Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz dropped any pretense of presenting cases for their own candidacies, or contesting each other's, and focussed instead on discrediting Trump.
"Hopefully, Clegg will use the debates to flesh out his ideas for EU reform in greater detail instead of repeating discredited claims about 3 million jobs being lost in the event of an exit," says Pawel Swidlicki on the Lib Dem voice blog.
It is a way of discrediting women.
Khan's on-camera confrontation of her abusive ex presents an alternative outcome where instead of denying or discrediting his victim, an abuser listens to a full accounting of the damage he caused.
In that case, both the Attorney General and the Deputy AG resigned instead of helping Nixon discredit the investigation that would eventually lead to his resignation.
And instead of ignoring opinions or discrediting their worth, we should use them to learn from each other's messed up ideas and ways of thinking.
Instead, while discredited Israeli and Palestinian time-servers jockey for position, their two peoples slide ever deeper into a generalised loathing of each other.
Instead of gathering Somalia's discredited politicians and promising them more help, Cameron should support what already functions well in Somalia: the vibrant middle class and Somaliland.
Soon, what had been his chief theory was discredited: instead of rising, the rate of juvenile crime dropped by more than half.
Because there are multiple candidates instead of just two, mudslinging, which discredits the slinger as well as the spattered, is riskier; and, because the range of views on offer is wider, debate is livelier.
Knight, confronted with mounting evidence of his ill-tempered handiwork after the Neil Reed hand-on-throat allegations surfaced, instead chose to discredit Sperber as a critic and an author.
