A Fatah parliamentarian from the West Bank city of Nablus, Najat Abu Baker, eroded his reputation for financial propriety by accusing his government of gross corruption and of drowning the PA in debt.
Then Tate Modern opened and overnight, neither Saatchi nor his gallery seemed to matter much: even before that, his attempts to identify a second wave of young British artists in his New Neurotic Realist shows eroded his reputation for perceptiveness.
Mr. McInturff noted that Katrina, by eroding Mr. Bush's reputation for competence, had deeper long-term ramifications for his presidency than were apparent in the fall of 2005.
A strike shut PAL for two weeks in late 1998, eroding its already-poor reputation for service.
And some analysts worry that the administration's increased engagement could erode the F.D.A.'s reputation for regulatory thoroughness and integrity.
For media analysts, coverage of the Syrian war has seriously eroded the reputations of channels like Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya.
Here's a reminder of the key things we have discovered: Former chief executive Sir Terry Leahy told the BBC that Tesco allowed the trust of its millions of customers to be "eroded", that it lost its reputation for having low prices and that there was a "failure" of leadership under Philip Clarke.
In that case, a need for new scapegoats in the UK could further erode its reputation, Fabian Zuleeg, head of the European Policy Centre, believes.
Many researchers think so and take as examples the eroding corporate reputation, a regulatory environment that is harsher than ever, and the request for cheaper drugs from patient organizations and authorities.
Sharp, who has a personal fortune estimated at £100m, may have been at home in such company but his presence will have done nothing to assuage concerns in Westminster that his political interests could erode the Bank's prized reputation for independence from party politics.
