Sentence examples for to rectitude from inspiring English sources

His part was to confirm his son's title to rectitude, his inheritance of grace.

The finance ministry will be scrutinised for signs of a return to rectitude, after using creative accounting to hit its primary-surplus target last year.

The puritans, badly in need of an American saint who could add charm to rectitude, have marked him for their own.

He can stretch from comedy to drama, from villainy to rectitude, but he's best ("Fearless" and "Cutter's Way" come to mind) when taking on genre-resistant characters who are conflicted, shadowed, searching.

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

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.

The president still seems curiously hamstrung by his Herbert Hoover-like devotion to fiscal rectitude: he wants to spend but not add "one dime to the deficit," as he announced at his Congressional address on health care in September.

In order to be able to preserve rectitude of will for its own sake, an agent must be able to perform an action that has its ultimate origin in the agent him- or herself rather than in some external source.

In order for the angels to have the power to preserve rectitude of will for its own sake, they had to have both a will for justice and a will for happiness.

They are painfully aware of the damage months of repression have done to the Islamic Republic's claims to moral rectitude.Mr Ahmadinejad's consuming vendetta has been against Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former president who remains rich and influential.

In all the higher religions, doctrines and dogmas emerge and develop in the service of instruction for the faithful: interpreting their sacred scriptures, understanding their obligations and duties, and safeguarding the lines between allowable diversity and actual error all of which help to chart the religious pathway to wisdom, rectitude, and fulfillment.