However, when uprightness failed to attain the desired [moral and political] objectives, [they resorted to] authority.
His unbending uprightness came to be overtaken by the cool flexibility of a new generation that included Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson.
If payment is the ticket to moral uprightness, I want to see if Mitt has punched his own ticket," Spitzer said, while host of the show "Viewpoint" on the TV channel Current.
"Because with that much uprightness, the club wants to shut down and you're going to have the ball go left.
Taliban trained in religious schools have become mixed together with Ali-come-latelies less devoted to Islamic uprightness.
Yes, there is the ever-present Prosperity Gospel stuff we hear from the Christian right, but there is also an even wider-scale acceptance of financial responsibility, credit worthiness, and general economic success - whether earned or not - as equivalent to moral uprightness.
In a country where most women cover their heads and some hide inside full-body burkas, where sexual feelings are seen as a challenge to purity and uprightness, a dancing woman is a defiance and a threat, and Ms. Kermani knows it.
This is clearly reflected in the opening sentence of the "Methods of the Sima": "In antiquity, taking benevolence as the foundation and employing righteousness to govern constituted uprightness.
"What I do know is that we are made of water and so we must cultivate the ability to self-seal if we are to move through this life with any sort of coalescence, with any sort of uprightness, with any sort of ability to guide and have agency over what we do with our time here".
Moreover, he believed in a loosely federated national church, with each parish free to worship as it wished within very broad limits and staffed by a clergy licensed by the state on the basis of their knowledge of the Bible and the uprightness of their lives, without reference to their religious beliefs.
