Sentence examples for lost its image from inspiring English sources

"Many people felt that the city had lost its image and significance as the location for major corporations," Mr. Kulik said at the time.

It took until 1994 for it to lose its image as God's waiting room.

With the nation's first openly gay district attorney, a majority of Democrats on the city council and this week's invasion by the Air America liberal talk radio network, San Diego is in danger of losing its image as a bastion of West Coast conservatism.

These are the types of fundamentalist groups and states to which Israel is losing its image and standing.

At the hearing, Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont and the committee's chairman, said the F.B.I. had lost its elite image among law enforcement agencies.

Lost its unbeatable image against the Serb.

It is the nature of a sport that lost its squeaky-clean image long ago.

In just a few years, Seoul has lost its gritty-city image and the country's television shows, movies and fashion have become hits throughout Asia.

Wal-Mart lost its "just folks" image much later than I expected.

Americans have had a touching faith in higher education; it's losing its good image with the public".

The introduction to a special issue of Politique africaine on 'Figures of success and political imaginaries' opens by stating that the figure of the functionary – salaried, state-employed and formally educated – has lost its value as an image of modern, urbane, social and material achievement (Banégas and Warnier 2001; see also Nyamnjoh 2005).