Word: tarnishing
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...publicity comes at an awkward time as the state gears up for next winter's Olympics, to be held in Salt Lake City. Some fear the polygamy trial could tarnish Utah's name internationally. Green is not above poking fun at the state's dilemma. "We even thought we would set up a polygamy booth at the airport and sell T shirts with pictures of my wives inside the five Olympic rings...
While imprisonment generally tends to tarnish a political figure’s image, Ogletree said Sharpton’s Vieques sentence does not detract from his candidacy...
...crackdown on terror suspects and forge an anti-terrorism consensus among Palestinians. He berates Washington's support Sharon, but has harsh words for Hamas, too: "As religious and political leaders throughout the Arab world have repeatedly stressed, the murder of civilians is an abomination. Such acts serve only to tarnish the Palestinian cause and furnish Sharon with the excuse to confuse the issues...
...understand music from the mind as well as from the heart, then I'm happy with the term, but I can't avoid the suspicion that many of the greatest composers might not comfortably be described as 'intellectuals.' There's always a danger that the act of analysis will tarnish the act of wonder...
...means other non-Balinese Indonesians as well, including the thousands of Muslims and Chinese-Indonesians living and working in Bali. All guests are entitled to the same rights, and certainly no individual or group of guests are allowed to do anything to damage the tourism business in Bali, or tarnish Bali?s image as an enlightened, friendly place. Having already resisted the Muslim expansion for 700 years, and having learned to absorb three million tourists a year while keeping their traditional culture, the Hindu Balinese are not about to allow outsiders to run their affairs...