How To Use Taint In A Sentence

I can say with certainty that a lot of arms shipments have arrived during this peace period.
What we need is the Government to get this absolutely right and to provide certainty. Times, Sunday Times
Winfrey interviewed Cruise at his mountaintop home near Telluride, Colorado, surrounded by the snow-capped Rocky Mountains.
It is now widely recognised that there are uncertainties in determining both R and D. Uncertainties in D (loads/demand) are due to the fact that they may vary depending on location and time (eg. there are no snow loads in summer, change of use). 2009 January - Telic Thoughts
His Honour saw that if conduct is not unprofessional, the practitioner is entitled to an untainted reputation.

Actual results may differ materially from those set forth in this release due to the risks and uncertainties inherent in Somaxon's business, including, without limitation, Somaxon's interpretation of its communications and interactions with the FDA relating to the requirements for approval of the NDA for Silenor, and the FDA's agreement with such interpretation; Somaxon's interpretation of the results of the clinical trials for Silenor, the timing of the interpretation of such results and the FDA's agreement with such interpretation; the potential for Somaxon to make a resubmission to the Silenor NDA; the potential for Silenor to receive regulatory approval for one or more indications on a timely basis or at all; the potential for the FDA to impose non-clinical, clinical or other requirements to be completed before or after regulatory approval of Silenor; Somaxon's ability to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the FDA that potential NDA approval of Silenor is appropriate prior to the completion of standard, long-term carcinogenicity studies, given the context of completed trials and pending studies; the timing and results of non-clinical studies for Silenor, and the FDA's agreement with Somaxon's interpretation of such results; Digital50.com Digital 50 Daily Industry News RSS Feed
The openings came amid fresh political uncertainty in the country. Times, Sunday Times
It's difficult to predict with any degree of certainty how much it will cost.
No certainty there of a fast surface. The Sun
By the time the higher elevations are reached, such strange notions as Einsteinian curved space-time and the quantum uncertainty principle, heavy meals indeed, seem not so difficult to digest.
This is not a full-scale spending review because of uncertainties about the medium-term economic outlook. Times, Sunday Times
The lexical diarrhoea, the mememe contents, the Pennine Chain I-Know-Everything certainty. Fancy Forking Out £80 for Breakfast with Stephen Timms?
One's feet were cold and the uncertainty of everything made one yawny but not sleepy.
FEMA food kits may contain tainted peanut butter [CNN] FEMA Food May Contain Salmonella Peanut Butter - The Consumerist
This should mean that design costs will be cheaper and there will be more certainty from the beginning. Times, Sunday Times
In contrast, George finds great kinship in the pristine and untainted teachings of the Hebrew codifier, Moses.
His thoughts on life after forty have convinced him to accept uncertainty and nobody believes he is more than forty years old.
The publication of Quantum Leaps is not a fluke; rather it is an exceptionally clear manifestation of the taint, stigma, and taboo surrounding the paranormal.
Questions involving the environment are particularly prone to uncertainty.
For some, there was the agony of uncertainty about marital fidelity at home. A Channel of Peace
Combined with customers who would steer clear of Detroit brands because of uncertainty surrounding maintenance warranties, a messy bankruptcy could have have kicked off a vicious downward spiral that could have ended in liquidation and enormous job losses. Wonk Room » If We Had Let GM Go Bankrupt Last November, We Could Have Lost Another Million Jobs
Thoughts were directed towards home, but there was also uncertainty about what they might do in Canada and what the government would do for them.
The move will help to lift a cloud of uncertainty over the industry. Times, Sunday Times
The regulator said the proposed undertakings also rely on third parties completing certain actions, and involve complex and long-term behavioural obligations that present risks, creating uncertainty that IOOF could become an effective competitor to the combined NAB-AXA. NAB's Bid for AXA Asia Dealt a Blow
During periods of punctuated equilibrium everything is in flux, disequilibrium becomes the norm, and uncertainty reigns!
And feminist psychologists are still predominantly concerned with making egalitarian corrections to traditional psychological theories, rather than working with their uncertainties.
