Sentence examples for the disrepute from inspiring English sources

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the disrepute

noun

Loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit.

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"If any athlete from any sport is nominated, we look at everything... including behaviour, including the disrepute clause".

Bonaparte thereupon returned to France to exploit his own great prestige and the disrepute into which the military reverses had brought the government.

The disrepute charge was handed down mainly over the club's failure to pay more than £13m in taxes last season and the SFA's legal representative, Aidan O'Neill QC, had said that the punishment had to be "effective, dissuasive and proportionate".

The attraction of this particular interpretation of the concept of truthful architecture was probably due to the popularity of new attitudes toward experimental science and to the disrepute into which mythology had been cast by the philosophers of the Enlightenment.

A year ago, few could have imagined the disrepute into which the priesthood would slip following hundreds of sexual abuse cases involving clergy and a clueless response by bishops who misidentified exactly whom they were supposed to be shepherding.

Following a three-hour hearing at the court of session in Edinburgh, the judge accepted the club's petition for a judicial review as he ruled that the SFA could administer only the specific punishments stated in the rule relating to the disrepute charge.

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Terrorism by the few (albeit supported by the many) has brought the whole nation into disrepute; the resurrection of the intifada has caused deep suffering.

If he had been found to have brought the party into disrepute, the peer faced possible expulsion from the Lib Dems.

When a player, owner or agent brings the game into disrepute, the American system of league governance requires the commissioner to take decisive action.

Rozanne Duncan, a councillor for Thanet, Kent, has been expelled for "bringing the party into disrepute", the party said.

Simulation is rife in football, but even though some actions clearly bring the game into disrepute, the authorities stay mute.

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