Sentence examples for reputation is shot from inspiring English sources

Even if Pistorius avoids the mandatory life sentence for premeditated murder, even if somehow he were to recover his freedom, his reputation is shot and he is condemned to eke out the rest of his days as a sad shadow of the heroic, world famous figure he had struggled so valiantly to become.

Premise A: Ben Bernanke's reputation is shot.

Eventually once their reputation is shot enough, they stop winning regular victories and they start getting demoralized, people will peel off just from fatigue.

His reputation is shot, his career over, and his legacy forever tarnished.

*"Wake Up Little Susie" recorded by The Everly Brothers, reached number one on the Billboard  Pop chart, despite having been banned from Boston radio-stations for lyrics about elaborating "our reputation is shot" because the narrator and his date slept through a drive-through movie date and missed their curfew by six hours.

And if she hears how you cheated on your ex-girlfriend, your reputation is shot and you'll have to rebuild it.

"My reputation was shot down in the clumps long ago.

"Is that such a good idea?" countered Cindy.… "Her reputation will be shot for the next four years".

His reputation would be shot if he splashed the cash and there's not much of that available.

In any legal sense, Clemens remains innocent of breaking any laws, but he sounded mournfully aware that his reputation may be shot by these charges.

'Her reputation will be shot for the next four years.' " Jackie listens, "mute in her bloody dress," as Cindy, now playing the mean girl, "prevailed over the group: 'She's gonna be the girl who cried "rape," and we'll never be allowed into any frat party again.' " Not only is Cindy portrayed as the instigator of Jackie's abandonment; her cruelty is given a particular social and sexual character.