Sentences with phrase «taint of»

The dining table has to be the centerpiece furniture in your dining room which will provide sophistry, elegance and style without any taint of inexpensiveness in its quality and design.

By the time you lower the price, your home will have the taint of being a languisher.

The complaints led to the PWGSC determining that the contract should be re-tendered «to remove any taint of conflict of interest in this contract award».

CITT recommended that PWGSC re-evaluate sections of the bidding procedure; after an internal investigation, PWGSC decided to re-tender the contracts, «to remove any taint of conflict of interest».

In that decision, he remarked on the devastating effect the sexual assault trial will have on both the victim and the accused: for the victim, the humiliating prospect of describing her most intimate details and, for the accused, the prospect of a long period of incarceration if convicted and, if acquitted, the taint of being suspected of such a horrific crime.

It is prudent for a tribunal not to express any opinion about the possible outcome of a rehearing to avoid any taint of pre-judging the case.

That protocol would remove the Gov. from the taint of packing the court that is to hear any case concerning the Governor in a personal matter.5) Policy for Restoring Civil Rights to Felons: We suggest the Governor change the policy of the last administration which greatly restricted the restoration of civil rights to felons.

Lobbyists, under current federal rules, must observe a two - year «cooling off period» before the taint of their prior activities is considered to have abated.

Figure out a way that Feyissa won't have to suffer the taint of student ethical bravado for the rest of his life.

If CRU personnel didn't actually do anything unethical then your complaint - «Does this kind of behavior taint all of the sciences?»

Does this kind of behavior taint all of the sciences?

Or worse, why the (occasional) blind dismissal of anything bearing the taint of «modeling»?

This is what leads someone to pathetically try to smear Mann with the taint of pedophilia; the ends justify any means.

Some have named Edward a traitor in taint of treason.

On the contrary, said Gautier, they must avoid the taint of that and every other public service, for «there is nothing really beautiful,» he insisted, «save what is of no possible use.»

The black mark on our skin reflects the taint of BP on Tate.»

That said, the evening did not have the taint of insider privilege either.

Yeah, I'm fully aware that RIFT suffers from the perceived taint of Trion Worlds» business model handling.

Surfing conditions were clean and glassy with just a slight taint of off shore breeze.

They are sensitive to the taste of water; some dislike the chlorine taint of tap - water so let tap water stand for a while, or use filtered or mineral water.

The blue taint of the product fades progressively after its application on the scratching post.

Don't let unnecessary stress over this very natural, uncomplicated process taint any of the joy surrounding the puppy training process and your new dog's puppyhood.

I do not know if there is anyway to encapsulate how the world would be without the taint of war.

I prefer the term «indie - published» because it avoids the taint of the «vanity press» that people associate with self - publishing.

The main structures of U.S. public education date to the 19th Century, when individual towns paid essentially all the costs of operating whatever schools they had, and to the progressive era, when it was deemed important to «keep education out of politics» so as to avoid the taint of patronage and partisanship.

No matter what the aggregate numbers demonstrate, imposing a nationwide policy would certainly compromise the operation of schools that have no taint of any purported civil - rights violation.

Both factions would like to remove the taint of federal influence from state - based reform.

Race is a political grouping created to support slavery and colonialism, and its boundary lines have shifted over time and across nations to suit political ends... For the last three centuries, science... has been instrumental in justifying the concept of biological races — and this century's genomic science is no different... Despite the scientific and political evidence, some scientists are attempting to modernize the myth that race is a biological category... What's new is that today's racial science claims to divide human beings into natural groups with more accurate precision and without the taint of racism.»

In so doing, it draws the link between survival and loyalty and friendship in the sharpest possible terms — the film is an exercise in primitivism that rings with the taint of simple but essential truths.

Cimino made four more movies after «Heaven's Gate,» 1985's «Year of the Dragon,» 1987's «The Sicilian,» 1990's «Desperate Hours» and 1996's «Sunchaser,» but none received the critical acclaim or box office success of his earlier work, due in part to the taint of «Heaven's Gate.»

Unfortunately, no place on Earth is immune to the spreading taint of growth and development.

Guadagno battled unsuccessfully to escape the taint of Governor Chris Christie, wildly unpopular in the wake of the Bridgegate scandal that came to light after his 2013 reelection and his obsequious devotion to Trump once the president's nomination became clear last year.

But Mr. Espaillat himself — even after the New York Post reported last year that the FBI was questioning how he funded a favored nonprofit — has avoided the taint of corruption.

The Hevesi chapter may be ending, but the taint of corruption on this once proud office remains,» Wilson said in a statement.

The Citizens» Election Program was Connecticut's landmark effort, passed in 2006, to remove the taint of special - interest money from elections and to level the playing field for candidates through voluntary public financing of political campaigns.

And they have taken swift steps to rid the school of the taint of scandal, forcing the departure of a handful of top executives within Kaloyeros» inner circle and hiring an outsider as its new interim leader, Bahgat Sammakia, a well - respected researcher and administrator from Binghamton University.

While their status and longevity in the political process makes them known quantities — especially to the party players who will help get them on the ballot at the convention — the taint of Albany is going to be hard to shake, particularly at a time when disgust with the Capitol and anti-incumbent sentiment is running so high.

Weaknesses: Mr. Heastie doesn't have the taint of corruption, but his name did show up in Moreland Commission documents released last year.

«As The New York Times wrote this morning: `... nothing is so radioactive in the precincts of New York as the taint of Wall Street ties.»

Many have, wrongly in my view, supported the draconian desecration of the temples of justice that the DSS invasion of judges homes in the dead of night represented, but the lesson for our Lords must be that they must urgently clean up the bench and ensure the bar is cleaned up otherwise they may allow the taint of corruption be used by those with an authoritarian agenda to destroy the concept of an independent judiciary in this country.

Important matters determined by the give and take of the closed door budget negotiations carries with it the taint of something underhanded.

Sampson rose to power thanks to the dysfunction of the Democratic conference at the height of last summer's Senate coup / stalemate and has been trying mightily to shake off the taint of that experience ever since.

The cost for Remain of recruiting Death, Plague, Famine and War to their cause is measured in credibility: that not only will the exaggerated be discounted by the public but so, by taint of association, will the legitimate.

Scottish Labour must be rebuilt from the ground up, free from the taint of machine politics and the legacy of the misjudgements of the last Labour government.

Voters abandoned him because of the taint of corruption.

GDS tackled the overweening power of the huge firms that have dominated government IT in the past, and has given smaller departments and agencies the confidence to undertake some projects themselves, bringing expertise back in - house, embracing open source, and washing away some of the taint of failure from previous government IT projects.

Moreover, any post-election deal will have the taint of anti-democratic arrogance unless the parties have given some idea of how they would react to an indecisive result.

He says, unless outside income is banned, «in the 21st Century, it's virtually impossible to ensure that there's no taint of any kind».

Zaino said one of Killian's strategies has been to tie Mayer to the taint of corruption that permeates Albany.

It seems to me that, back here in Britain, there are two significant challenges facing the lobbying industry: the continuing taint of sleaze associated with the very idea of winning influence in the corridors of power, compounded by periodic scandals, and the terribly lumpy quality of the service.