Sentence examples for off the reputation from inspiring English sources

Long a divisive figure, among her supporters she has managed to cast off the reputation of being Ukraine's Gas Princess, a title bestowed upon her in the 1990s when she profited handsomely from the country's chaotic post-Soviet economy.

Win it and this Arsenal team will at last graduate from pretenders to victors, cast off the reputation as bottlers and seem well primed to use their post-Emirates-building booty money to add judicious reinforcements and embark on a new period of glory for the Gunners and ultimate vindication for Wenger.

A millionaire former oil trader who once worked for a notorious American businessman Marc Rich (who was prosecuted for tax fraud and pardoned by Bill Clinton on his last night in the White House) Mr Duncan has never quite managed to throw off the reputation for - as he put it to the Times today - being " a bit hot to handle".

Frog laughed off the reputation of the much-feared cabal.

In hustling to get recipients, Olive View will have to shake off the reputation that county hospitals are for the poor and desperate, Bagley said.

But the latest deficit gridlock in Washington may have taken some of the luster off the reputation of the world's largest economy and its currency.

Perhaps some listeners are put off by the reputation of "Wozzeck" as an "atonal" score, with that word's connotations of gnashing dissonance and angst.

The first phase of modernisation shook off the Tories' reputation as the nasty party.

"It's difficult for this orchestra to shake off the bad reputation that it ended up having in the '80s," she said.

Well, perhaps best gloss over that, except to say Kim shook off the trashy reputation when she graced the cover of American Vogue earlier this year and firmly established the high-end credentials of the Kardashian Inc business empire.

Tory troubles mounted with scandals in local governments, particularly in Westminster in 1994, and thereafter Major was seemingly unable to shake off the growing reputation of his government not only for economic mismanagement but also for corruption and moral hypocrisy.