Unjustly or otherwise, its fictional mayhem will always be tinged, or tainted, with thoughts of the genuine suffering that was borne that night.

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On Saturday, a prominent member of Germany's governing CDU party, Hartwig Fischer, told Bild newspaper that products tainted with horsemeat should be distributed to the poor.

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Haim Ramon is a centrist within the Labour Party, and given his distant relationship with Mr Barak, he would not be tainted by the prime minister's political failures.

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The danger is that, however unfairly, Mr Buffett and Mr Gates will come to be seen as the sort of philanthropists whose giving with the left hand is tainted by how the wealth was grasped with the right hand.

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Whitson disagrees with building a museum, which, according to her, will be tainted by the exploitation of incredibly vulnerable workers.

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For English fans, persistent failure on the sport's greatest stage, with the exception of the country's home triumph in 1966, will always be tainted by the idea that English football once ruled the world -- even if only by virtue of the fact that no other country outside the British Isles had yet to discover the sport.

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