11.   Bird won convincingly despite a family legacy tarnished by scandal.

12.   Bruno Tassan Din, an Italian publisher who wielded huge influence until his reputation became tarnished by scandal, has died of a cerebral hemorrhage, newspapers reported Friday.

13.   Heavily burdened by rules and tarnished by scandals, Europe could finally undergo a political revival.

14.   Other refugee resettlement agencies are concerned that the scandal may tarnish their images and impair their missions.

15.   Over the past two years, a sex scandal has tarnished the arena.

16.   Scandals tarnished hundreds of other officials and lobbyists.

17.   She said she feared that the scandal would tarnish her own reputation.

18.   The Bird legacy also has been tarnished by scandals.

19.   The scandal badly tarnished the conservatives, already hurt by an earlier slush fund affair involving former Chancellor Helmut Kohl.

20.   The vast Elf scandal has tarnished the reputations of prominent French businessmen and politicians, including Roland Dumas.