So caps on donations to individual candidates make sense: a "financial quid pro quo", or appearance thereof, taints a $1m cheque to someone running for Congress.
Corruption is the poison that taints almost all institutions capable of making Nigeria work well.
He gives flesh to the notion that the victim eventually becomes the aggressor; that life taints and ruins, rather than redeems.The dirt of the title represents the final, violent sequence between Galen and his mother.
Nothing, perhaps not even drugs, taints a contest as much as the suspicion that it has been fixed with an envelope full of notes.
Final beneficial ownership is impossible for an outsider to establish.All this means that the syndicate taints China's "going out" policy, a cornerstone of the country's rise in recent years.
There, a botched election last week and doubts over the country's readiness to join the EU in 2007 are letting light into a system of government enmeshed in webs of clientelism and corruption extending from the ruling socialist party, whose bosses have held or shared power for ten of the past 14 years.Corruption taints Baltic politics too, especially in Latvia and Lithuania.
With each new revelation that taints the armed forces, ever more Turks fret that the army may be undermining the state.This week General Ilker Basbug, the chief of the general staff, admitted that the raids on the Special Forces Command were carried out within the law.
New parties often flourish in Latvia until the messy business of fund-raising taints their image.
Graft taints much of the dealmaking.
To this day this taints many of them in the eyes of Iraqis.
There might be a riot, too, if the show taints the legacy of a much-loved book and film.
