Sentence examples for tarnish the state from inspiring English sources

They also said the borrowing would further tarnish the state's bond rating.

But opponents argued a casino would eat up tourist money, tarnish the state's family-friendly image and increase crime.

Many in Goa say they worry that the wave of negative publicity will tarnish the state's sunny sheen permanently.

Were the officials nervous that a journalist might document the mosque destruction as evidence of religious persecution that would tarnish the state's image?

Meanwhile, efforts by Mr. Pearce, who is president of the State Senate, to forbid illegal immigrants to drive in the state or enroll in community colleges, failed to win the support of some Republicans who feared that such restrictions would further tarnish the state's image as well as damage its tourism industry.

And after enduring months of scandal over efforts to tarnish the state's top Republican, followed by public outrage over his plan to issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, Mr. Spitzer will begin his second year with a pronounced deficit in his own political capital.

Although not laid at Mr. Richardson's door, corruption scandals have also tarnished the state — "pay to play," in the words of critics.

The state reformed many of its laws and procedures that were unfriendly to business, extended various incentives for new enterprises, and reformed many of the political institutions and corrupt practices that had tarnished the state's image.

Tourism officials said such accounts were not widespread, but they were concerned that the rancor was tarnishing the state's image and were mindful of the boycott in the 1980s that led to Arizona's officially observing Martin Luther King's Birthday after initially rejecting it as a holiday.

Texas opposed the bar owner's trademark application, arguing that it would lead consumers to believe it was sponsored by the General Land Office and that it tarnished the state "by communicating that the heroism and sacrifice undertaken by its forebears is not worthy of memory or esteem," the agency wrote to the trademark appeals board.

Kathleen Hertenstein, who teaches English as a second language at the university and has lived in Tucson for 20 years, said the law certainly had tarnished the state's reputation in the eyes of many.