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Rangers folk have expended an awful lot of time and emotion analysing Chermiti since his £8m signing and the verdicts have been damning.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026

The conclusions of the judge coroner, Sir Adrian Fulford, so far have been damning.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2024

A total of three Malaysian courts have now found Najib guilty since the charges were first brought on in 2018, and their comments on the former premier's role have been damning.

From Reuters • Aug. 24, 2022

Recent academic studies about diversity in the film-criticism field have been damning — echoing the widespread denunciation of film studios for what many see as their systemic marginalization of women and people of color.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2018

Whatever it was it must have been damning evidence against him to have made him take so desperate a chance.'

From In the Fog by Davis, Richard Harding