There are few issues so critical that fighting is better than discussion, or worth losing your own good standing for.

In the new climate, she had lost her social standing in the community.

The President is losing his standing in the international community.

If we are challenged then we must fight to the death or lose our standing.

I made the mistake of paying him for an idea once, and he quickly lost his amateur standing.

When this occurred, while they were no longer required to serve in the army, they also lost their political and economic standing.

Few are suggesting that Rochester will lose its standing as a research university.

But he has lost his standing as a moral authority.

In the late 1980's it also lost its longtime standing as a four-star hotel.

She would lose her standing as a priest and left the service.