Sentence examples for repute from inspiring English sources

Reputation risk, incidentally, is more-or-less ignored by Basel 2.The repute and trustworthiness of financial institutions is perhaps the biggest uncertainty in today's financial markets.

Brand is not registered to vote, but an endorsement by the comedian with his 9.5 million Twitter followers could persuade some younger voters to go to polling stations and convince sceptics that Miliband is not the cautious conventional Westminster politician of repute.

It's simpler, starker and focuses on a high-street institution – what could be more satisfying than a tale of hubris at one Britain's last remaining world-leading companies, especially if it allows a moist recollection of former Tesco boss Terry Leahy, one of the country's dwindling number of business people of international repute.

As recent events demonstrate, keeping the precious BBC intact as a broadcaster of scale, scope and repute is not quite as easy as it looks.

His wealth was so vast, by repute, that no one could guess it.

In America, Johns Hopkins is not merely a highly rated university based in Baltimore, but its medical arm also runs a hospital of high repute.

So began the modern era of cricket.In the same year a bowler of some repute called John Wisden gathered some statistics, about both cricket and unrelated topics, such as the English civil war, and published them in an almanac.

A short drive from Cawston, in the grounds of a splendid Jacobean mansion, Blickling Hall, by repute the most haunted house in Britain, 400-year-old oaks are dead and dying.

Yet, though widely known as a doctor of some repute working for the World Health Organisation, he had not checked the date on the pills: they were too old to kill him and he survived.

George McCoy, author of McCoy's Guide to Adult Services, the definitive guide to British houses of ill repute, says raids in Brighton, Manchester and Leicester signal a new, tougher approach.The trials of "Barry", a parlour boss in Oldham, are typical.

Should the orator be a small child, a man of ill-repute, or one supposed to be hostile to the audience or should the question be devoid of interest for the audience, there is little chance that the orator will be allowed to speak or that he will be listened to.