"You should not consider this an impugning of your integrity or professionalism, Captain.

The chief engineer recoiled from what he inferred was an impugning of his motives.

Steve's ranting, racial slurs and impugning of Hostetler's honor finally drive the latter over the edge and he shoots himself.

Explicitly avoiding any impugning of the integrity of the civil servants, critics have argued that some form of outside body should be responsible for such functions.

Public sentiment, with good reason, has largely been cynical about the government's ability to investigate itself free from partisan rancor and the poisonous impugning of the integrity of prosecutors and the legitimacy of courts.

Her review just parrots the Kerry campaign's impugning of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, but offers no facts or analysis, and reflects no knowledge of the details revealed by actual investigators.

It's impossible to imagine Reagan countenancing the impugning of the patriotism of war heroes like John McCain and Max Cleland as the Bush machine has done in the heat of close campaigns.

Both the NYT and WP have run stories recently about the impugning of a collection of alleged JFK private papers that were being used for an ABC documentary and a Seymour Hersh book.

Some will be tempted to conclude that Mr. Ortega's return amounts to a revival of the cold war dynamic in the Western Hemisphere and, in particular, to a retrospective impugning of Reagan's policy in Central America.

Yes, the bishops are "called to teach the truth," he said, but "there should be no place in the Body of Christ for the brutality of partisan politics, the impugning of motives, or turning differences in pastoral judgment into fundamental disagreements on principle."

Although Jennens believed in one true faith and was ready to repudiate other faiths, there is nothing to suggest that he specifically repudiated Judaism, she added, and he "avoids direct impugning of the Jews by the use of Old Testament texts."

Mr. Blair responded angrily the next day, protesting the "impugning of his motives" and noting that he had supported Mr. Hague's predecessor, John Major, "through thick and thin" when Mr. Major was keeping contact with Sinn Fein.

Two days earlier, in another message, Mr. Westermann wrote to Mr. Fingar to say that "personal attacks, harassment and impugning of my integrity" by Mr. Bolton and Mr. Fleitz were "now affecting my work, my health and dedication to public service."

But the impugning of the opposition's patriotism began only two months after Sept. 11, when the Family Research Council ran ads in South Dakota likening Tom Daschle to Saddam Hussein because the Senate majority leader had opposed oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Still, his longstanding commitment to the intellectual defense of Israel and the consistent impugning of Palestinians - even as he will offer discrete criticisms of Israel - comes through clearly again, and makes him a disappointing choice to review Sari Nusseibeh's memoir, "Once Upon a Country" (April 1).

Since the future does not yet exist as anything more than a realm of abstract possibilities, it is no impugning of divine omniscience to claim that God does not know the future as a fixed and unalterable state of affairs: that he does not know what is not there to be known.

The government has tried its best to impugn the organization.

But when she spoke, her voice did not impugn him.

He looked like a man whose word of honor has just been impugned.

The part that would be most likely to get to him was hearing his wife impugned.

"I did not come here to have my character impugned," said the Major.

He faced her like a man who could not be impugned.

This is an attempt to impugn the character of a dead man.

To allow his reputation to be thus impugned was simply bad business.

"I will not stand by and let you be impugned.

Some guys really know how to impugn their friends' masculinity.

He was punished by the college for impugning her character.

This is the true rock of the Earth, too honest to be impugned.

Impugning an enemy's sexuality is the whole point of our course.

Some Jewish leaders have called on them to impugn the remarks.

I will not stand here and have my honor impugned!"

"Of course," it said, as though its integrity had been impugned.

I for one would never think of impugning your dignity."

But I really hope that you will refrain from impugning my integrity.

Still, Williams and the others did see their reputations impugned by some.

"They are ready at the drop of a hat to impugn his integrity."

Does everyone in the quadrant have to impugn my integrity?

"What they're really doing is impugning the strength and integrity of our own editors."

There's no reason to impugn the veracity of his statements.

If the anecdote became public, it would impugn the character of the player.

Some said it was unfair to impugn the son's character for the deeds of the father.