Sentence examples for by rectitude from inspiring English sources

Ethics, by contrast, suggests a level of conduct that might anticipate future laws and in any event strive to do that which is considered above most laws, that which is driven by rectitude.

American political misogyny is inflamed by anger at this clucking overclass: who are they to do battle by imposing rectitude instead of by actually doing battle?

While Sartre was far too comfortable and cunning to be any kind of example of Sartrean man, and Camus far too touched by inner rectitude to be an instance of Camusean man, Jeanson was both.

On Thursday Nicola Sturgeon was able to bring a thousand delegates to their feet with the mention of another referendum on independence, though accompanied by the rectitude that words like "draft" and "consultation" bring.

Although Melania has popped up here and there, her absences have unsettled purists who cite Jacqueline Kennedy and Nancy Reagan as beacons of stand-by-your-president rectitude.

Many Germans define themselves by their moral rectitude, as exhibited by their reckoning with the Nazi past and, more recently, by the government's decision to accept more refugees from the Syrian civil war than any other Western country.

Yours is an intriguing sort of mischief, less likely to be deterred by calls for individual rectitude than by technological innovation.

ANOTHER month, another review by the International Monetary Fund of Argentina's economy and another gesture of fiscal rectitude by the Peronist government of Néstor Kirchner.

Though Wenceslas Square is topped by the equestrian rectitude of its patron saint, it is anything but upstanding.

She has scared investors away from infrastructure projects and undermined Brazil's hard-won reputation for macroeconomic rectitude by publicly chivvying the Central Bank chief into slashing interest rates.

What little tension the series generates depends on portraying them as backward and helpless, and on playing off their reputation for simplicity and rectitude by depicting them as philandering frauds.