Sentence examples for tarnished as from inspiring English sources

The terrorist group's "brand" might be irredeemably tarnished, as happened with al-Qaida.

Germany's credibility as a defender of human rights and democracy has been tarnished, as has its reputation as a reliable partner in the Western alliance.

Had he been convicted he could have spent up to a year in jail and had his reputation tarnished as well, severely harming his chances of playing in the NBA again.

And if so, how? Thomas Aquinas, the most important medieval theologian in the West, took a representative position when he taught that her conception was tarnished, as was that of all humans, but that God suppressed and ultimately extinguished original sin in her, apparently before she was born.

"You should cash in on your former prestige, tarnished as it is.

"The neighborhood has been tarnished as a whole for what happens in a very limited area," Mr. Cremin-Endes said.

The aluminum surface is as highly reflective as silver and does not tarnish as readily.

Swissair counted on its sound reputation to make the alliance a success, but it soon began to tarnish as punctuality suffered and several of the smaller carriers, especially Sabena, proved persistently weak.

It acquired personality, which meant that mishaps tarnished it, as during the Diana crisis of 1997.

But the precincts of Second Avenue were tarnishing, and as early as 1853, Gerard Stuyvesant and others had to protest the extension of a surface railway along Second, which a later map shows.

In fact, the whole volume won't do much for Capote's already tarnished reputation as a truth-teller.