Sentence examples for Political rectitude from inspiring English sources

His tower is the unfinished expression of that avowed confusion: a monument to unpredictable becoming, not to aesthetic or political rectitude.

However much Chinese officials talk about cultivating judicial independence and the rule of law, they talk even more about law serving the needs of economic development and political rectitude.

They might stand for those who would disavow sensual hedonism and the infantile consumerism it leads to — those who would put art to the service of critical intellect and political rectitude.

COPEI had denied him its candidacy, and while many saw Caldera as the standard-bearer of political rectitude, others regarded his abandonment of the party as little more than opportunism.

[End Page 414] Ideologues deny any truth save political rectitude, though they know of course who oppresses and who is oppressed.

Richard Shelby, that pillar of political rectitude, is leading the charge of the vengeful to secure his resignation.

The worthiness of the aim — politic, if not political — is one thing, boding more rectitude than rapture.

But it goes on to observe that in blocking the nomination of Judge Ronnie White to the federal bench, Mr. Ashcroft "advanced the fabricated charge that Judge White was 'pro-criminal' and had 'a tremendous bent toward criminal activity.' " It is difficult to understand how one can reconcile the advancement of fabricated charges for political gain with personal rectitude.

But the state had two attributes the St. Laurents had come to prize: political stability and fiscal rectitude (see sidebar).

Convinced of its own abiding rectitude, Virginia's political class has refused to enact laws with teeth to hold elected officials to decent standards of conduct in carrying out the people's business.

But to his advisers, even the appearance of a close bond with a lobbyist whose clients often had business before the Senate committee Mr. McCain led threatened the story of redemption and rectitude that defined his political identity.