Sentence examples for sought to damage from inspiring English sources

Early in the campaign her team also complained that rivals had sought to damage her by highlighting the fact that the shadow care minister did not have children.

B3 Louima on the Stand Abner Louima was cross-examined by defense lawyers who sought to damage his credibility by exposing inconsistencies in testimony about his brutalization by the police.

Through raiding, the Confederacy sought to damage the United States economy, drive up maritime insurance rates for American ships and otherwise increase domestic economic and political pressure on the Union's government to end its war effort.

IF China or Iran threatened our national credit rating and tried to drive up our interest rates, or if they sought to damage our education system, we would erupt in outrage.

Joel Smith, activities officer at Manchester student union, told the Mancunion: "We strongly condemn this journalistic approach which sought to damage the integrity of both our union and the Mancunion.

"So I thought that framing a festival with two works that so greatly influenced Wagner, and by composers whose reputations he explicitly sought to damage and destroy, might be a revealing way of approaching Wagner, whose later account of himself is often misleading and suspect.

Mr. All suggests, however, that others seeking to damage Mr. McCain saw an opportunity.

Grayling accused his critics of "wilfully stoking up misconceptions", seeking to damage "those whose offending behaviour it is that we are trying to stop".

I find it dismaying that he is prayed in aid by those who oppose the action and seek to damage the government and the prime minister.

"A great wave of rumors and attacks is currently seeking to damage the image of Canal Plus Group and put its future in doubt," he wrote.

A senior Labour source said that the Tories and the SNP were seeking to damage Labour, regardless of the wider consequences.