But candidates can prevent damaging publicity if they correct themselves or rethink an ill-considered response.

I had to give you a reasonable explanation, to avoid damaging publicity.

After three resignations and a week of damaging publicity, St Paul's has a chance to act as if it understood how people are seeing it.

The cause of some of the church's most damaging publicity had to do with the church's policy of discrimination toward blacks.

He also testified that he thought the grand jury investigation was nothing more than an attempt to spark damaging publicity.

Amid damaging publicity, the company appealed but settled out of court.

You know how damaging publicity can be, even to an innocent bystander.

Lawsuits and damaging publicity would go on for years.

He gets nothing out of this except an end to damaging publicity about the boat people.

Analysts think the oil giant needs to take dramatic action to counter the damaging publicity and restore investor confidence.