Any more shellackings along the lines of Ulster's humping of Leicester last season will erode reputations at a delicate political moment, regardless of the extra millions they are pledging to lob into the central pot.
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.
He established a sanitarium and unfortunately engaged in some questionable business practices, which eroded the reputation he had fought so hard to regain.
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.
It was virulently attacked in Congress, and Steinbeck's subsequent success in Russia eroded his reputation from the cold war onwards.
His characterization of the deal, which does not include Weider's vitamins and nutrition business, will do nothing to erode that reputation.
The suggestion that he must have dyed his beard for video recordings and was intensely concerned with his image could erode his reputation in the Muslim world as a charismatic and selfless leader.
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.
Philippe de Montebello, the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which receives 14percentt of its $142 million annual operating budget from the city, said such a panel would be "regrettable" and would "erode the reputation of New York City as a global capital of culture".
