Although the colour of a freshly broken surface of a metallic mineral is often highly diagnostic, this same mineral may become tarnished with time.
In the process his swaggering revelations have unfairly tarnished the reputations of several highly respected and totally credible journalists.
That was one of the reasons Bin Hammam said he decided to run for the presidency; he said Blatter had stayed on too long during a period in which FIFA has been tarnished by corruption charges, match fixing and highly publicized incidents of racism involving fans and players.
Some Republicans in down-ballot races are airing "sexist attacks that use fat-shaming and name-calling in transparently gendered attempts to tarnish a highly qualified female Democratic candidate," write Meredith Kelly, Stephanie Nielsen, Christie Stephenson, Barb Solish and Sacha Haworth ― the women in the DCCC's communications shop ― in a new memo shared with The Huffington Post on Thursday. .
He also acknowledged that the agency's reputation remained tarnished in many black and Latino neighborhoods because of the Justice Department's highly publicized investigation into discrimination by troopers and the state's admission that some officers had engaged in racial profiling for years -- problems that preceded his appointment last year.
4.3 Industry Analysis The retail athletic footwear business has been tarnished in the past two years due in part to the failure of several highly visible large store formats.
Even the painted surface is enigmatic — "highly colored and yet sometimes nearly monochromatic," in Perl's description, "raucous but with the subdued shimmer of slightly tarnished silver".
Dan Dorfman, a highly visible financial journalist whose televised market reports could send a stock soaring — or plummeting — but whose career was tarnished by accusations of insider trading, died on Saturday in Manhattan.
Even Dmitri A. Medvedev, the former president and now prime minister, whose political standing in Russia was tarnished by a swap of offices with Vladimir V. Putin announced in September 2011, subjected himself to a highly unusual spectacle here.
The industry's cachet, which was tarnished during the financial disaster, has been further stained by the lingering economic slowdown and a series of highly publicized industry scandals that have drawn critical attention to the big banks.
