Sentence examples for potentially tarnishing from inspiring English sources

Those with the power to vote players into the Baseball Hall of Fame have been wary of potentially tarnishing the institution with inductees linked to performance-enhancing drugs.

The disaster has raised questions about corruption and government efficiency, potentially tarnishing the government led by Xi Jinping, who has made those two issues a hallmark of his administration.

BAGHDAD — Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq threatened on Wednesday to abandon an American-backed power-sharing government created a year ago, throwing a fragile democracy into further turmoil just after the departure of American troops and potentially tarnishing what has been cast as a major foreign policy achievement for President Obama.

Second, the blame for misconduct falls on the entire office, rather than on the sole offending prosecutor, potentially tarnishing the reputations of all the attorneys at that office.

The proprietary chip makes it more difficult for accessory makers to produce cheap knockoff products that are compatible with Lightning, which could potentially tarnish the iPhone brand.

He added that the higher-end brands didn't feel like the app potentially tarnished their image of exclusivity.

The corporation's vice president for corporate affairs, Richard Douglas, had acted in the scheme in such a manner that potentially could have caused economic harm to the public relations firm (tarnishing its reputation by engaging Lake in illegal activity) – he and Lake had illegally funneled contributions to a congressional candidate, Espy's brother.

If you see women as men's property, you don't want to have them tarnished, besmirched, potentially ruined, by the touch of another.

The pending financial reform bill in the Senate may not accomplish President Barack Obama's goal of reforming the unregulated derivatives market, potentially wasting the nation's best opportunity to fix a broken financial system and tarnishing the legacy of those claiming to clean up the markets.

"Pakistan's government is tarnishing the country's well-deserved reputation for hospitality toward refugees by tolerating the punitive and potentially unlawful coercive repatriation of Afghan refugees," said HRW's deputy Asia director, Phelim Kine.

But that risks tarnishing its brand.