Sentence examples for won reputation from inspiring English sources

First, a devaluation would knock the stuffing out of Hong Kong's financial markets, and China's carefully won reputation for keeping its hands off its new territory would be destroyed overnight.

Tacitus' account, however, shows that he belonged to a class of pleasure-seekers attacked by the Stoic philosopher Seneca, men who "turned night into day"; where others won reputation by effort, Petronius did so by idleness.

Such work may seem an inefficient sideline in a city burdened with huge antiterrorism responsibilities, but if Mr. Kelly hopes to retain his newly won reputation, he would do well to follow through on recent efforts by becoming more inclusive in his outreach.

The idea is that losing your hard-won reputation offsets the short-term gain from using the phone.

And although he had a hard-won reputation for good economic management, his new efforts to reform are unlikely to win much support from the public.As usual, the ruling party has been thumped in big states.

The new aid narrative jeopardises this hard-won reputation.

British beef is a big business with a hard-won reputation for quality.

Yet if Darling is no radical, he relishes his hard-won reputation for competence.

Bloomberg's hard-won reputation for groundbreaking work in China took years to establish.

Does ill-judged research – however media-friendly – tarnish this hard-won reputation?

If not, Redgrave's hard-won reputation as Britain's most extraordinary rower will be in severe danger.