Sentence examples for keep honest from inspiring English sources

"This legislation will keep honest people honest.

He questioned how a policeman was "going to keep honest if the opportunity comes for him to get graft".

And using government money to keep honest, hardworking car-industry workers in their jobs is easier for politicians to justify than handouts for greedy Wall Street bankers.

Bankers and other financial actors often breached their moral duty to keep honest books, and they still do—just ask Bernie Madoff's clients or Enron's shareholders.

They use the flimsiest of excuses – unsubstantiated threats to national security is a particular favorite – to keep honest journalists behind bars, without due process, for years on end.

A peaceful transition will mark the culmination of a process that ordinary Nigerians strove hard to keep honest, and will be remembered by many within the country as an unprecedented, defining push for change.

The hand of the present is kept honest by the gaze of the future.

"It keeps the honest, honest," he said.

Keep people honest.

They keep him honest.

ture can keep her honest.