Mitterrand entered his second cohabitation experience with his prestige damaged by his party's recent misfortunes.
As a result, the regime's prestige was damaged, and it forsook further efforts to stage tournaments after 1982.
Its prestige was damaged by the 2015 disaster, in which Riyadh said 769 pilgrims were killed, the highest hajj death toll since a crush in 1990.
America's prestige was damaged, but the dominoes did not fall, and the civil wars in Southeast Asia did not affect the larger history of the Cold War.
The sinking of the Prestige has damaged the sea and our coast, and brought terrible harm to people who make their living from the sea.
If you see the commission as a European government in embryo, it is infuriating when its collegiality is threatened by expansion to 27 members, and its prestige is damaged by national lobbying.Today, each EU country has one commissioner, which is why some new ones have been given what one Eurocrat calls "largely fictitious" portfolios (such as Mr Orban's).
But even for the underrepresented candidates who remain in the running, the importance of undergraduate prestige can damage their chances.
Not only is abolition still avoided by politicians fearful of soft on crime rhetoric but a Court whose prestige was damaged by repudiation of its 1972 effort will be hesitant to move precipitously.
It gave al-Qaida a new lease of life and a fresh platform for attacks on Americans, as well as damaging US prestige throughout the Middle East and much of the rest of the world.
These included the unraveling of the union with Syria in 1961, which dissolved his United Arab Republic (UAR), damaging his prestige.
That will mean settling for an outcome in Iraq that, however we spin it, will look a lot like defeat -- and the nation's prestige will be damaged by that outcome.
