Sentence examples for rectitude over from inspiring English sources

Finally, the poet seems at pains to emphasise that, anti-Prohibition he may be, but, in maturity, he favours rectitude over wrecktitude.

But so long as Europe remains trapped in a policy regime that prioritizes deficit reduction and financial rectitude over everything else, reforms alone will not arrest its downward spiral.

As with his belated rectitude over public finance - Gladstone again - it may be too little too late, but in a dealigned age when the result is uniquely unclear, millions of voters will dither their way into the polling booth.

Not satisfied in the belief that rising early is virtuous in and of itself, they seem compelled to lord their rectitude over those who sleep late and, of course, stay up late (no doubt watching television programs that have absolutely no socially redeeming value).

This completely remarkable film wins award after award (and people applauded it in the theater where I saw it), which suggests that Obama's remarkable ascendance to the presidency delivers the same quality of exhilarating victory of stubborn skill and rectitude over prejudice and inertia.

He sees the president as an exemplar of mushy, feel-good Christianity that emphasizes tolerance over rectitude, and the love of Jesus over the wrath of God.

Arguing the spartan rectitude of one over the irresistible self-indulgence of the other may be something better to avoid.

His law partner, Arthur Jordan Charneyy), hopes that this grievous event can soften the rectitude Alison has displayed over the years in refusing to name collaborators or make emotional pleas to the parole board for her release.

There is no choice, no flexibility, unless you can obtain credit to tide you over, but credit depends on rectitude as well.

Mr Singh, once a model of rectitude, is tarnished by presiding over the most corrupt government in India's independent history.

Like many of his predecessors, the finance minister, Peer Steinbrück, another SPD cove, is over-attached to notions of fiscal rectitude.