Among the several messages and meditations he gave, the following illustrates the spirit: "The victims of war, which sullies people with hate and the earth with arms, plead for peace; our brothers and sisters, who live under the threat of bombs and are forced to leave their homes into the unknown, stripped of everything, plead for peace".
To Russia's cost, Mr Putin also refuses to see how his handling of the war in Chechnya sullies Russia's reputation too.Russia's tit-for-tat tactics in Chechnya are an outrage in a country that aspires to be an accepted part of the civilised worldDefending against terrorism often requires harsh measures, but it also requires that democratic governments at least strive to hold the moral high ground.
Without a box office hit to boost their earnings, a few of the characters that made the cut in 2002, like the Star Wars gang and Sully from Monsters, Inc., fell off this time around.
Before becoming the voice of gravity and a champion of higher troop levels in the eight-year long war, McChrystal's resume was sullied by a controversy in that same theater: the misclassified death of Pat Tillman.
It is a time of war, and an implacable enemy seeks to sully America's image, destroy its way of life and undermine its allies.
Unlike his opponents, he said, his record of judgment wasn't sullied with a vote for the Iraq war.
Koestler and Silone were sullied by the bruising battles of the cold war, while Orwell's early death, as Harris says, bestowed an "aura of unassailable posthumous integrity" on his life and work.
The result, critics of this administration contend, has been a disastrous loss of international support, damage to American credibility, the sullying of America's image and a devastating war that has already taken more than 1,000 American lives.
Sully sees a chance for something that, as a disabled war veteran, he thought might be forever denied him: a chance to have non-disabled sex – and fall in love.
Some of his attempts to sully his wife's opponent — calling Obama's consistent opposition to the Iraq war "the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen" and dismissing his South Carolina victory as a racial one, like Jesse Jackson's twenty years ago — have been untruthful or unworthy or both.
