It is encouraging to see that Inspector-General of Police is determined to clean up the force whose image was being dented by a few bad eggs. |
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The world is frightened, economies are dented, and war has eroded global solidarity. |
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It had dinged and dented spacecraft from day one, a maintenance headache, but not seen as a real threat. |
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Once celebrated as one of Europe's best businessmen and revered as a management guru by many, his reputation now looks dented. |
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The damage is from the front wheel arch all along the car to the back wheel arch, nicely dented, scratched and gouged. |
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What they've got to remember is a dented wing mirror to a car is a broken leg to a rider. |
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If they undertake to refurbish the building, they can rebuild the Odeon's dented reputation. |
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The deal helped Sotheby's repair its balance sheet, which had been dented badly by the fines and settlements after its price-fixing case. |
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They resumed bickering over the seat until Julia settled it for them by sitting on the freshly dented seat. |
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In the boys locker room, the lockers are dented in and broken, and the walls have giant holes in them. |
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As for O'Neill, he left with his reputation as a quick-witted sharp operator severely dented. |
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Upon her return, Susanna had accidentally dented the car a little by running into a telephone pole while attempting to park. |
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The bridge was a line of old barges that had been crudely tied together, the deck a mishmash of welded patches of dented rusting metal. |
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The leading edge of my left outboard pylon dented the trailing edge of the adjacent jet's right stabilator. |
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Check stores that carry overstocks, closeouts and slightly dented items for great deals on storage racks and freestanding units. |
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Six or seven cars were damaged, with bonnets dented, sunroofs smashed and scrapings on the sides of the cars. |
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A second consecutive defeat has severely dented Oxford's promotion hopes, despite the home side's scoring an early goal. |
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Our hood was crumpled and the fender was dented, but the engine continued to run. |
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This is the same facilities team who refused to send a circular email when my car was dented in the office car park! |
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The entire massive plinth and the next solid moulding above it are left with a rough surface, dented by heavy hammers and not peened to a sheen. |
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Charges of corruption, Mafia collusion and bribery seem not to have dented his appeal. |
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It came to rest near the flightline, the only damage being a bent propeller, starboard undercarriage door and some dented pride. |
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Sadly, one night, some vandals broke into a locked storeroom and dented a French horn and broke the mouthpiece off an antique bassoon. |
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Hockey pucks ranging from black to orange to white were scattered across the now greatly dented frosty surface. |
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This morning's good mood severely dented by incompetent carriers who have repeatedly failed to deliver parcels on time and to the right address. |
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And by glossing over this fact the credibility of the survey gets severely dented. |
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The legal settlements companies now regularly pay out have not dented this margin because consumers foot the bill through huge price hikes. |
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It also looked aged, the sides dented, and rusted from too much battle, not enough care. |
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The passenger side window was smashed, the light clusters were smashed, and the panels on the drivers side door were dented. |
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The BMW's windscreen was smashed on the driver's side and the bonnet was left dented from the impact of the collision. |
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Ryo had totally missed the trashcan and instead had dented someone's mailbox a few feet away from the target. |
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Blundell's chances had already been dented by an engine problem before he even had a chance to turn a wheel in anger. |
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Peter may be nursing a nasty foot injury, but his confidence has not been dented. |
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A second consecutive defeat has severely dented Oxford's promotion hopes, despite the home side scoring an early goal. |
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But that has not dented his anticipation or enthusiasm for the coming campaign. |
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He insists the experience hasn't dented his enthusiasm for making another film, but he would never adapt one of his plays again. |
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The home side's ambitions were, however, soon dented by two quick scores by Keighley. |
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Undoubtedly, York will be dented by defeat against a side they beat at home earlier in the season. |
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A good reputation can be severely dented by a dissatisfied cleaner or by a disgruntled customer. |
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He still had on some armor that covered his rather muscular physique, but it was scratched and dented pretty badly. |
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The spoon had been bent into such a shape that would provide louder clanging, and the pot was misshapen, being dented in many places. |
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His old shield had taken many blows and was dented, so he replaced it with a buckler with red trim, a gold emblem at its center. |
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In the past, when India was an insulated economy, big oil shocks dented the country's national income and household savings. |
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His armor, once immaculately burnished gold, was now tarnished and dented in a dozen locations. |
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Luckily, he was wearing a helmet, because it was dented when he hit the deck. |
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Then there is Southwest Airlines a case of a well-earned good reputation that has been dented. |
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The side of his car was dented and destroyed, three bullet holes already in it and a loose back tire, the rim about to pop off from the constant banging. |
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One curious thing about her is that her evident calculatedness, her shark-like remorselessness and her aloofness has never dented her immense popularity. |
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A CHARM bracelet festooned with trinkets, worn and slightly dented, hangs in the window of a pawnshop in Paddington, in west London. |
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Others were dented, but because of a cold snap in April, there weren't as many cherries on the trees to damage. |
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He was large and bald and held a slightly dented trashcan lid. |
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The cylinder was dented and the valve head was still attached to the cylinder. |
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But I have long believed that it's actually pretty difficult to find a bad meal in Italy, and nothing I ate in Positano dented this theory. |
