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But the industry and the governments keen to promote it look like repeating some of the mistakes that gave it a bad name in the first place.

Wolstencroft really wasn't such a bad name after all they both decided as they whirled around the Christmas tree at the front of the store.

the single-mindedly ambitious people have done to ambition--given it a bad name.

I don't mean to be harsh, but I don't want you to go around giving Blondes a bad name.

Such a fight would give activist investors even more of a bad name than they already have in corporate Europe.

The UK's former Information Commissioner Richard Thomas said the case gave privacy laws a "bad name" .

Yeah, but what you do there reflects on me. If you screw up it really gives me a bad name.

GETTING rid of a bad name is difficult; but a consistent message can do it, as Ben Bernanke has proved.

Barbering bigwigs worry that the lack of compulsory licensing in Britain keeps standards down and gives the craft a bad name.

What these guys have done, as some have already suggested, is to give bloggers and chatrooms a bad name.

The last thing that you want to do is get a bad name for yourself instead of compliments.

Give a dog a bad name and hang him is true in George's case. For no one ever has a good word to say for him now.

The Milking Newcastle group said that although they understand the concerns of Mr Stone, the intent was not to give students a bad name.

It is the kind of roller-coaster ride that gives Chinese stock investing a bad name.

They're throwing me in a class with a bad name.

But some that have been active in the offshore market are giving the asset class a bad name.

That is the sort of foot-dragging that gives gradualism a bad name.

Marston: I got me one of them idiots who give marshals a bad name.

Attempts to sneak in behavioural-targeting systems through the back door could give a promising idea a bad name.

a shop that treats its customers badly, as it gives their product a bad name too.

"Well, okay, but if he is tortured in Libya, it will give us a bad name" , said another participant.

More than seven in ten people (71%) believe that the attacks have given Islam a bad name.

In fact, "toothbrush" is actually a bad name, because your brushing should include your gums.

The second thing to lament about the current apology for a debate is that it is giving the idea of controlling health-care costs a bad name.

This notion got a bad name with the embargo of Iraq.

This gave kabuki a bad name and eventually led in 1629 to women being banned from performing in theaters.

An egg cannot eat to the full, a bad name back to the old.

This kind of stabbing in the back gives journalism a bad name.

Political radicalism has a bad name in Nigeria, and not only when it threatens entrenched interests.

Some Kalenjin feel that Mr Moi and Mr Ruto gave their group a bad name.

On the web, similar "aggregator" sites, personalised or not, have a bad name as freeloaders that create no content of their own.

The credit crisis of 2008-09 has given a bad name to open capital inflows.

Impatience, jumping the queue, poor table manners? these are just some of the Chinese tourists' habits that are giving China a bad name.

That kind of car has a bad name among motorists.

Relational Databases have recently been getting a bad name because they cannot scale well to support massive web services.

They got a bad name when Milken went to prison for securities fraud.

I think they've gone too far. They give Korean colleges a bad name.

It's the same with boredom, which also has a bad name.

These days Orientalism has a bad name.

By the way, she gives loser a BAD NAME, too.

A bad name is indicative of the type of people you will be working with.

99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

It is where hypocrisy first gained a bad name.

It'll give us bad P. R. 13. You're giving us a bad name.

You Give Love a Bad Name: One milliliter of saliva contains about 100, 000, 000 bacteria.

I was giving arms dealers a bad name.

A bad name will hang to him.

Your mistakes in the job gave our company a bad name.

Whose life is it, anyway? Suicide has been given a bad name in human societies, by association.

So, do you think that a bad name brings some effects on his life?

But LBO became a bad name.

Trade and globalisation have a bad name in America.

Made a bad name for my game around town

its slow service gave the restaurant a bad name

No, it's not like when someone calls you a bad name

Slippery When Wet YOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME

Darlin' you give love a bad name

Hey, you give love a bad name

A bad name that has stuck

give sb. a bad name

You give love a bad name-Bon Jovi