Sentence examples for upstanding behavior from inspiring English sources

Since the release of the original Bad Santa, the cinema has been littered with movies that are content to do away with story, character development or intrigue merely because they have such a simplistic title convention (find a job that requires upstanding behavior and circumvent that by throwing the word "bad" in front of it).

Though he has filed no request for witnesses, the governor said he wished to call a long list of people who were not permitted to be called by the rules, including Rahm Emanuel, the president's chief of staff; Valerie Jarrett, an Obama senior adviser; and governors of other states who would testify, he said, to his upstanding behavior.

Isn't this the way these laws are always applied, leaving business to run 'as usual,' and everyone else to model upstanding behavior?

We molded Libby into an upstanding household member, successfully having altered her behavior.

From calling grown men "boy" to the well-documented cases of race-based violence, upstanding black men are not willing to accept the behavior exhibited by that police officer.

Last week they were outdone by the Washington nobility we know as members of Congress, those officials we elect and pay with our tax dollars to be upstanding officers of our federal government and not engage in questionable behavior.

They played pieces from a sanctioned repertoire, and operated under a strict code of rules on behavior and permissible business transactions intended to maintain an upstanding reputation.

I explain my upstanding month-long project, and his upbeat demeanour falters a bit.

-- upstanding working folk.

Pleasant, upstanding people make hairdressers.

"But they are pleasant, upstanding guys".