June barring any unspeakably damaging scandal.

Juan Antonio Samaranch, a dominant figure in the modern Olympic movement who over 21 years guided the Games from a period of boycotts and near bankruptcy to an era of unprecedented success and damaging scandal, died on Wednesday in his home city, Barcelona, Spain.

There could not have been a more damaging scandal for the left.

The most damaging scandal occurred in November in Sagkeeng First Nation, about 200 miles northeast of here.

The ruling came just 11 days before Mr. Paterson is to leave office, providing an embarrassing coda to his error-plagued tenure and underscoring how a seemingly trivial ethical misstep could mushroom into a damaging scandal.

NEW DELHI — With the governing Indian National Congress Party reeling from a damaging scandal, Sonia Gandhi, the party's president, called Sunday for party leaders to "confront corruption head on" and create more transparent procedures for awarding government contracts.

TOKYO — Japan's ancient sport of sumo had already fallen on hard times from damaging scandals and declining popularity.

He called on David Cameron to cap political donations and increase state funding of political parties to put an end to damaging scandals and rows.

If the strategy worked, it was short lived: Within three years of Kozlowski's sentencing, Wall Street and the wider global financial system were plunged into a series of systemically damaging scandals that put anything that he had done at Tyco in the shade.

By that time baseball will know whether it has another damaging drug scandal on its hands.

Another damaging political scandal emerged, and Miyazawa, sensing the public outcry, tried to introduce reform legislation in the Diet.