Sentence examples for of being discredited from inspiring English sources

It's the fear of being discredited.

They live under constant financial threat, literally and symbolically in fear of being "discredited".

The prospect of being discredited, "reduced to a second-rate power," was what drove the war forward.

Already, the Kosovo Albanians' moderate leader, Ibrahim Rugova, looks in danger of being discredited as a western toady because he agreed to a brief, abortive round of talks with Mr Milosevic.

They live under constant financial threat, literally and symbolically in fear of being "discredited". From Kilroy to the trapped Romantics (Lord Byron, Proust's Baron de Charlus, Don Quixote, Dumas's Marguerite Gautier), the characters inhabit a freakish world, warped by desperation and pitched between desire and retreat.

During our first coffee date I found myself playing devil's advocate, projecting my own fear of being discredited for embracing vision boards, which had always brought to mind a particular brand of new ageism that left me feeling like a space cadet by association.

He saw his cause, the cause of Palestine, being discredited by terror.

This suffering takes the form of restricted lives, social isolation, being discredited and becoming a burden to others (Charmaz, 1983).

Many of the Ayyubid emirs of Syria were discredited by Qutuz for collaborating with the Mongols, but since al-Ashraf Musa defected to the Mamluks at Ain Jalut, he was allowed to continue his rule over Homs.

However, the various relics of it were discredited by the end of the 18th century.

Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea, conde de Aranda, a friend of France, was discredited by the excesses of the Revolution (1792).