Sentence examples for tainted like from inspiring English sources
But it's sad that it has to be tainted like it is right now.
But soon afterward, as the lawsuits mounted, Bendectin became tainted like thalidomide, the sedative that caused horrific birth defects when women took it early in pregnancy.
Now, Ortiz might be innocent, or might be tainted like Bonds and Rodriguez, but even if he were guilty, it's not entirely certain that it would matter much in Boston.
She added: "I always thought of the money I earned from 'What's Up' as being tainted, like I didn't deserve it, so I spent it as quickly as it came in.
The broad hope here — expressed in every newspaper editorial, politician's speech and citizen's plea — is that this potential anchor, Vice Chancellor Attahiru Jega of Bayero University, Kano, can somehow straighten out the mess and deliver not only a voter list, but also an electoral tally that is not tainted like the previous ones over the 11 years since Nigeria returned to civilian rule.
Some people who have been groomed feel "tainted", like certain things become weaknesses such as natural kindness or willingness to trust, because they were used against them.
Those verdicts have now been shown to be tainted, somewhat like the verdict in Mesarosh v. United States, 352 U.S. 1, 77 S.Ct. 1, 1 L.Ed.2d 1956956).
Doers and doings in business, entertainment and technology: Billionaire investor Warren Buffett Warren Buffett, who warned of boardroom shenanigans before accounting scandals tainted companies like Enron and WorldCom, called on chief executives to straighten up and fly right in his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders Saturday.
"That money they earn is tainted, just like their statistics are.
"The government uses tainted people like Cohen all the time — just look at Rick Gates, Rosenzweigg said.
So, as North explains it, if a van full of children is trafficked in 2008 to work on a cocoa farm, the monitoring process could note it and this note could be certified and verified without any requirement for corrective action -- no requirement for stopping the forced labor, or for alerting consumers that the cocoa/chocolate they are buying is tainted by slave-like practices.
