Sentence examples for great probity from inspiring English sources
"He acted with great probity," Raff says.
At the novel's centre is George Smiley, a physically insignificant, middle-aged man of great observational powers and moral principle, who inevitably recalls those recurrent fictional Englishmen of great probity, Conrad's Marlow and Snow's Lewis Eliot.
Lincoln, the film I most admire and expect to win, is a work of dignity and seriousness that speaks to Obama's America and the world at large about the great issues of democracy and human rights, how they were fought for by a brave man of great probity, and how we may all contribute to their maintenance.
He weighed in with policy prescriptions, arguing that consolidating banking regulation would "lend itself to greater probity for the industry".
Happily, Mr. Savall has borne the standard for his instrument with greater probity and more consistent artistry than have, say, certain tenors or other human embodiments of specific instruments.
Such blatancy indicates India is far from repairing its broken administration, achieving greater probity in politics or giving people real access to quick and speedy justice.
Clearly, for Nordenfelt, people who attain high office or who demonstrate great moral probity deserve respect on that account and, if for no other reason than common courtesy nurses should give all patients appropriate respect.
That is something that definitely acts as a deterrent and may bring about a greater degree of probity in public life.
The Times called Profumo's lies "a great tragedy for the probity of public life in Britain"; the Daily Mail recorded Profumo's fall and disgrace as the price required when public figures fell short of the expected standards of integrity.
"Throughout my 36-year parliamentary career I took great care to act with probity and to treat the rules of the House of Commons with the greatest respect," he said.
In early passages, Suskind turns somersaults to establish O'Neill's probity, apparently so great that even inanimate objects reflected it (at one point, O'Neill settles into a "ladder-back chair" that was an "emblem... of rectitude and transparency").