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I think unemployment will continue to grow in many countries, and consumer trust will be dented for a long time to come. |
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Each vehicle is fully deformable, with impacts on individual parts of the chassis giving rise to lost doors, dented bodywork and smashed windscreens. |
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Though of course if you didn't want the dented ones, you were out of luck. |
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Yet, the military conflict with Russia that erupted in August 2008 dented the strong growth performance of the previous years. |
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Higher inflation has dented the purchasing power of households and has, as a result, put a brake on private consumption growth. |
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The demise of Enron, a highly respected energy trading firm, dented investor confidence in corporate America, and sent shock waves through the financial markets. |
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A team still trying to rebuild the confidence that has been dented by a shoogly start to the season, Alloa's desires were fuelled as much by fear as ambition. |
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Never use or purchase foods from jars with loose or bulging lids or from bulging, leaking or badly dented cans. |
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The kitchen is outside, in a separate little hut, where a few dented dishes and cups, one cooking pot and a wooden stirrer lie scattered around a mud-and-tin oven. |
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My fender had already been dented in, from a spin-out into a snow drift. |
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The ability of the Community industry to raise capital was dented by its consistently poor profitability. |
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Metal filters, from what Cummins Filtration customers told its engineers, can be easily dented in shipping or handling. |
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From my perspective, no. Abroad, the events you mention dented our image slightly, but no more than that. |
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The front hood of John's jeep was seriously dented and crushed in. |
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Anyway, Canadians travelling their country can see with their own eyes that the forest has hardly been dented. |
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Other cars in the Keith Thompson Centre car park, at Braithwaite, Keighley, had windscreens smashed and body work dented in the incident on Monday night. |
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Several vehicles have had their windscreens broken and bodywork dented. |
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Although this dented the recovery in output, Latvia's inflation record has remained relatively good and gdp has started expanding again. |
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On 116th Street, dented low riders slinked by, windows open, music blaring. |
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Most of these characters are, spiritually speaking, kicking a dented can down a dusty road. |
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Effective to clean blind holes, dented parts and tough to reach areas. |
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Ordinary metal filters are easily dented and damaged. |
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Do not use damaged, broken or dented capsules! |
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The Negative data which was published during the previous week, especially from the American and the German economies, has dented confidence for a swift global recovery. |
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The road is dented but the car's occupants are used to it. |
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Even when appointments are appropriate, the effectiveness of the appeals process is dented if the screening of requests for hearings is not transparent, or when the backlog of cases means years spent waiting to be heard. |
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Sent from England, each one typically contains about 150 scratched, dented, or lightly used refrigerators and freezers that will still fetch a good price in East Africa. |
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During this time, Harold Godwinson led a campaign of raids which dented the authority in Wales. |
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While their and others' attacks brought home a great deal of money, they hardly dented the flow of gold and silver from Mexico to Spain. |
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However, with the EEA's credibility dented following rejection by businesses and Switzerland, the EU agreed with full membership. |
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The Marcher lord was still clad in his ratty black cloak and dented breastplate with its chipped enamel lightning. |
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Hardy, standing next to Nelson on the quarterdeck, had his shoe buckle dented by a splinter. |
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His theatrical disasters never dented his zest for high living. |
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A battering for China's export-driven economy has badly dented sales at premium producers like Wuliangye and Maotai. |
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Army dented the confidence of Wapda by winning the 20 kilometre individual road time trial. |
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Revelations that Michael Jordan had lost hundreds of thousands of dollars gambling barely dented his appeal, since the story reinforced the image of him as a fierce competitor. |
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And the introduction of predators such as the mosquitofish to waterways has dented numbers further. |
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On the whole, recent trading statements have shown companies performing reasonably well, so a spate of more negative updates also dented investor enthusiasm. |
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Operational problems with airlines further dented its reputation, prompting a rethink about what the island had to offer anyone who wanted more than to watch England play cricket every four years. |
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This positive spin was dented by sources talking to Politico. |
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Goa's long sandy beaches have long been a haven for millions of tourists drawn mostly from the West, but a string of controversial statements by local politicians has dented its tourist-friendly image. |
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The retail arm did not take a new provision for payment protection insurance – which has dented profits in the past – although there was a spike in claims in March. |
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You should never buy dented cans because bacteria might be able to get in. |
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Marilyn relates that this fine original fitting was dented by student lawyers who got truly stotious at a dinner and threwall their bedroom furniture down the stairwell. |
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I'm afraid I dented the wall pretty badly when I was hammering in that nail. |
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Thousands of motorists are leaving with more than their weekly shop, returning to their cars to discover they have been dented or pranged while left in car parks. |
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The rise of the Hindu Nationalist Shiv Sena and Bharatiya Janata Party in recent years have not dented Maratha representation in Maharashtra Legislative assembly. |
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It is the only building where the lights shine from windows at night, not far from the lopsided pup tents and dented cardboard boxes that sprout on sidewalks like mushrooms. |
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Also dented was Oregon's reputation, and the aura of unstoppability. |
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The team's confidence has been dented by a recent series of losses. |
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