"hurt the trust" is a valid and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to express that a person or action has damaged the trust between two or more people. For example, "The betrayal of his secret hurt the trust between the two friends."
If they don't pay great attention to this, it will eventually hurt the customers' trust".
I would give anything if she never had to know about men who hit, or creeps who lurked behind bushes, or adults who hurt the children who trusted them.
It did not hurt that the trust hired Adrian Benepe, who recently stepped down as the New York City parks commissioner.
"There's a culture of conflicts of interest that is extremely destabilizing and hurts the public trust," said Sharkey, whose union is in contract negotiations with CPS.
Volkswagen's claims that its diesel vehicles were more fuel efficient than they actually were "really hurt the ability of customers to trust the VW brand and consequently the dealers' ability to sell those cars," said Brian Maas, president of the California New Car Dealers Assn., which represents more than 1,300 franchised new car and truck dealerships including 66 VW dealers.
As expected, trust is the foundation of a relationship, and lack of trust is what hurt the political parties in the survey, Ms. Pines said.
If someone comes along and uses deception to shatter that trust, she has hurt the very cause of a free flow of public information that she claims she wants to assist".
Nevertheless, progressive advocates of social insurance programs have long worried that diverting money from the Social Security trust fund would hurt the program by weakening the connection workers feel between their contributions and their eventual payback.
As such, information fraud can hurt the effectiveness of intelligent systems, impair interaction trust in the cyber world, and result in financial losses.
"The abuse of the public trust by the few will hurt the many," Dr. Rosen said.
