1. Her political opponents ran a whispering campaign against her.

2. Envious village elders would instigate whispering campaigns against them, or accuse them directly of witchcraft.

3. Alderson believes there has been a whispering campaign waged against new owners Steve Schott and Ken Hofmann.

4. It was the Cloggy episode which started the whispering campaign.

5. His business rivals started a whispering campaign against him.

6. When a 1989 Republican whispering campaign calling Democratic Speaker Tom Foley gay became too loud to ignore, it was denounced in the press as a "smear."

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