"That could be a lasting, and damaging legacy," Mr. Leeds said.

Mr. Giuliani and the City Council need to avoid leaving such a damaging legacy.

In the damaging legacy of the 1980's, excessive speculation and borrowing will play a prominent role.

This kind of legal legerdemain is one of the most damaging legacies of the takeover binge of the 1980s.

On the domestic front, his most damaging legacy was to impose his rigid, intolerant interpretation of Islam on Pakistan.

The monarchy survived-for a while-but Louis XV left his successor with a damaging legacy of popular discontent.

Still, the most damaging legacy of Fannie Mae's years of unchecked growth may not be evident until the next significant economic slump.

In these circumstances it seemed that the most damaging legacy of Communism, the passivity of a people long denied control over their lives, was also their saving grace.

Welsh Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams stood up on a party political broadcast and told us, straightfaced, about the damaging legacy that Thatcherism had left Wales.

The damaging emotional legacy of traumatic events - being held as a prisoner of war, for example - is well established.