Exempel på taint

• His first term of office was tainted by scandal.

• We don't want people out there tainting our reputation.

• It was found that the groundwater had been tainted with a string of toxins.

• People caught with less than an ounce of marijuana might avoid the taint of a criminal record.

• The air bore the taint of oily air-conditioning.

• As deaths among those taking the drug mounted, the FDA discovered the taint and banned the contaminated drug.

• On the other hand, purists felt that such commercialization tainted the true pursuit of natural philosophy.

• Released from its own taint, prenatal testing could more effectively facilitate women's reproductive freedom and the many important ways that freedom ramifies through women's lives.

• Unlike poverty, disability is seen as a taint that is difficult or impossible to purge.

• The work of their predecessors was tainted, either by censorship of what they wrote or - more seriously - by political control of the basic research itself.

• The reputation of the violin was tainted by its connection with travelling musicians.

• For some people, the symbol of the nation, the dynasty, was threatened and in danger of becoming tainted.

• It was tainted by association with small farmers and commoners, and was a nuisance to estate proprietors.

• They are a reflection of the perpetrators' self-image based on the desire for exculpation and tainted by retrospection.

• No hint of dishonesty, let alone criminality, had ever tainted the family.

• First, there were those who considered children to be 'little devils', tainted by original sin.

• Rainwater drained from the hut roofs into tanks was sometimes tainted with salt and fragments of seaweed after gales.

• All art in the novel, including this phase of charitable art, is tainted by its association with treacherous fashionable society.

• If this is the case, the shareholders' (pensioners) consent to rules voted by pension fund managers is ' tainted ' by a conflict of interest.

• There's also as construct to convert tainted data to un-tainted form so that dangerous functions can be used on it.

• The feeling that all doubtful subjects were tainted by association with each other was very strong among scientists.