In fact, just hours after Mr. Mugabe's tainted victory was announced, the accolades from African states started pouring in.

The selection of the president thus was relegated to the assembly, where the PCN majority affirmed Molina's tainted victory after a walkout by opposition deputies.

It's not a tainted victory.

Cena did not want a tainted victory so he attacked Laurinaitis and told McMahon he did not want to win that way.

Fujimori's constitutionally questionable decision to seek a third term and subsequent tainted victory in June 2000 brought political and economic turmoil.

Better the clean death of honest defeat than a tainted victory.

Then, on Friday night against Montreal, Williams notched his only tainted victory of the string.

But the General would have none of it: the last thing that he wanted was a tainted victory, with RPF delegates beholden to another party.

And the supposed beneficiary of this rigged election, Mr. Bush, drifts along obediently, apparently content to take a tainted victory rather than face a real contest.

Her daughter, Gwen, showed early promise as a politician, winning an election in the third grade that some might call a tainted victory, since her parents handed out lollipops at the polls.