The Government must provide stability and certainty on motoring taxes. The Sun
I feel pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self. Chapter 1
He's far from a certainty at this stage but he's pulled up reasonably well.
The approach is preliminary in nature and there can be no certainty that an offer will ultimately be forthcoming.
Horse riding suffers from the taint of elitism and snobbery which is a legacy of the past.
The union of Christ and the Father within the Godhead is that which we are to believe and rely upon for the certainty of our salvation.
He hammers too much in general upon our opinion's incertainty, and the possibility of erring makes him not venture on what is true. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
He added that to approach the scheme on a piecemeal sectional basis would be unacceptable and would prolong the uncertainty.
Later she was passed over for promotion to a position for which she had been regarded as a certainty.
Real world firms, and in particular real world entrants, face many kinds of uncertainty.
That's a grey area, but the very uncertainty injects a nice frisson into the comedy.
Vulnerability is not weakness, and the uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure we face every day are not optional. Our only choice is a question of engagement. Our willingness to own and engage with our vulnerability determines the depth of our courage and the clarity of our purpose; the level to which we protect ourselves from being vulnerable is a measure of our fear and disconnection. Brene Brown
Their action begins a disruptive process that adds organisational turbulence to existing uncertainty. Times, Sunday Times
What people want in a period of financial instability is certainty, not fiddling. Times, Sunday Times
A wonderfully eerie musical score accompanies the two youngsters as they pound miles of wet roads for hours on end, experiencing nothing but uncertainty at every turn.
Uncertainty again hangs over the project.
(Sadly, Jesse Jackson, Jr., though he appears to not have been involved in corruption, is now too tainted in the public memory as candidate #6 or whatever to have a viable chance at filling the seat.) Matthew Yglesias » Darrel Thompson Sure Can Quit Burris
But try proving that you were denied the certainty of a glorious, enriching career because of something terrible that happened when you were 13 years old. Times, Sunday Times
Where now might certainty reside in such a condition? Foucault and Derrida - The Other Side Of Reason
This article classifies the uncertainty as essential one and uninformative one in term of its origin. The latter results from incomplete information and need more attention from economics.
Despite the various uncertainties surrounding it, it would be unwise to rule out this possibility.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certaintics.
And then, with a shocking crack, the lightning bolt frozen in the sky crashed to the mountaintop, and the arena went entirely dark. AMERICAN GODS
Result: Uncertainty in each ponderance were analyzed and put forward combined standard uncertainty resides of the method.
As we enter what is sure to be a long period of uncertainty—a gantlet of lost jobs, dwindling assets, home foreclosures and two continuing wars—the downside of stress is certainly worth exploring.
Second, the elimination of exchange rate uncertainty will stimulate the manufacturing sectors of member countries.
On a young team in transition with a new general manager, the only certainty is change. Organizational report: Padres spending their money wisely
But despite all the uncertainty and bustle it seems, admittedly to an outsider, that the older generation is coping admirably.
Lab tests showed that the birds ate grain tainted with insecticide.
In this interpretation, Benjamin has been tainted by his relationship with Mrs Robinson and her alcoholic self-loathing.
Uncertainty in the euro area is also likely to damp demand for Central European goods and to discourage investment by Western European firms in the region, Mr. Kalisz said. Growth in Emerging Countries Slows Significantly
People buy and hoard gold in times of uncertainty, economic and political. Times, Sunday Times
Never mind that this was originally a pagan festival; the taint of necromancy (communing with the dead) has been overpowered by a commercialised confectionery fest.
Providing information that reduces uncertainty is a second way a department can increase its power base.
A healthy suppuration will always set in after the exhibition of Apis, provided Sulphur or a psoric taint do not gain the ascendancy. Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent
What's worse is that the insider source was used to say that she was a certainty for the role and the article went onto hammer her and what they called her failing career. Filmstalker: Beckinsale wins Barbarella libel case
It's an interesting balance of uncertainty (Henry never knows where or when he'll go, or end up) with certainty (He sees events in Clare's future that cannot be altered). Book Report: The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
Its downward trend was disturbed only by the uncertainty of the First World War and a sharp but transient post-war baby boom.
