The children of habitual opium-eaters or narcotists inherit an unmistakable taint. |
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Horse riding suffers from the taint of elitism and snobbery which is a legacy of the past. |
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If we aimed for equality only to avoid the taint of partiality or discrimination, there would be no case for correcting the result. |
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The man has a talent for spewing highfalutin drivel, and it can taint his otherwise engaging records. |
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The financing of political activity and membership of parliament should be both open to scrutiny and free of any taint of special favour. |
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Obviously, schools are unwilling to risk employing individuals who might carry the taint of suspicion, even if it is unfounded. |
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Only if racing is conducted free of the taint of corruption will the sport survive and prosper. |
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You probably know this, but Rousseau argues that we're all born good, without taint of sin, and society inexorably corrupts us. |
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While such a grand opening establishes Tripper's orchestral sweep, the rustic harmonium that follows dismisses any taint of pretension. |
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Still, Channel 5's current approach to the news is less noticeable for ideological taint than sheer banality. |
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To deprive humans of even one emotion would taint the stability of balance. |
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It is sad that the taint of financial jiggery-pokery should besmirch Salmond's image as he leaves office, and very unfair. |
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The paramount reason for the move away from cork is the problem of cork taint. |
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The taint of uncertainty and danger in the region, while it remains, will continue to have a negative effect on investor sentiment. |
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They can't wash out the taint of that cynicism and infamy no matter how much they try and no matter how loud they yell. |
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The three tracks featured here taint an otherwise spotless collection of candyfloss pop. |
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It is sad that the taint of financial jiggery-pokery should besmirch his image as he leaves office, and very unfair. |
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Nevertheless, she's skeptical that new guidelines will free the public system of the taint of private interest. |
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In context though, the trite lyrics never taint the record's abundant qualities. |
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Most importantly, as a place to write music, a console doesn't have that taint of school or music-lesson. |
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It would be wise for the ruling party to remember that it is not completely free of the taint of corruption. |
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All of the farmers whose stories appear here purchased their farms under the present regime, free of any taint of colonialism. |
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Small dashes of bright primary and secondary colour taint the heavier earth tones, but recede into the moody hues of the whole at a distance. |
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Hannah picked, noticing how the tone of her voice had taken a sort of offensive taint. |
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I asked him if Bollinger would ever eschew corks for crown caps, to avoid the cork taint so pervasive in the wine industry. |
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The three sculptures on show have a macabre taint but, in each piece, the nightmarish quality resonates at a different pitch. |
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I don't want people saying we ineligibly won the league our first year and taint any kind of victory. |
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But we're also talking about a hometown paper with the rookie Senator from New York up to her elbows in scandal taint herself. |
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A thunderous roar rent the arrow's howling passage, the sound carrying the taint of pain. |
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It must stop exalting its own worst excesses and re-invent itself as a cultural organisation free of the taint of sectarian triumphalism. |
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One wants to keep this area, as it were, as free of taint as far as one can. |
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As always, she was dressed plainly in a black garment that shifted unnaturally, almost as if the touch of her skin would leave some dread taint. |
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Right now, the judge has got to see that there's a possibility of some taint to this jury pool. |
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What's being to protect our foodstuffs against taint and what can we expect to be the symptoms of such a thing? |
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What its creative accounting can't do, though, is wash the taint off the network following this little advertising stunt. |
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Jung says the company hasn't suffered any taint from scandals elsewhere. |
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In the end it was the taint of sleaze that destroyed his reputation. |
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Castration is demanded principally to avoid boar taint which occurs at about 90kg or heavier. |
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Even freed slaves carry the taint of their hereditary status, and their former masters or parents' masters may claim some or all of their income, property and dowries. |
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The Dreyfusards were afraid that this would taint their cause, but Zola refused to send them away. |
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I do not want to taint all owners of guns that way but it was one of the places where we could have done better as a government. |
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However, the payment of a fee by the subsidiary with respect to that guarantee might taint the trust. |
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Not the slightest taint of guilt must fall upon the revolutionary internationalists. |
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Some manufacturers taint their products to try to make them less appealing to use as inhalants, but this has not prevented use. |
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Any society based on terrorism already bears the taint of violence within itself. |
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Honey shall not have any objectionable matter, flavour, aroma, or taint absorbed from foreign matter during its processing and storage. |
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Any putative alternative to the present government will need to keep its pedigree pure and free from the taint of unsavoury associations. |
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Although a later assessment may reflect correct information, erroneous information can remain in the file and may taint future assessments. |
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It is unfair to let depression taint a child's outlook on life during their formative years. |
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The audience effectively gets stuck in the panic on the rock face, watching helplessly as Peter makes a life-altering decision that will taint relations with his sister. |
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The aims of the school were to produce a new stratum of leading communist party cadres, young, proletarian, disciplined, and free of the taint of reformism. |
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Perhaps Elie avoided this approach in order to give priority to his subjects' biographies and avoid any taint of academicism, both of which are commendable aims. |
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The speed of his decision to withdraw the whip reflects the determination of the Tory leader that the party should not be affected by any taint of racism. |
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And like the papacy, Penn State was terrified of what might happen should a scandal taint its sainted image. |
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The affable John Southworth registers his discontent mildly yet emphatically, his soft British accent shading the offending phrase with the damning taint of dismissiveness. |
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Can our motives taint our otherwise lawful acts of ownership? |
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Many Scottish Criminal Records Office staff also support such an inquiry so that, by identifying the guilty, the taint of suspicion can be lifted from the innocent. |
