Sentence examples for grim reputation from inspiring English sources

The hospital has a grim reputation.

Its spies have a grim reputation for torture.

But he added that Russia's grim reputation among American investors would keep many away for now.

The flats acquired a grim reputation, and in 1977 a fire claimed the life of a 12-year-old boy.

All of this has been shaking up the grim reputation of places whose names -- Siberia and Manchuria -- in the past were synonymous with exiles, prisoners and endless swamps.

And Italy's grim reputation as a country which either has had (or has) crooked leaders or a biased judiciary would suffer still more.

Cyprus, which had modelled itself as an offshore financial services centre for lack of any other resources, now faces a grim future with its reputation in tatters and its economy deep in recession.

Many of these songs will be narcocorridos, stories of bandits and outlaws updated to the age of drug cartels and AK-47s, and known to some, because of their grim authenticity and bad reputation, as "the rap of modern Mexico".

It was a grim joke against his reputation for impracticality, kindly allowing those who wanted to believe it that he had ingested the poison by mistake.

In the 16th century, the Tower acquired an enduring reputation as a grim, forbidding prison.

They were often grim, seedy places with reputations for casual violence, low-level gangsterism, carpeted dancefloors and playboy promoters wearing suits at the dance.