How To Use Reputation In A Sentence
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A Scottish moor long bore the reputation for being haunted by a phantom flock of sheep, which were always heard "baaing" plaintively before a big storm.
Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
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Once upon a time there was an old sow of impeccable reputation who lived a quiet life inside a busy farmyard.
Times, Sunday Times
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With the usual prerogative of the wealthy classes, he tended to choose doctors with a reputation for having studied some topics in greater detail than usual.
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These creatures have the reputation of being smelly, vicious, spiteful and unreliable.
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The politically astute know all about the importance of reputation management.
Times, Sunday Times
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Balboa had a reputation as a fierce and quarrelsome young man.
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Companies must earn a reputation for honesty.
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His Honour saw that if conduct is not unprofessional, the practitioner is entitled to an untainted reputation.
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Yet he occupies an important position in the history of 18th-century art and his reputation deserves to stand higher than it does.
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He is a man with a reputation for being tough and unafraid of unpopular decisions.
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As his reputation declined, the sculptor retreated to his studio and stopped exhibiting.
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The events had stained the city's reputation unfairly.
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From its reputation as a cure-all, comes the obscure name of the plant ‘tutsan’ which is a corruption of the French La toute-saine - meaning ‘all-heal’.
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Often the founders or their descendants, they tend to take a longer-term view than purely financial investors and are more concerned with issues such as reputation.
Times, Sunday Times
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At one time food tended to be cooked in lard or goose fat, and this gave it a reputation for being heavy and hard to digest.
Cheap Eats Guide to Europe 1994
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The group built their reputation by playing across the length and breadth of North America.
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He was called to the Irish bar in 1951 and has earned a reputation as an esteemed playwright, poet and biographer.
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Margaret Eleanor Atwood (1939- ) is a prestigious contemporary Canadian woman writer, poet, and critic with international reputation and she is famous for her prolificacy and experimental techniques.
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His dig at Sunderland last week only enhanced his reputation.
The Sun
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Often the founders or their descendants, they tend to take a longer-term view than purely financial investors and are more concerned with issues such as reputation.
Times, Sunday Times
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fey" -- at least so our chief engineer remarked to me, and he has some reputation among the Celtic portion of our crew as a seer and expounder of omens.
The Captain of the Polestar
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A reputation for tolerance and civil liberties had been replaced by violence and repression.
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A world reputation for jobs, and a ‘welcome to the neighbourhood’ attitude has historically created a city of immigrants and ethnic enclaves.
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Griffons were pony-sized, quadrupedal avians with such a reputation for savagery that they had been banned from all the Northern mountain provinces.
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And even the reputations of major figures at times fluctuate, with periods of obscurity intermitting their fame.
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Furthermore, a series of strategic gaffs have further badly damaged the already squalid reputation which the industry has earned for itself.
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Thomas Heywood enjoys an outstanding reputation as one of the world's finest concert organists.
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A social scientist of great distinction and international reputation, Malinowski was a founder of modern social anthropology.
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The Illegal Eagles have progressed from playing the small local club circuit to acquiring a reputation for themselves at major concert venues.
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The company's reputation suffered when it had to recall thousands of products that were unsafe.
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City College had a reputation as a caldron of black rage.
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It's difficult to emerge from such a scandal with your reputation still intact.
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We are confident that their reputation and persuasive skills will come in handy for the municipal authorities to collect taxes from defaulters, " said Bharat Sharma, a revenue officer.
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I say to you that you are honour-bound, from the point of view of your reputation, to give that ruling.
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This was our first visit, and we arrived sceptical about anywhere with such an oversized reputation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Reputations aside, looking the part has certainly been integral to this almost episodic drama, at least as it's unfolded in the media.
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If Thomas has a reputation for being a sourpuss, those who have been around him for most of his career insist that reputation is unwarranted anyway.
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Its destruction marred the prince's reputation, and it marked the end of his military career.
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It would certainly confirm the country's international reputation as a backward and benighted land.
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Since divorcing their drummer last year, the trio adopted samplers and beatboxes and has been steadily gaining a reputation as one of the best live acts in town, albeit with one of the shortest sets.
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That," said Sethos, with a fair imitation of his infuriating smile," is what comes of having a reputation for omniscience.
