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The Gandhis remain the country's only national political brand, proving resilient over decades, but their appeal now seems tarnished, just as India's global luster has also suffered.

Republican leaders said they were looking to Senator John McCain of Arizona, the likely Republican nominee, as a model whose independent reputation appears to allow him to rise above party in a year when the Republican label seems tarnished.

Lately though, the image of the rabbi, Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, 38, has seemed tarnished.

The reddish brown brass seemed tarnished; its candle might have burned out.

Soldiers were disillusioned, the uniform seemed tarnished in a nation that no longer cared, and once proud traditions had given way to progress measured by infamous "body counts".

AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Aug. 6 — When Robert L. Nardelli was sent packing from Home Depot in January with a $210 million exit package and a reputation as an imperious chief executive who had made strategic blunders, he seemed tarnished forever.

Those already in government all seem tarnished, either by having taken part in the defeated Labor government of Ehud Barak or in Prime Minister Sharon's unyieldingly hawkish coalition.

Many New Labour favourites, after all, were elevated beyond their station in 1997 solely because they were young enough not to seem tarnished with the trauma of Labour's past.

His legacy seems forever tarnished.

Now Russia's admirals look tarnished too.

With the newspaper's credibility under siege and its journalists in revolt, Mr. Willes's vision of revolutionizing the business seemed irrevocably tarnished.