Mr. Yates said on Monday that he had acted with "complete integrity" in his actions involving The News of the World, that he was the victim of "malicious gossip" and that if he were to be impugned for having links to Mr. Wallis, so, too, should those with links to Mr. Coulson, Mr. Wallis's one-time boss.
The burning in 1789 of Catherine Murphy, a counterfeiter, was impugned in Parliament by Sir Benjamin Hammett.
Their intellectual honesty was impugned, and their doctrines were blamed for weakening the moral fibre of Greece.
Yet even at the height of his career, his orthodoxy was impugned.
Mr Galloway was not willing to let his reputation be impugned in this way". Julia Schopflin, for the paper's publisher, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, and its editor, Paul Van Slambrouck, said: "The Christian Science Monitor published the article based on documents which it believed were genuine but which it now accepts were forgeries.
Plame and her husband were being impugned by powerful political forces.
Secondly, when funding for homeopathy research became available relatively recently, the pool of potential homeopathy-savvy investigators was generally weak in medical research knowledge or experience, leading to the publication of studies that could be impugned on scientific grounds.
I was impugning the fact that you, sir, do not speak for the South Africans any more than I speak for all Americans". In another excerpt, he said, "It was an unfortunate choice of words.
He seemed to think I was impugning all conservatives.
If analysts refrain from making nonconsensus calls for fear of being impugned publicly without evidence, investors and our stock markets will suffer.
It also serves as a good catch phrase, an impartation of wisdom worth being passed on to younger generations to whom the importance of perseverance is being stressed and for whom surrender in the face of obstacles is being impugned.