LORD OF THE SILENT
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Part of Doyle's reputation for dissipation is cultivated.
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The competitive infatuation with ‘signature’ skyscrapers may continue to get the publicity, but some of the best young talents are staking their claims and reputations on the ground.
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He had a reputation for being politically officious and self - serving.
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Foster trained as a silversmith and has an established reputation both as a designer and metalworker.
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Beauvoir, Alphonse Karr, Émile Souvestre, who, to no small extent individually and to a very great extent when taken in battalion, helped to conquer that supreme reputation for amusingness, for pastime, which the French novel has so long enjoyed throughout Europe.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. Elbert Hubbard
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His company was properly registered, and he boasted several business associates with impeccable reputations.
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You are making a value judgment based on reputation and trust.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm fascinated by opal and its mythical reputation, so much so that my main character in my forthcoming novel, The Last Romanov, possesses an opal eye.
Dora Levy Mossanen: Fires, Opals and the Romanovs
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If your wines perform well in this star-studded cast, their reputation is made.
Times, Sunday Times
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A Yorkshire historian is calling on the Queen to help to clear Richard III of the double child murder which has blackened his reputation for more than 500 years.
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We know from her letters that Frances destroyed the original, so that it would not injure her husband's reputation.
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Other footballers find a way to reintegrate themselves into the sport and recover their lost reputations.
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He has a well-deserved reputation as a reliable worker.
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The former England captain made his reputation as a prolific goalscorer and allround champion of attacking football.
The Sun
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That it did not only reinforces his reputation as something of a bionic man.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most of the 200 or so runs across the two mountains are far more sedate, and Whistler is even establishing a reputation as a decent place to learn to ski.
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There is a high risk in going it alone with unproven technology, and a further reputational risk if it fails to work and punters are left unhappy.
Times, Sunday Times
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But I knew that he enjoyed the reputation as one of the keenest intellects and best Supreme Court advocates in the highly competitive Washington legal market.
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The story goes that downtrodden Sophie works in a hat shop and one day meets the glamorous wizard Howl, a charming ladykiller who has garnered the reputation of eating girls' hearts, despite looking more like a ladyboy.
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I have tried to keep my reputation - to fight for my reputation - while it's been besmirched, and I have tried to do it in a way that brings honor to the House.
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When, for example, Karl and I made the simulation more realistic and allowed for mutations, or mistakes in an evolving population of players, then we saw cooperation and defection wax and wane over time, as those with a good reputation are actually undermined by indiscriminate altruists who help anyone, no matter how well or badly the latter have behaved in the past.
SuperCooperators
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Levy is a creditable state advocate, a Jehovah's Witness with a reputation for honesty.
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Borromini's was surely a life lived baroquely, and his reputation was dealt with in no less a manner.
Borromini: the first architect
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Meanwhile, outside the United States, the Abu Ghraib story doesn't so much ‘damage’ our reputation, as it merely cements it.
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Dandun Foodstuff a good reputation from all the consumers.
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Dogs such as Akitas, bull terriers and Rottweilers have a bad reputation due to the way they are paraded around by idiots.
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Whether Swedish, shiatsu or a basic sports massage, these rubdowns have earned their reputation for buoying mind, body and spirit.
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But for all his reputation as a pragmatist, there's a steely and obdurate side to him that comes to the surface every so often.
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But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with. George Washington
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Governments rise and fall, familiar names and reputations are juggled about like numbered balls in a shaker, come to the top to be submerged again in a new 'emeute'.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
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Sometimes the information is certified by a firm of accountants or investment bankers, who put their reputation on the line when they endorse a company 's report.
Principles of Corporate Finance
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Garnering international attention, that episode further fostered the group's violent reputation resulting from a well-documented incident involving the spearing deaths of five North American Summer Institute of Linguistics SIL missionaries in 1956.
Suzan Crane: Finding my Soul and Losing my Heart in the Equadorian Amazon: A Spiritual Journey With the Remote Huaorani Tribe
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Nevertheless, Hayes had a reputation as a civil-service reformer, so he fought the oligarchs.
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In the two years he has been in business, he has established a reputation as the specialist in this field.
