Yet for some politicians, the definition of a moral leader has little to do with personal rectitude, with fearing God, being faithful to a spouse or abjuring untruths and devious business practices.
John Holland-Kayexecutivexecutive, Heathrow Airport I do not expect the Guardian to act as yet another PR arm of Britain's most aggressive, devious and unpleasant business (Concorde captain's split runway plan to end Heathrow impasse, 14 November).
He is a deeply secretive, devious man, trained in business and the CIA.
Few novelists write well about business, but the devious machinations of this plot, with its intricate financial and moral transactions, are handled expertly.
The Pazzi bank, in the course of a treacherous war in which the adversaries did not scruple to use the most devious methods, had taken the business affairs of the papacy away from the Medici.
The recent stories about American business practices -- including devious tax-avoidance schemes, crooked accounting, insider trading and vast transfers of wealth from investors to executives -- could easily be stories about the Russian kleptocracy.
I'm not surprised by its stance on certain things - but there's something so devious about America, and so much tied into business and the whole corporate universe that has nothing to do with an individual".
He squandered the money he'd been awarded through bad business ventures and at the hands of devious friends and relatives.
But Hitchcock is a great one for surprises, and here's Oscar-winning Joan Fontaine newly wed to the devious charmer and suspecting he's done away with business partner Nigel Bruce, with her next on the hitlist.
Last week, Margaret Hodge accused Google of "devious, calculated and, in my view, unethical behaviour in deliberately manipulating the reality of your business in order to avoid paying your fair share of tax".
