Sentence examples for rectitude to from inspiring English sources

There's a rectitude to their visuals.

Above all, he restored fiscal rectitude to the state.

It requires moral rectitude to separate public service from private gain.

Ethics requires not just the rectitude to refuse wrongdoing but the resourcefulness to devise an honest alternative.

Even so, Merkel's attempt to demonstrate her fiscal rectitude to German voters has ended up making the cost of the bailout more expensive, not less.

When she ran for Tokyo governor this year, Ms. Koike often campaigned in a bright green headband, vowing to bring financial rectitude to city government.

Similarly, whatever wild pledges they may make to the electorate over the next two months, none of the major parties are in principle opposed to the open free-market economy, fiscal rectitude or to attempts to lure foreign capital.For now, the economy is riding a flood of global liquidity.

Still, the persistence of so seductive an affront to international rectitude deserves to be cherished.

Flowers used his move into Americana on Sam's Town to open a canny dialogue between desire and rectitude, and to create an entire oeuvre based on this polarity.

According to Kennan, when American policymakers suddenly confronted the Cold War, they had inherited little more than rationale and rhetoric "utopian in expectations, legalistic in concept, moralistic in [the] demand it seemed to place on others, and self-righteous in the degree of high-mindedness and rectitude ... to ourselves".

The protracted saga of the recent Greek bailout, when investors effectively forced Athens to accept deep budget cuts and monitoring from the International Monetary Fund and Brussels, appears to have focused the minds of policy makers across Europe, many of whom had long paid lip service to fiscal rectitude while failing to use periods of growth to balance their books.