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By the first many a smatterer acquires the reputation of a man of quick parts; by the other many a dunderpate, like the owl, the stupidest of birds, comes to be considered the very type of wisdom.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
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He avoided censure through his reputation for being proved right and the certainty that he spoke in the general interest - not his own.
Times, Sunday Times
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Both parties walk away with a clean reputation and no animus toward the other.
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We must build on our reputation to expand the business.
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These damages are measured by how much the libelous statements lower the plaintiff's reputation.
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And despite their boring reputation, they read more humorous books than any other profession.
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He has a reputation for rudeness and intellectual arrogance.
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Although it enjoys a louche reputation among the druggie and stag-party sets, it's actually one of the most refined, stylish cities I know.
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These scandals will not enhance the organization's reputation/image.
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Now, we have a true activist investor in Dan Loeb whose reputation is as good as Einhorn's.
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He had developed a fearsome reputation for intimidating people.
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His political reputation is tainted by the matter.
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He is seeking damages for harm to his reputation and career.
The Sun
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The same network of gossipers that are used to destroy reputations can also be used to increase your rapport with someone.
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It must also be pointed out that there is a difference between the publishing of material that is found to be libelous and stories that may be false, but injure no individual's reputation.
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He enjoyed a reputation for building tall elegant masonry structures such as church towers and spires.
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But it's not all downside - the prospect of big penalties discourages any company with a good reputation from entering to compete with us.
Times, Sunday Times
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But this hatred mainly comes from the magpie's reputation as an omen of ill fortune.
The Sun
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She is laughing - she is much sparkier than her reputation would suggest - nonetheless she means it, so we move on.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Jake had a reputation for being able to outeat everybody in terms of quantity and in the amount of time spent eating.
How and When to Be Your Own Doctor
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity. Baltasar Gracian
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We may have no big names of stars on our team but they are all triers to the last and will not be overawed by the reputation of the Dubs.
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This east European touring group has built a reputation that eats up superlatives.
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The scandal could damage her reputation but the press reported it anyhow.
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-- In Act Two, a immature Pompey is in fighting behind opposite a triumvirate of Octavius, Antony as good as Lepidus, fervent to rehabilitate a reputation of his father, once cheered by a Roman mob, killed in conflict by Julius Caesar.
Archive 2009-11-01
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With a simple ethos of delivering a bill reflecting the very best in terms of both talent and reputation, headliners include the grandpapa of French house music François Kevorkian, playing his Deep Space set for the first and only time in the UK this year, alongside his longtime collaborator and sometime resident at legendary NYC fun factory Loft, Danny Krivit.
Clubs picks of the week
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As well as being an affluent and a very exciting place to be, Manchester has a great reputation as a fashionable city and that is something that appealed to us a lot.
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It was the kind of thing which really hurt her reputation and it was done for spite.
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Calling the SEC "nonfunctional" and harmful to the reputation of the U.S. as a global financial leader, Markopolos recommended ways to revamp the agency, including replacing its senior staff and establishing a central office to receive complaints from whistleblowers.
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We don't use force just to burnish our reputation or to enhance our credibility.
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Alcohol, comic books and mouthwash all bask under the superior reputation of the market.
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Reputations are rehabilitated or discredited.
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A Pembrokeshire man, he established his reputation as a jouster and was knighted at Edward VI's coronation.
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I assume my reputation for arrogant presumption precedes me, so I'll be anything but brief.
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They were all pretty much at least 18 by then, and apparently weren't all lily-white like their reputations would have you believe.
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It's hard to overcome the reputation of having a buggy product.
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He had shot three people dead earning himself a reputation as a tough guy.
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The museum has been loudly trumpeting its reputation as one of the finest in the world.
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Given her reputation for shortness with them, she might not accept it.
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This company receives the reputation gold idea: The absolute sincerity to, the sincerity enough to move popular sentiment, the quality is supreme, welldoing world.
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The British inland waterway system, flourishing in the early nineteenth century, was staffed by a large body of bargees who, like the railway navvies, earned an unenviable reputation for roughness.
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These organisations project a reputation of being caring, considerate and benevolent.
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He made his reputation as an actor playing villains.
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But as the RADA-trained actress sees her reputation grow, she fears being typecast in roles as brassy northerners.
