"In this day and age, the public is demanding honesty and probity," says Thomas H. Lee, chairman of Thomas H. Lee Partners, a leveraged-buyout firm.
In a less chaotic world, Beijing would be holding all the cards, demanding greater fiscal probity in Washington.
Gentle, honest and of an exact probity.
For weeks, Mr. Sanford, newly elected as head of the Republican Governors Association and known for being a fierce free-market foe of government spending, stuck to his stand, questioning the probity of the South Carolina Employment Security Commission and demanding a new audit of the agency.
Fianna Fail, the Social Democrats and the Labour Party are demanding Naughten "urgently" answer questions in the Dail about the probity of his dinner meeting with David McCourt, the chairman of both Enet and Granahan McCourt.
A failure to demand the same level of probity from our politicians is undermining confidence in our elected officials and our political system more broadly.
He promised that he could square the circle of prosperity for his voters and meet EU and IMF demands for fiscal probity.
But analysts said the pension revamp would be part of a worrying trend in which debt-ridden European Union countries like Hungary and Cyprus, stymied by austerity and demands for fiscal probity, were using the private assets of citizens to help shore up public finances.
It is all too easy to rail against the culture of audits and targets in one breath, and demand proof of financial probity and the effective use of public money in the next.
Tiring of the deadening dishonesties that pollute official discourse among A.N.C. apparatchiks, he realizes that creativity and probity are less in demand than sycophancy.
It's the kind of system that has a lot of problems: it produces abuse of power; has difficulty satisfying civil society; creates a middle class which is pretty conservative because it has benefited from economic reform, but also has a lot of expectations and demands of the government: efficiency, services, probity.
