Sentence examples for upright men from inspiring English sources

It includes his father and uncle, upright men in caps prepared to die to defend someone else's freedom.

Sankara was the country's first independent president, renaming it from the colonial Upper Volta to Burkina Faso – "land of the upright men".

Mathewson was determined, in these books, to present baseball as a game perfectly suited for bright, upright men — men like Mathewson.

Known in colonial times as Upper Volta, the landlocked country became independent from France in 1960 and its name was changed to Burkina Faso ("the land of upright men") in 1984.

A 1999 guide to literary agents described him as "a lean, bald, craggy-faced man with a game leg, which he assists with a cane, an expression usually either amused or sardonic, a gruff manner that can sometimes seem downright brusque, and a reputation as one of the truly upright men in the business".

His eloquence in English, French and Spanish as well as his own tongue has not always gone down well in a country where people tend to prefer "upright men of few words" as leaders.But the beef behind the oratory began to be felt in 1995, soon after he became prime minister.

Dad Lewis is what once was called an upright man, and as he expires we see the consequences of his uprightness.

Townspeople remembered him as an "honorable, honest, upright man".

Though this tradition has always had a dubious history, Yuqin is moral and upright man.

They include a dour Victorian woman, and an upright man from the same era.

Sir Walter Scott was another truth-teller, another good and upright man.