Sentence examples for try to tarnish from inspiring English sources

So for people to try to tarnish that and have little digs, that's why you have to come out fighting.

At the same time, Republicans are increasingly turning their attention to Mrs. Clinton to try to tarnish her tenure at the State Department.

Mr. Kagermann took a different view of Oracle's motivation, suggesting that it was exploiting some missteps at a far-flung SAP subsidiary to try to tarnish the German company's reputation.

The idea that someone would try to tarnish him, to make him seem less than what he was, was not something that black people were ready to deal with.

I think the question that really the treasury should pay attention that under its nose the Iranian regime lobby has engaged in a major campaign of demonisation and propaganda to try to tarnish the image of these Iranians who are American citizens," he said.

They try to tarnish him without playing the race card.

Those who suggest so are foreign agitators purposely trying to tarnish Ethiopia's image.

In the early thirties, German leftists tried to tarnish the Nazis by publicizing Röhm's affiliations and affairs.

Salter also noted, "Senator McCain is not trying to tarnish Grover Norquist's reputation by tying him to Jack Abramoff.

Democrats complain that his office tried to tarnish candidates facing election and intimidate state lawmakers before they cast crucial votes.

Mr. Bernardi says the judge's stiff sentence was partly a punishment for trying to tarnish his lawyer's name.