Sentence examples for upright manner from inspiring English sources

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He noted that Bishop Murphy promised last month to handle court cases "in a responsible and upright manner".

"At the time, I dealt with this in an upright manner, and the matter was satisfactorily resolved long ago," he wrote, without specifying the accusations.

If Mr. Christie occasionally errs toward stiffness, his upright manner seems on the whole only to reinforce the archness of Rameau's humor.

So, in the struggle to enjoy our full rights of citizenship, including the right to vote, we had to present the case in an exceedingly upright manner.

The baroque, though, began to appeal, at first surreptitiously, not just to those who looked to Rome – as Evelyn Waugh had – but also to those such as Blunt whose ostensibly uptight, upright manner fronted hidden passions – among them his sexuality – and who sought subversion (Blunt was a Soviet spy).

For those not familiar with chopstick etiquette, placing them in a upright manner like in the photograph is somewhat of a faux pas as, at least in Japan, it reminds people of funerals.

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His feud with Mr Godane - who refused to anoint him as "spiritual leader" - boiled over last year when Mr Aweys used a Friday religious sermon to accuse al-Shabab's top brass, as Somali journalist Abdi Aynte wrote at the time, of "monopolising jihad, globalising the Somali conflict, assassinating innocent Somalis and, more damningly, acting in a manner unbecoming of upright jihadists".

However, above all else, one must note that the image of the gun, typically portrayed in an upright, anticipatory manner, is facing downward.

A popular type of painting in the 19th century was fool-the-eye realism in which objects, recognizable and nameable ones, were presented to the viewer in an upright, frontal manner like Mr. McLaughlin's.

In other study, Peng et al. fabricated bamboo-shaped TiO2 nanotubes with an average diameter of 100 nm by upright dipping manner [32].

The man in charge — Josh Emett, a tall, thin New Zealander with extreme upright posture and the withering manner of an English Second World War colonel — seemed to regard his cooks with such open contempt that I was surprised by how relaxed they appeared.

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