Sentence examples for was badly dented from inspiring English sources

Our pride was badly dented.

And while today it remains the largest single political party, taking 30.9 per cent of the vote, Labour's popularity was badly dented by an independent inquiry soon afterwards.

The reputation of the Tokyo Stock Exchange TSEE) was badly dented this week after its flawed share-trading system cost a big bank several billion yen by preventing the cancellation of a mistaken sell order (see article).

His 1986 Cadillac was leaking coolant onto the pavement as he arrived, and the driver's door was badly dented; he slid across the front seat to get out on the passenger side.

But it is clear that tourism, which provides one job in seven and 11% of GDP, has been badly dented.

The picture is grimmer in America, where concerns about unemployment are greater and consumer confidence is badly dented, but the economic environment is worsening fast in Britain too.

The idea that the market price is the right price, however, has been badly dented.Mr Thaler also says that only some of the recent problems were behavioural.

Clients' faith in the advice of the industry's big names has been badly dented by their conspicuous inability to manage their own businesses.

The tower's steel had been badly dented by several winter storms and Hurricane Donna, which crossed directly over the tower in 1960 with winds of 132 miles per hour and waves more than 50 feet high.

Confidence in the Bank of Spain has been badly dented by the revelation of large losses at Bankia just weeks after senior bank supervisors trotted around financial capitals to assure investors that Spanish banks were well capitalised.

But its image has been badly dented in the struggle with Mr. Erdogan, with allegations of military misdeeds leaked to the news media, a development that would have been unheard of a decade ago.