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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Now, Indian officials say those allegations could be true, denting the party's chances of a comeback.
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.
The gain is denting the morale of Hamas, the self-confidence of its commanders and its image.
For four years, 1999-2002, much of rural India suffered from failed monsoons, seriously denting spending power.
Further, the pornographic e-mails that clog up chatrooms are further denting Microsoft's reputation for software security.
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.
This required a serious and ego-denting re-evaluation of the country's historical as well as present-day role at the head of a colonial empire.
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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.
Police officials testifying in the House of Lords cross-party parliamentary group investigating the issue said that the existing criminal sanctions for drug users is not nearly denting their use.
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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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Moreover, two powerful insurgent mouthpieces one Sunni Muslim, one Shia have been saying they will boycott the conference, denting hopes that it could serve as a channel for rebels to rejoin the mainstream.
The sahwi school has attracted many young Saudis with its blend of Wahhabism and political activism though, since their release, the two sheikhs have been partly co-opted by the state, denting their street credibility.
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.
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