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With his reputation as an enlightened, well-informed senior High Court judge, Lord Bonomy is unafraid to take on the government of the day.
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His fervent soap-box oratory, rhetorical literary style, and experience as secretary of the Timber Workers Union brought a growing reputation.
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Being proud and genteel New Englanders, the salon-goers covered up their patricide with flattery, duly noting Edwards's considerable intellect and pious reputation.
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The rottweiler has earned a fearsome reputation as extremely loyal and as a menacing guard dog.
Times, Sunday Times
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The project has built up a unique and enviable reputation among the local people and other community organisations.
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I'm aware of Mark's reputation for being late.
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The irresponsible behaviour of the few can no longer be allowed to tarnish the reputation and the contribution of the many.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed, many such businesses would have seen this kind of activity as a potential threat to their reputation and brand.
Computing
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He burnished JFK's reputation as a great president.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although Johnston depicts Cook as a cautious and dignified man compared to his vainglorious counterpart, both men risked their reputations in their mutual quest.
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Tears have already been shed over the brioche, reputations left in tatters over the fondant icing.
Times, Sunday Times
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She regarded his comment as a slander on her good reputation.
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His later attempts to revise tax-assessments and improve the efficiency of their collection soon won him the reputation of an extortioner.
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He has been unable to work, has suffered great financial loss and his reputation left in tatters.
Times, Sunday Times
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But they keep coming back because the only way to earn a reputation is by besting him.
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Such is Kerry's reputation for irresolution that even when he does talk tough, America's adversaries don't take him seriously.
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He has been unable to work, has suffered great financial loss and his reputation left in tatters.
Times, Sunday Times
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A frown of irritation creased his brown and weather-beaten face, obscured by a scraggly black beard that tended to make him rather inscrutable, and probably enhanced his reputation amongst the villagers.
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It was a classic piece of opportunism by Ryanair, the cut-price Irish airline, which has cultivated a reputation for irreverence and has a history of picking fights with the big guys.
What Do We Do About Ireland?
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'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I am so candid.
Sole Music
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Yet his reputation as 'a bit of a choker' was not enhanced through the year.
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The Italian has a reputation for being stern and strict with players and media alike.
The Sun
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If only Britain had someone to watchdog its press, his public reputation would still gleam.
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Favre built his reputation in the wintry weather in Green Bay, winning a playoff game in January 2008 during his last season with the Packers while flakes flew all over and Lambeau Field looked like a shook-up snow globe.
NFL Games Moved To Monday Due To Snowstorm
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Anyone judged by the electoral commission to lack ‘a good reputation’ was also prohibited from running for office.
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At 45, the Marquis has already earned the reputation of a cool-headed, unsentimental type.
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Her reputation suffered a mortal blow as a result of the scandal.
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His body symbolizes the future good morality, honor, and reputation of his patrilineage and the performance of certain patrilineal rituals.
Waldo Jaquith - Allen angry about “Lost Soldiers.”
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Many of the widely known Chinese artists presented variations - some slight, some radical - on the type of work that made their reputation.
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Sea bream have a reputation for being delicate feeders.
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Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. George Washington
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The Business School has a reputation for excellence in research.
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I was well aware of his reputation for bumptiousness.
The White House Car Czar
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He was neither a prude nor a Puritan, but he was scornful of self-indulgence, and though he earned a reputation as the champion of the poor, it was only of the deserving and never of the idle.
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Within a semester, he had invented something new - a beautiful game played on a rhombus with Go stones - that instantly established his reputation as a pure mathematician.
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Its reputation for innovation extends right through to course content.
Times, Sunday Times
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The magazine also enhanced its reputation for conviviality.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has the qualifications, reputation and awareness of what should, and should not, be.
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Our company always hold quality as the first principle and enjoy good reputation among our customers.
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sully someone's reputation
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And they've been trying to shake off their reputation for sneakiness, deviousness, and just plain disgustingness, hoping for a new image in the 21st century.
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Terms such as thought leader, golden boy, or winner refer to people with a power base of reputation.
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Akira has a well deserved reputation for being one of the most detailed works on animation ever and Otomo has easily surpassed his earlier work here.