Progressive indexation is not well designed to address future uncertainties. Progressive Dementia
First, the elimination of exchange rate uncertainty will enhance the efficiency of the price mechanism as a resource allocator.
There are far too many uncertainties to put a figure on the amount of land available. Urbanization in Post-Apartheid South Africa
She breathed in the fresh air, untainted by the smell of bat guano, and began following the trail she had marked earlier with hair scrunchies.
However, he played with some uncertainty and tentativeness, and no one is sure just how durable he will be.
The main ethical problems included the health risks for the transplant recipient (e.g., a substantial risk of hyperacute rejection and graft-versus-host disease), traditional animal ethics issues, concerns about informed consent (complicated by empirical uncertainties and the possibility of legally mandated life-long health surveillance), fair allocation of health care resources, and the public health issue that xenotransplantation would allow viruses to jump the species barrier into humans. Human/Non-Human Chimeras
Religion, especially confessional Christianity, has always concerned itself with authority and certainty.
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.
Think deeply before you give up your comfortable life for the uncertainty of youthful life and love. The Sun
Shiona told herself with just a flicker of uncertainty, changing into second gear as she rounded a bend.
The starting point for uncertainty that are analogous to the scienti ﬁ c the experimenter is the hypothesis that the drug is method. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
And what the songs lack in structural certainty or melodic eloquence they usually make up for in the remarkable depth and vibrancy of their textures.
Mr Milosevic is fighting for his political survival after a vicious campaign tainted by intimidation and haunted by fears of electoral fraud.
He is a certainty to be included in the preliminary squad of up to 44 to be named on Monday week. Times, Sunday Times
Combined with fervid Methodism, you've got ruthless certainty.
The uncertainty is unbearable!
• Giving certainty of funding when long-term investment is needed but does not fossilise funding at the expense of innovation; Archive 2008-06-01
What we need is to adopt whole river catchment plans from mountaintop to estuary, instead of the fragmented approach we have at present.
Politics and market have substaintial distinction, commutative politics watches itself to have a problem.
I have told them with absolute certainty there'll be no change of policy.
The early 1990s was a time of great economic and political uncertainty in Russia.
Why Should We Care: Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have long said that Vincent is the only character that was guaranteed to survive until the end of the series, so his future participation seems like a certainty. LOST IN NUMBERS: Sixteen Recurring Characters We Hope To See Again In The Final Season » MTV Movies Blog
The company routinely recalls tainted products, but usually after receiving complaints from customers.
He avoided censure through his reputation for being proved right and the certainty that he spoke in the general interest - not his own. Times, Sunday Times
In a letter to the Super Committee, Congressman Howard Berman D-CA, Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee wrote, In this period of belt-tightening and economic uncertainty, some seem to think that foreign assistance is a luxury we can no longer afford. Regan Hofmann: How President Obama Makes Love, Not War, by Pledging to End AIDS
He was very refined in his conversation -- at least, what I call refined -- for he was one of those persons in whose society one is comfortable from the certainty that they will never say anything which can shock other people, or hurt their feelings, be they ever so fastidious or sensitive. Life of Charles Dickens
Some investors buy gold as a safe haven in times of political and economic uncertainty.
Nothing was too much trouble for her to do in the way of helping us, and oftentimes tears would bedim her eyes as she looked at me and baby, who always laughed at her; perhaps thinking of her loneliness after we were gone, perhaps of the possibility of our not returning to Tankar, and even of the uncertainty of life in the far interior. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
Legal settlement reached in tainted pet food case" [Reuters UK] (Photo: faster panda kill kill) Pet Food Companies Agree To $24 Million Settlement Over Killer Pet Food - The Consumerist
The virtues of tomorrow, unlike the virtues of yore, will be inspiring shape-shifters whose purpose, in addition to saving us, will be to baffle the certainties and absolutisms of ideologues everywhere.
