Sentence examples for stood righteous from inspiring English sources

According to the Brooklyn district attorney's office, Father Byrns stood righteous before his congregation during a period when he was sexually assaulting one of its children, an 11-year-old boy.

Every time we demonize another, stand as righteous judge over our brother, and seek justice devoid of grace or mercy, there are consequences.

On the sidewalk stood hordes of the righteous, some leaning forward like wind-bent grasses, the better to deliver their imprecations against gays and fags to the open windows of the limos - the windows open by order of the security people - creeping toward the Kodak Theater for the 78th Academy Awards.

Get a Job stands out – a righteous paean to hard work, directed at a partying slacker who's hit their 30s.

The Talmud teaches us that where a person who sins and repents stands, a truly righteous person can never stand.

Mounting casualties did not distract him from advancing what he saw as Brazil's righteous cause, and he stood prepared to personally sacrifice his own throne to gain an honorable outcome.

In a sometimes self-righteous Greenwich Village scene, Mr. Van Ronk stood outside factionalism.

Far from apologising, Mr Gore assumed an attitude of righteous zeal, as though the abuses of which he stood accused had magically vindicated him.

A few days later, in a speech at Fordham University, Mr. Spitzer stood alone on a podium and lit into critics with a righteous anger.

How long could we really expect them to stand up to the righteous indignation of the masses as well as the political ambitions of no less than 17 state attorneys general.

Has the Torah sufficiently gone through us to transform us into someone sufficiently righteous to stand before the community as a leader and role model?