Sentence examples for tarnished position from inspiring English sources

The pharmaceutical industry, in an effort to overcome its tarnished position, has spent $230 million in the last two years on lobbying, image advertising and campaign contributions.

Singapore Airlines has eyed Ansett, the only significant competitor to Qantas in its home market, for years, and the proposed deal would let it exit its tarnished position in Air New Zealand, whose stock has slid in recent months.

Fueled with that fire, they marked Giglio an enemy and set out to have him tarnished and removed from this position of honor.

In 1995, Colin Powell, after his reputation was burnished by the first Gulf War and long before his reputation was tarnished by the second was uniquely positioned to become the first African-American President.

It had one eye on Syriza's strengthened position and feared being tarnished as a traitor to leftist ideals.

7 In 1995, Colin Powell, after his reputation was burnished by the first Gulf War — and long before his reputation was tarnished by the second — was uniquely positioned to become the first African-American President.

Laura is, of course, in a deeply ironic position: she does not "deserve" the tarnished beauty queen crown, but she has found personal reserves of toughness.

But the concentration of power also puts Facebook in a precarious position if Zuckerberg were to be tarnished by scandal or suddenly unable to continue his duties as CEO.

Similarly, when more than 500 current and female Wal-Mart employees filed a discrimination lawsuit against the company in February, the business skated away with its position in the public eye minimally tarnished.

To correlate the image contrast with stoichiometry we carried out X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) at a number of positions across the tarnish spot.

He conceded that the past three months of violence had "tarnished the image of Syria abroad and weakened the political position of the nation.