And if he does not, it will be a taint that will be hard to erase.
Another consideration is that active defense may taint the evidence needed for an investigation.
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The NFL will have to work overtime to escape the taint and keep its sport clean.
The taint of drugs has already robbed this year's race of its defending champion.
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They don't use government textbooks to avoid any taint of being associated with Mr. Karzai's administration.
Even if Landis is ultimately exonerated, he knows the taint of yesterday's announcement will follow him.
Credible complaints that votes were bought in the countryside barely managed to taint his victory.
To avoid further taint, the U.S. sent a delegation to strike the compromise reached late Thursday.
Likewise, the central command in Afghanistan is not helped by the taint of scandal.
What we do is ethereal so why do we need to taint it with confusing, mundane legalese?
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Some feared that immersion in worldly affairs would taint clerics and end by repelling believers from the faith.
Indeed, in the roles I have held, any such taint would be an instant career-ender, and for good reason.
She told me that it has ruined her freshman year -- and will likely taint her entire college experience.
But the scandal will taint the Bolkiah name and could dilute the clan's absolute hold on the oil-rich country.
After the accounting mischief at Fannie Mae the term "government-sponsored enterprise" has a bit of a taint to it.
Amid surging oil prices and talk of fossil fuels running out, nukes have lost a lot of their taint.
Stansky goes to great lengths in Magellan's semiannual report to defend his fund from this taint of closet indexing.
Many complicating factors, say Clark and others, further taint survey results, including geographical, cultural and racial differences among patients.
This could taint France, which finances the rescue fund and has recently seen its AAA credit rating come under threat.
They may claim to represent a good people or a worthy cause, but they taint the political platforms they embrace.
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But the taint of scandal is difficult to overcome, and unfortunately it is hard to believe that Mr. Junker acted alone.
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But the second part, when he scooped the ball back, is the deliberate bit and that's what will taint his reputation.
The taint of foreign help is still a risky handicap for any group seeking to get rid of the present order.
If the USADA investigation culminates in a guilty finding for Garcia del Moral, that could taint his reputation as a sports-medicine physician.
In certain situations, it can taint food, particularly raw meat and vegetables.
Advocates of doing nothing will argue that Western assistance, overt or covert, will "taint" the real democrats, and should therefore be avoided.
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Though the allegations may be impossible to prove, Vodacom fears any taint.
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The cancer of child exploitation is more widespread than our worst fears - no part of our society appears free from its taint.
Regulators are concerned that the payments may taint the advice Mercer and others dispense to pension plans about which money managers to employ.
Not only was the company setting out to take on the trillion-dollar telecoms industry, but its founders also bore the taint of litigation.
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