The uncertainty concerning the proper scope of IP rights is magnified by the onrush of technology.
The difficulty about highlighting all these uncertainties is that it makes the rest of us feel uncertain. Times, Sunday Times
(T) he policy shift by Wells Fargo follows others over the last two years, including moves by Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citibank, to increase scrutiny of lending to companies involved in mountaintop removal -- or to end the lending altogether. William S. Becker: Climate Action: Part 2 - Down to Business
There is considerable uncertainty about the company's future.
Investors have been spooked by the credit crunch and the uncertainty over the future of Northern Rock. Times, Sunday Times
The uncertainty surrounding him would cause a chain of events and interviews, due diligence any team looking to acquire Williams in a trade would insist upon.
Uncertainty about the length of the transition makes it difficult for people to plan. Christianity Today
Robust estimates of uncertainty in field data can be carried forward to become explicit in published 3D models.
The advantage of the forward market is that the transaction is risk-free: the price is specified now, with certainty.
His political reputation is tainted by the matter.
These could be courses in the bottom of dormant volcanoes, on isolated islands, or atop unfathomably high mountaintops.
In other words, the problem was that the election process was so tainted that it feared its attempts to whitewash the poll would be rapidly exposed.
The future exchange exists as a central place for folks that have real goods to exchange -- the cash market -- to obtain predictability and certainty about the gains or losses from making a cash trade today that has a future delivery date. Here's a tax target for ya (Jack Bog's Blog)
They take advantage of people's dislike of uncertainty by providing insurance services.
Facilities such as these will allow the engineer to possibly gain deeper systems understanding and through this obtain greater diagnostic certainty.
We assume that agents can only live safely for the first two periods and face uncertainty as to whether they will survive to the third period.
He was, indeed, as Dr. Lavendar said, a man of humble mind; and yet with his humbleness was a serene certainty of belief as to his soul's welfare that would have been impossible to John Fenn, who measured every man's chance of salvation by his own theological yardstick, or even to Dr. Lavendar, who thought salvation unmeasurable. The Voice
The uncertainties associated with large federal budget deficits warn against exclusive focus on the total spending done by government.
There is too little certainty about the present state of the German economy.
That mental inquietude will impede digestion is a fact familiar to almost every one; but, I believe, it is not so generally known, that it will with no less certainty retard and alter the nature of the secretion furnished by the breasts of the lactescent female. Remarks on the Subject of Lactation
But I can tell you with a degree of certainty today, in terms of alternative pain management or alternative medicines, the Army has left few stones unturned in terms of looking at everything from acupuncture to other forms of therapy that are, in some regards, nonmainstream. How The U.S. Military Handles Suicidal Soldiers
There was no uncertainty, no wavering, no hesitation, nor was there any mirth, any pleasure, any satisfaction.
So I let the world go hang today, I shall go to my bed good and early, and look forward with reasonable certainty to a better day tomorrow.
Fans will enjoy the aptly titled A TWISTED LADDER as the heroine ponders nurturing vs. naturing with her DNA and her childhood tainted in this terrific refreshing character driven thriller. A Twisted Ladder-Rhodi Hawk « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
The uncertainties over the timing of any asset realisations have led the liquidators to warn that thousands of policyholders may have to wait a full year before settlement of their claims.
Such uncertainties may remain unresolved for several years.
He said a three-year deal would also allow uncertainty over the upgrade of the East Coast to be cleared up.
Standards for noncarcinogenic chemicals, for instance, are defined by the maximum dose that causes no harm to animals in a toxicity study, divided by numerical factors to reflect data uncertainties. Toxicity testing- new dimensions
There is practical certainty as to payment, and that contingency does not affect the existence of the liability.
Besides uncertainty over whether lesions should be excised or ablated by a variety of techniques, the contribution of adjunctive presacral neurectomy or uterosacral nerve ablation-transection is unclear.
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.
Personal uncertainty will combine with social pressure to encourage experiment.
He was considered tainted by association with the corrupt regime.
The troll let out a growl of fury as it dropped the tainted sword with a loud thud.
