Sentence examples for As upstanding from inspiring English sources

What is driving Doss, this goofy kid, whose principles are as upstanding as his quiff?

Naturally, as upstanding people we all agree that murder is the opposite of freedom.

Instead, the two defendants were depicted as upstanding, hardworking portfolio managers whose investments were grounded in legitimate research.

The corrupt officials who were ousted in the Clean Hands trials presented themselves as upstanding, chaste, and refined.

David Durham has befriended Propst and regards him as upstanding, suitable for supervising adolescents like his son.

In the Italian popular imagination, Albanian immigrants are more often depicted as scofflaws than as upstanding members of society.

Shrinking revenues have reduced the amount and quality of investigative and local political reporting in the print press.But old-style journalism was never quite as morally upstanding as journalists like to think.

I wanted to know if people in London would ever be as morally upstanding as our man in Boston, so I took to the streets and asked them a question: What's the most honest thing you've ever done?

Mr. Gore's aides have made no secret that it was his reputation as a morally upstanding man, as much as anything else, that appealed to the vice president, whose own image has been sullied somewhat by questions about improper fund-raising in the 1996 campaign.

A big fat confession, complete with reconstructed dialog and innuendo about as many upstanding Chicagoans as he can muster, stands a much better chance of selling than do hundreds of pages of "I wuz framed".

Society has already decided who should be designated as its criminals, even if the "suspects" are as innocuous and upstanding as Henry Louis Gates -- a Harvard professor who was arrested for standing on his front porch and attempting to enter his own home.