At the same time, India's economic growth has also slowed sharply, denting consumer sentiment and demand.
Speculators often lose huge sums on commodity bets, rather denting their reputation for moving markets.
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Firstly her manager leaked the dancefloor denting Stuck On Repeat on a few blogs.
Last year the Fringe Society's online ticketing-system crashed, denting sales and the festival's reputation.
For four years, 1999-2002, much of rural India suffered from failed monsoons, seriously denting spending power.
Former Test umpire Darrell Hair believes the use of technology in cricket is denting the confidence of umpires.
Often, the fear of denting their capital in any way puts European investors off anything that seems risky.
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That would mean killing the property market, to say nothing of denting the pay of international lawyers and accountants.
Within Bahrain's government, hardline and moderate factions argue over how to resolve the conflict, which is badly denting the kingdom's image.
Yet the Afghan rebels also know that any open backing by Mr. Karzai's unpopular administration is likely to backfire, denting their movement's credibility.
Mahindra is introducing the car at a time when high fuel prices is one of the key reasons for denting demand for cars in India.
But since then, questions have been raised about the business model, while the eurozone debt crisis has been blamed for denting consumer demand for some of Groupon's deal.
Even so, why is the minimum wage not yet denting employment?
All this seems to be denting trust in business more generally.
Hamilton endured a frustrating 2012 campaign with five race retirements denting his title challenge, eventually having to settle for a fourth-place finish in the drivers' championship.
Spanish referee Luis Medina Cantalejo showed Deco a second yellow card for attempting to take a quick free-kick, denting any hope of a late comeback and compounding Chelsea's misery.
Ganguly took over the reigns of the team in 2000 at a time when Indian cricket was going through a bad phase with batting and match-fixing scandals denting its credibility.
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But regular corn-based ethanol is unlikely to be the fuel choice of American motorists anytime soon--not least because only so much farmland can be devoted to growing corn for ethanol without denting food production.
At the end of March, Mercedes-Benz, the group's German luxury carmaker, revealed that it would recall 1.3m vehicles to fix electrical faults, further denting a reputation for reliability that has suffered in recent years.
In addition to restrictions at airports and the WHO's travel warning, many countries have been urging their citizens to think twice before travelling to Asia, denting not just the region's tourist industry but also other activities.
Mr Bewley concludes that employers resist pay cuts largely because the savings from lower wages are usually outweighed by the cost of denting workers' morale: pay cuts hit workers' standard of living and lower their self-esteem.
Unfortunately, one drug that has been widely tipped as a treatment for the disease does not kill the SARS virus in a petri dish, seriously denting any hope that the drug will be effective at treating SARS in people.
To the extent that high oil prices played a role in the recessions of the early 1980s and 2008-09, the main reason is that oil-producing countries tend to have a lower marginal propensity to consume their income, denting global demand.
In Amazon's case, the problems were caused by a glitch that took longer than expected to resolve, affecting the operations of several internet firms (including Reddit, Quora, HootSuite and Foursquare) that use its services, and denting the reputations of all concerned as well as that of the cloud itself.
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