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It had become a byword for reckless lending , offering home loans of up to 125% and borrowing heavily on the international money markets.

Just as Cadillac used to be synonymous with luxury and BMW with sportiness, Toyota was a byword for quality and reliability.

The name of Figs, which had been a byword of reproach, became as respectable and popular a nickname as any other in use in the school.

Even more impressively, a region which had become a byword for financial instability mostly sailed through the recent recession.

The bank has been a byword for sound lending (see chart).

Under Jobs, the company has gone from strength to strength, establishing itself as a byword for innovation and elegant design.

Over almost a century and a half, Brooks England has grown from a small workshop to a byword in quality craftsmanship.

George Rood, conscious that he need not exhibit a brilliancy which was almost a byword , opened his mouth only to put food into it .

Girls Do not Cry is her pledge to release to the most perfect state, it is proved that the tears she is no longer a byword sad.

God has made me a byword to everyone, a man in whose face people spit .

This success made Daqing a byword for industrial zeal and heroic self-sacrifice in the name of the revolution.

Positive such as a byword words for spread in the United States: " Want ~only hard, the cowboy also can be the president. "

ONCE a byword for state-run inefficiency, Telstra is now famous instead for corporate belligerence and executive arrogance.

Chaos in world markets has clearly made Beijing feel vindicated in its belief that caution should be the byword of equity market regulators.

Beware though, 'emerging' isn't just a byword for growth.

The general's name had become a byword for cruelty in war.

This has brought new and more effective leadership into a business that was a byword for bad management.

His cowardice made him a byword to all who knew him.

Back then, Liberia was a byword for uncontrolled and environmentally devastating logging.

He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

For the broad mass of the European electorate, "Europe" has become a byword for unpopular and painful economic restructuring.

AT HOME and abroad, China is a byword for fast-track development, where yesterday's paddy field is tomorrow's factory, highway or hotel.

It was a byword. Any time anybody wrote a popular article about music in the 1860s, they had to mention Babbage.

Enron was turned into books, films, a play and a byword for fiduciary failings and fraud.

This place was once a byword for poverty, sitting as it does in the middle of Brazil's drylands.

The Praetorian Guard have become a byword for any military force which is used to prop up a ruthless regime.

Don McCullin, a byword for courage as well as awesome photography, suffered a bad thigh wound in Cambodia in 1970.

The Flat Earth Society has become a byword for sticking your head in the sand, whatever the scientific facts.

The eccentric poet was a byword in literary circles.

You have made us a byword among the nations; the peoples shake their heads at us.

It has become a byword for spiralling costs and delays.

Stress has become the byword for a spreading anxiety.

Caution is likely to remain the byword for some time to come.

looks destined to go down as either a prophet or a byword for political villainy.

In bubble-era Japan, a byword for manic real estate speculation, apartment prices peaked at 12-15 times average household income.

The industry became a byword for mendacity, secrecy and profligacy with taxpayers' money.

IN THE 1960s, when Japan emerged as a manufacturing exporter, it soon became a byword for low cost and low quality.

An English byword "A picture paints a thousand words" is very appropriate to use here, just look at the photos.

It's a byword for lazy, slacker, for being somebody who gives up.

Today, the can is an impressive package that is a byword for quality and content protection.

Diamonds, a byword for luxury, are not forever.

Half a century later GM is a byword for poor management.

And now their sons mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.

His name became a byword for excellence in Saskatchewar hunting circles.

Aids has become the byword of death.

Now I am turned into their song, and am become their byword.

For all who knew him, "Ask Herman" became a byword.

Shanxi had become a byword for the dark side of China's economic rise after a stream of accidents at coal mines;

the soldier ' s name was a byword for bravery

byword: a person or thing that is a well-known or typical example of a particular quality

her name has become a byword for integrity