I still prefer the uncertainty and randomness of crossword clues.
Investors have been spooked by the credit crunch and the uncertainty over the future of Northern Rock. Times, Sunday Times
Internal uncertainty and external scrutiny are constant companions. Times, Sunday Times
Religion, rather than rigidifying our political ideologies and psychological orientations, ought to be destabilizing our certainties, as certainty is too often an enemy of compassion. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Cummins notes that humans are particularly good at deontic reasoning, that is reasoning about obligations and rights, because our minds have adapted to negotiate the uncertainties of dominance hierarchy.
Many are still facing the uncertainty of life in refugee camps a year after leaving their homes.
The warm weather will taint the food.
Einthoven said in his work in 1895 that the efforts to fully interpret the electrocardiogram should be abandoned for the moment, and in a survey of the relevant literature up to the first half of 1912, the author** put emphasis on the uncertainty of the efforts to interpret the cardiogram. Physiology or Medicine 1924 - Presentation Speech
There probably hasn't been a time in history whereby there's so much uncertainty.
International investors have been quitting sterling assets since the referendum in June because of economic uncertainty. Times, Sunday Times
The security of a government-funded human services position had been an improvement over the uncertainty of a solo carpentry business.
Yes, there are a number of uncertainties — Will contingent obligations (like guaranty claims, or liabilities on asserted but as yet unliquidated lawsuit claims) become due? The Volokh Conspiracy » Greek Bailout and Liquidity Risk
All I can say with certainty is that he is trying to live a purposeful life, for himself and his family. Times, Sunday Times
The life of the architect is so fraught with uncertainty and dilemmas that any clarification of the future, including astrology, is disproportionately welcome.
Like its conceptual cousin, the uncanny, it delimits the boundaries of certainties about identity and experience.
The rhetoric fashion of people of ah age and a clime has its traits to a certainty. The traits form special modes of expression about aesthetic experience.
As far as possible, radio relay stations ought to be placed at a distance from the mountaintop that obstructs the path but in a manner that it be seen from either station.
No certainty has yet been attained in ascertaining the locale of many of these stations. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Unlike English, Arabic thematic fronting may express incredulity, disbelief, suspicion, uncertainty, denial, limitation and/or exclusiveness on the part of the subject or the object.
In a single phrase, these words exempt the sentence's subsequent assertions of human equality and unalienable rights from the claims of traditional conduct, metaphysical certainty, and scientific proof.
When thus arranged, they reveal with some degree of certainty the entire range of human progress from savagery to civilization.
A civil war in Sri Lanka, extending nowhere else, untainted on either side by even a whiff of Islamism -- a war in which a minority people, slaughtered mercilessly for decades, have come to identify (at least to some extent) with a brutal counterforce called the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, is now effortlessly connected to 9/11. Archive 2009-04-01
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certaintics.
Feminists are always sure of what they believe, and I can go along with them on many points, but I am unable to share their certainties or their assurance.
Where now might certainty reside in such a condition? Foucault and Derrida - The Other Side Of Reason
This political and bureaucratic game of musical chairs has the entire world on a knife edge, continued uncertainty and lack of confident decision making worsening sentiment.
The words were like poison, sinking beneath my skin and tainting me.
Just 15 % of businesses favour the certainty of a swift deal. Times, Sunday Times
The buttons on lifts, tainted with vague trails of dried-up fluids, never escape her consciousness.
But part of the recognition of the Fall is to realize that though no person is wholly good or wholly evil, one is still obliged to fight on the side of justice, even if one's side is tainted by sin and impure motives.
In view of the uncertainty of the price movement, we deem it advisable to withhold offering.
If forced to examine the movie from that sociological mountaintop, veteran costume designer Ann Roth is right.
Young people grow up in tightly structured childhoods, Wuthnow observes, but then graduate into a world characterized by uncertainty, diversity, searching and tinkering.
Although this has narrowed choice, these bank advisers had become tainted with the stain of past mis-selling. Times, Sunday Times
And feminist psychologists are still predominantly concerned with making egalitarian corrections to traditional psychological theories, rather than working with their uncertainties.