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It is simply not worth having a failure against your name; a sullied reputation means a manager who may have blown his last chance.
Times, Sunday Times
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We want to get rid of this reputation of being a yo-yo club.
The Sun
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He frequently spoiled his splendid point-work with the burin, and his reputation as an aquafortist depends, therefore, more on what he did than on how he did it.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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He should not discount the impact a successful pre-election budget would have on both his reputation and his standing within the government.
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But as far as his reputation goes, the Trainspotting account is dangerously overdrawn.
Times, Sunday Times
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Richardson claims she was libeled and her reputation as a professional interviewer has been irrevocably damaged.
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She realized that this odd behavior was beginning to get her a reputation around the neighborhood.
COLDHEART CANYON
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But taking on the grifters would destroy the show's reputation, which would mean a falloff in customers, more clems with the towners, and eventually being frozen off planet by most or all of the profitable stands that the show had developed.
City of Baraboo
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I believe the measure would redound to our mutual benefit and reputation.
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Latham had a reputation for erratic behaviour, not consulting his erstwhile colleagues and for some of the most unparliamentary language ever entered into Hansard.
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George Lucas on the other hand ruined his own Star Wars myth, and his reputation as a director, if not a money maker, with poorly plotted, miscast prequels which played fast and loose with the fans' cherished memories.
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Tears have already been shed over the brioche, reputations left in tatters over the fondant icing.
Times, Sunday Times
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His economic reputation is in tatters.
The Sun
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He has lost his business, his reputation, his good character, his savings and his career.
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Hoover was building his reputation as a crime-buster.
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There's nothing like gaining a reputation as a red-hot creative shop for turning up the pressure in a business where you're only as good as your last ad.
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They have been kitted out for work with awful fawn aertex shirts, grey slacks and green pullovers but they wear silk stockings and lipstick when off duty, and have rapidly acquired a reputation for being ‘fast’, which has all the young men buzzing round like wasps at a honey pot.
Presumption of Death
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There would be a reputational risk - but they might choose to brazen it out.
Times, Sunday Times
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His reputation attained mythic proportions; but resentment grew as Ferrari began to dominate an inherently imbalanced sport.
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The notion was to rehabilitate the reputation of Asurbanipal, the second-last King of Assyria, whom the Greeks called "Sardanapalus," who reigned in Nineveh six hundred years before
William of Germany
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His reputation as an autocratic know-it-all goes before him.
The Sun
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Despite this formidable reputation, it has lurked largely in the shadows in this country.
Times, Sunday Times
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He had an enviable reputation, once upon a time, as a symphonist of real individuality, like Simpson today.
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Rotary engines have a reputation for being thirsty, dirty and difficult to maintain.
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These include shaping the long-term jurisprudential reputations of Roberts and his colleagues.
Kentucky.com: Homepage
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The response was overwhelming and the club acquired a reputation for a lively, hedonistic atmosphere.
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You need only one or two disgruntled patients to post derogatory comments to damage your reputation and that of your practice.
Times, Sunday Times
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Also thanks for the referral for the auto sales, it would be nice to work with someone with agood reputation. jerezano
Rental cars
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He's unflinching on this: the restoration of his reputation is at stake.
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The Chaplain is plainly uncertain, as he wrestles with the clerical guillotine of washable xylonite, and stammers something about unwarrantable liberty and a lady's reputation!
The Dop Doctor
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To care for wisdom and truth and the improvement of the soul is far better than to seek money and honour and reputation.
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In each case the company has built up a reputation for reliability and high quality.
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A delightful event, but things gang aft agley when a certain mayor cracks wise about a certain nation's reputation for thriftiness and predilection for men in ‘skirts.’
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A social scientist of great distinction and international reputation, Malinowski was a founder of modern social anthropology.
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This waning reputation led some SBC congregations to drop the word "Baptist" from their church's name.
Jonathan Merritt: What's In A Name? A Lot If You're The Southern Baptist Convention
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Despite concerted attempts to soften his rough-and-ready image, Latham found it difficult to shake off a reputation for aggression after breaking a taxi driver's arm in a dispute over a fare three years ago.
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She realized that this odd behavior was beginning to get her a reputation around the neighborhood.
COLDHEART CANYON
