Sentence examples for tarnished himself from inspiring English sources

Peter Oborne of the Telegraph, fresh from declaring in May that Cameron had "risen to the level of events" and could be a "great prime minister", has now decided that Cameron has fallen to the level of the sewer and has tarnished himself for good.

If Mr. Giuliani seeks to use his current standing in public opinion to overturn the political process, he will tarnish himself and create the disunity he so wishes to avoid.

A player seemingly bound for the Hall of Fame now finds himself tarnished, and baseball is left to cope with another damaging drug revelation.

Fabricio's claims have excited the opposition, but he is himself a tarnished figure.

The presence at matches of Mr. Ahmadinejad, a player and soccer enthusiast, was often seen as a bad omen, depriving the former president of the opportunity he sought to polish his tarnished image by identifying himself with the beautiful game.

Yet by allying himself to the tarnished Mr Berlusconi, he has damaged his credibility.

True, Silverman's examples are old ones, from the days when McCain was reinventing himself after being tarnished by a close association with the crooked banker Charles Keating.

At the same time, Alpo is often reviled as a snitch, a rat of the highest order who allegedly betrayed the street code to save himself, tarnishing his legacy in the chronicles of gangster lore.

But the Dillon name was tarnished after congressional hearings, and Clarence himself left Wall Street.

Armstrong himself accepted that his legacy still tarnished the Tour.

It opens a new front against Mr. Berlusconi, who is already defending himself against sex scandals that have tarnished his international image and attacks from within his own center-right governing coalition.