The product of their uncertainties is guaranteed to be at least h-bar. Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In?
It was the uncertainty that was so infuriating, not knowing where she was.
Not even Michael eased her mind to the same degree nor conveyed the same certainty of inviolable protection. DEVIL'S BRIDE
Her comments will add uncertainty to an already complicated situation.
Let me outline this in the form of two simple propositions: Modernity pluralizes the lifeworlds of individuals and consequently undermines all taken-for-granted certainties.
Documentary research in the technical literature was undertaken to plan interviews and to identify key areas of technological innovation and technical uncertainty.
All of your certainties have been wrenched away from you. Times, Sunday Times
This theoretical uncertainty was fully supported by the experience of ancient and medieval technology.
Not an industry study, ‘tainted’ by profit motive, but a honest-to-goodness government study, pure in heart, uninfluenced by anything but a search for truth.
Theories abound as to the causes of death, ranging from tainted canned meat to lead poisoning. The Times Literary Supplement
Botulinum is the nerve-paralyzing toxin released by bacteria that inhabit tainted canned foods. Globe and Mail
Her government never really shook off the taint of corruption.
Organizational environments are always uncertain, so departments that can cope effectively with uncertainty can increase their power within the organization.
He looks like a choirboy and plays with a dreamy certainty, winding up his big, extended forehand to crunch winners with abandon. Times, Sunday Times
Yet the certainty of drink on the morrow let us sleep easily, lying on our bellies to prevent the inflation of foodlessness. Seven Pillars of Wisdom
The phonetic form and spelling and the derivation are alike unsettled, the uncertainty of the latter involving that of the former.
Uncertainties in history, archeology, biogeography, anthropology and biosystematics obscure the dates and places of the first domestication of cultivated crops.
Unlike many officials he was not tainted by corruption allegations. Times, Sunday Times
All the profoundest certainties of being were forfeit in the face of it. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
The man was charged with using the Internet to procure a child under 16, using the Internet to expose a child to indecent material and possession of tainted property relating to computers.
The virtues of tomorrow, unlike the virtues of yore, will be inspiring shape-shifters whose purpose, in addition to saving us, will be to baffle the certainties and absolutisms of ideologues everywhere.
The big names also recommend that players tainted by match-fixing allegations should not be selected in future. The Sun
The best entrepreneurs have the right balance of inner certainty and self-deprecation to cope with problems and not lose their audacity and ambition. Times, Sunday Times
But this much we do know with apodictic certainty: virtually nothing in Iraq has gone as the US envisioned it. Lew Rockwell: Iraq and Moral Corruption
I have told them with absolute certainty there'll be no change of policy.
Should the law extend the definition beyond purpose to cover the awareness of the practical certainty that the crew would be killed?
There's no cause to be "disconcerted" by this, and neither is there any reason to obscure the real uncertainties and open questions that scientists are working on. RealClimate
Given the uncertainty over Leigh's future I was left with little other choice.
Added to this is a general feeling of economic uncertainty - with military action looming and Wall Street unsettled, Americans are adopting a cautious view towards non-essential spending.
I know with 100% certainty that my brother would have been safer sitting in his living room than being anywhere in Iraq.
Fortescue fought at the battle of Towton and was subsequently attainted by the victorious Edward IV.
It is an absolute mathematical certainty. The Sun
I can, however, say with reasonable certainty what the lampshade is to me. Mark Jacobson: Looking At An Icon Of Evil
I also abhor the notion that because one rider is under suspicion, the history of an entire operation is somehow tainted. Times, Sunday Times
Lead-tainted jewelry recalls cataloged by Consumer Reports. CR and the CPSC on lead test kits: Similar results, different conclusions
He wanted the manslaughter charge dropped and says the case is full of uncertainty.
The ascription of an alethic morphology to the mass of epistemic certainties is always ultimately a premise in and of itself, a supposition of relevance. Bukiet on Brooklyn Books

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