Sentence examples for tainted goods from inspiring English sources

For many Nigerians, therefore, from the very beginning of his presidency he was tainted goods.

The most radiant object may be tainted goods; dealing can have unsavory ethical dimensions.

He thanks her and sips it with relish; the knowledge that it is tainted goods has vanished, like froth, from the surface of his brain.

"We never used to say 'reduced' in a very strong market because we felt people would think of it as tainted goods," said Deanna Kory, a senior vice president at Corcoran.

An "action plan" on import safety was started by President Bush last month, calling for greater efforts to prevent tainted goods from American trade partners, improved certification of imports and American training to help other countries build safety inspection capabilities.

As he points out in this meditation on our wonderful world of technology and the troubling economic imbalances that underlie it, any number of other electronic gizmos filling up our homes and taking up our time are similarly morally tainted goods.

Used, tainted commodity.

American companies such as Mattel, a toy company, have also discovered that their brand names can be tainted if goods made by overseas suppliers (particularly from China) turn out to be bad for consumers' health.The problem could be called the "fragility of perfection".

By 6 on Friday morning, the lines at the sports radio station WEEI, Boston's equivalent of New York's WFAN, were jammed with breast-beating callers, phoning in to say that the Sox World Series victories in 2004 and 2007 were tainted — too good to be true, and now a source of shame.

There is not one good reason to let it taint your good cooking.

Perhaps some explanation can be found in the fact that we import masses of poultry, fruit and vegetables from Thailand – goods "tainted by slavery", Hall says.