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And therefore, Dorothy Dunnett is absolved of any taint of anachronism. |
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Two decades on, Wednesdays, for me, still carry the unwelcome taint of gym class and I hate being so far away from managing what other people seem to find so simple. |
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Although Luna Papa strives for a balance of laughs and drama, the taint of human cruelty and violence is so strong that many of the comedic elements feel forced. |
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In 1948 he and a group of friends from his rarefied social circle started Mad River Glen about 25 miles away, vowing to preserve their creation from all taint of vulgarity. |
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There was a taint of black spot within the clear white crystal. |
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I feel contaminated by it, almost as if it's a taint upon my soul. |
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If the fever did not kill him, this magical taint surely would! |
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But what is a taint at the Centre is not a taint in the States. |
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Pollution from Asia can taint the air along the West Coast of the U.S., said scientists on Friday at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. |
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Strains of resistant bacteria and viruses are grown and spread through overuse of antibiotics, and growth hormones taint the meat and cause deformities. |
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When ice is covered, odors will accumulate and the food will taint. |
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Yet sometimes the occasional tarnish can be a pleasing taint. |
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Whether the charge will work to sufficiently taint Orman is another issue, says Popkin. |
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He manages his household with a mind free from the taint of meanness. |
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The absence of any hint of illicit sexuality or even of Egyptian sensuality suggests the way in which Cleopatra's willingness to die cleanses her from sexual taint. |
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Nixon carried the taint of a perpetual candidate who had lost high-profile races. |
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For extra payment, undertakers began to offer wealthier people new facilities without the taint of the public mortuary to store their dead away from home. |
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Nor do we taint John Le Carre's understated brilliance with the unpalatable thought that Jeffrey Archer is forever trying helplessly to write in roughly the same genre. |
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It has the taint of the louche, as did its forebear, the nautch show. |
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I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood. |
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It is the taint of Eton that makes him ineligible to lead the Tory Party, in the view of some who believe that counterfeiting Blairism is the road to power. |
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But as they help a local government increase its capacity, they need to be careful that their support not be seen as purely self-interested and taint the local authorities. |
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Ten years later, the social level of Marigold's attachments may have risen a little – the fees at St Brynhilda's start at £15,000 a year – but the taint of undesirability remains. |
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But more and more now know that it actually refers to mustiness or cheesiness in the wine, with overtones of vegetable rot or old socks, caused by a taint which can be traced to 2,4,6-trichloroanisole. |
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The respect and confidence inspired by this impartiality therefore naturally require that judges be shielded from tumult and controversy that may taint the perception of impartiality to which their conduct must give rise. |
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Likewise, it is important for the Kosovo authorities to take a clear stance on inter-community incidents, which continue to taint the atmosphere in the province. |
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I will not speak of our orthography unfortunately set in ignorance and absurdity by XVIIth century pedants, and which has not ceased to exasperate the stranger and to taint the pronunciation of our words. |
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The techniques involved in winemaking can impact the amount of smoke taint in the product caused by exposing the grapes to smoke. |
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But improvements in membrane technology have made them an increasingly popular choice for removing microorganisms, particulates, and natural organic materials that foul water's taste and taint its clarity. |
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It is crucial that nothing taint these relationships. |
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Products subject to filth, taint or contamination should be rejected. |
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But he also carries the taint of failed Majorism and is not exactly famous for his warmth and popular touch. |
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The act of lobbying, unfortunately, has kind of a negative taint to it. |
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Certain professors see a chance to benefit from this associative taint. |
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Did you know that guy has absolutely no tan lines? He'll show his taint to prove it! |
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He had inherited from his parents a scrofulous taint, which it was beyond the power of medicine to remove. |
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From the routine purchase of bond paper to the bidding of the major government infrastructure projects, to the hiring of consultants, nothing passes without a taint, or an envelope changing hands. |
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The region's own beleaguered reformists, who had feared that too strong an American flavour could taint their own efforts, will welcome this week's endorsement by other powers. |
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Random spot checks, so that getting checked carries no taint. |
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There have been many attempts to devise ways of detecting TCA, but cork taint remains a huge, if not literal, headache for the wine industry. |
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The party's high command would prefer if the embattled Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, leads Fianna Fail into the expected disaster rather than a taint a new, fresh leader with the mark of defeat. |
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Corked wine has cork taint, which is a reaction to chemicals which have reached the wine via the cork. |
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For example, someone convicted for simple possession of marijuana does not, by that fact alone, taint his or her divorce proceedings with the risk of high conflict. |
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The Copenhagen Summit provides an opportunity to end this ambiguity, which, if it is not resolved, will seriously taint relations between Turkey and the Member States for a long time to come. |
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The two senators have been tripping over each other to distance themselves from the taint of Beltway insiderdom. |
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The excuse for the nutty rebuilding that follows storms is always increased safety, but greed and newfangleness taint our efforts at reconstruction. |
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Previous studies on cork taint in wine have shown that even though wine drinkers tasted the cork taint, they did not necessarily find the wine objectionable. |
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Cork taint can give wine a musty or nasty taste, resulting in waste. |
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It did not have any taint of criminality and the whole of the south coast had pockets vying with one another over whose smugglers were the darkest or most daring. |
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We're checking for cork taint, a nasty little fungus that'll murder your wine and leave it smelling like it was killed and left in a bin bag full of Stilton, leave it to us. |
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As a result, Nomacorc closures provide consistent, predictable oxygen management and protect against off-flavors due to oxidation, reduction or cork taint. |
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Once successfully in, I can see my hash 160 and Taint Analysis, among other things. |
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