Sentence examples for longtime reputation from inspiring English sources

The PC business did well at first, thanks in part to IBM's longtime reputation for quality.

Noting the country's pride in Swissair's longtime reputation for sterling service and reliability, Mr. Villiger said, "this crisis has caused huge damage".

Birmingham's longtime reputation was as an industrial overachiever, neither pretty nor a tourist destination, a city dominated by concrete monoliths built after World War II.

However, he overcame his longtime reputation of faltering in the postseason by batting.365 with six home runs and 18 RBIs during the play-offs, and the Yankees went on to win the 2009 World Series.

And in a neighborhood with a large gay population and a longtime reputation for broadmindedness about sex and drugs, that is a serious obstacle to any sort of crackdown.

The paradox is that the Israeli opposition leader Arik Sharon's longtime reputation for fierceness would enable the Likud leader to enforce separation, control military escalation and stop that war process.

And yet there they were on Monday, sent home in the first round by a longtime rival with a reputation for postseason failure.

In 1884 the Democrats sought a presidential candidate who would contrast sharply with Republican nominee James G. Blaine, a longtime Washington insider whose reputation for dishonesty and financial impropriety prompted the Republican Mugwump faction to bolt their party.

When it was time to name a new chief in 1998, Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr. opted for Leonard Gallo, a longtime officer with a reputation as a hard-liner who had fallen out of favor in New Haven when the city's first black mayor, John Daniels, tried to repair relations with the black community.

A little like English history buffs who blame Shakespeare for blackening the reputation of Richard III, longtime members of the Roman Historical Society feel that Tacitus and others grossly misjudged Nero.

In case you missed them, "back in June, the Corn Refiners Association embarked on what the Wall Street Journal described as an 18-month, $20-30 million camillionto "rehabilitate the reputation of the longtime sweetener".