But Mr. Zedillo was also held responsible by many analysts for Mr. Colosio's difficulty in generating public enthusiasm and articulating a message of change after the Chiapas rebellion badly soiled the image of Mr. Salinas's administration.

But rapidly getting badly soiled.

His eyes were on the white priest-clothes of Hund, now badly soiled, and the Ithun-apple that hung round his neck.

The Punics turned dirty, their clothing badly soiled, their faces and arms gunked with grease and mud and sand.

One of his soldiers, Georgia volunteer William Andrews, wrote that Jackson was "a very ordinary looking man of medium size, his uniform badly soiled as though it had seen hard service.

Her white dress, a smock really, was torn and badly soiled.

In November 2009, the Care Quality Commission found some places in Basildon Hospital to have stained floors and curtains, blood-splattered trays, badly soiled mattresses, equipment still used after the use-by date, and so on.

The U.C.L.A. coach's reputation would have been soiled badly with a loss, but instead the afternoon left him reminiscing about Jim Valvano, Christian Laettner, Jerry West and the Fab Five.