But if the allegations are proved true, Mr. Ibrahim said, it could greatly damage Mr. Anwar's standing.
What the barrister told the court was: "The consequences of conviction - irrespective of penalty - would greatly damage Mr Bogdanov in his personal and professional life".
Putin has managed to destabilise every former Soviet republic and greatly damage the strategic credibility of the west – of which Nato is a central pillar.
But Mr Davies said this "could greatly damage the BBC" and would allow Tony Blair's then director of communications, Alastair Campbell, to "drive a wedge between governors and the executive".
But all estimates suggest that reunification by absorption would greatly damage South Korea's rebounding economy and would pose a far heavier financial burden than the one West Germany bore from its union with East Germany in 1990.
They won't do it because such greedy and lumpen tactics would greatly damage their already-atrophied public standing and – quite probably – their wives would kick them out of bed if they did.
