Sentence examples for fragile reputation from inspiring English sources

But the damage could be much greater, if the affair shatters Goldman's fragile reputation, weakened as it has been by all the negative publicity of recent months.

As in the children's nursery rhyme, Robert M. Renneisen Jr. has been deputized to put the fragile reputation of Miss America back together again.

If Apple can marshal as much energy and creativity against pollution as did against counterfeiters, then it will live up to the fragile reputation it is building among China's many new fans.

Smith's already fragile reputation as a man of his word and, especially, as a historian was shattered (and Palfrey's project, to promote New England as the birthplace of America, and 1620 as its birthday, greatly advanced).

In the Treasury Department, she protected Secretary Timothy F. Geithner's fragile reputation and tried to spin unpopular policies like the Troubled Asset Relief Program and the A.I.G. bailout, a mostly thankless task that did not go unnoticed in Washington.

Italian Catholic magazine Famiglia Cristiana said the film would damage Pius's already fragile reputation because it was overly apologetic and not sufficiently based on historical documents that defend him.

Even though Martin is not taking his two-game suspension all that seriously -- "I'm going to get laid off," he said -- he understands how fragile his reputation has become and acknowledges the severity of the punishment.

Yet Mr. Coburn's involvement was always seen as fragile given his reputation as an independent thinker with little experience at compromise.

Most literary reputation is fragile and fleeting, and the reputation of poets especially so.

He came to the Giants as a free agent in 2005 with the reputation of being fragile and occasionally misguided.

It all feels, however, a bit airless, as if her reputation were so fragile it must be kept behind glass, lest rough handling break it.