After three months of the campaign, no candidate has seriously dented Mr. Fujimori's support, despite opposition charges that the Peruvian Government is bankrolling Mr. Fujimori's reelection campaign.

The fortunes of the original Hannays of Sorbie were seriously dented in the seventeenth century when a long running feud with the powerful Clan Murray of Broughton resulted in the Hannays being outlawed.

Whatever the outcome of the case, the charge has seriously dented Mr. Tapie's political career, which began in the late 1980's on a platform of outspoken opposition to the xenophobic, extreme right-wing National Front.

Libya's assertion that it is only helping Chadian rebels has been seriously dented in recent months by the defection in mysterious circumstances of its main Chadian ally.

The total write-down on £102.7m would have seriously dented Trafalgar's £122.4m of pre-tax profits for 1991.

The amount of confidence end-users have in the figures has been seriously dented after last year's performance.

Tourism in Japan was dented seriously in the aftermath of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, a situation worsened by the nuclear fall out at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Above them loomed Marksburg, a 12th-century castle, the lone one on the Rhine that remained entirely intact, never seriously dented even by American bombers during World War II.

For this reason, special attention should be paid to ensuring that negative effects of the kind seen in the past no longer arise, where public confidence in products of animal origin is seriously dented, with damaging consequences for the economy.

But there must be musical importance to Schubert's homosexuality (which I take as fact unless Maynard Solomon's persuasive 1989 paper on this issue in the journal 19th Century Music is seriously dented by scholars).