Sentence examples similar to upstanding duty from inspiring English sources

Owning your mistakes is an honorable thing to do, but it really is nothing more than your obligation and duty as an upstanding citizen, colleague and friend.

Roddick went on to lose the match, and his beyond-the-call-of-duty honesty made him famous as an upstanding person, an opponent who would do the right thing.

The antidumping and countervailing duty laws are portrayed by its defenders as tools necessary to protect upstanding U.S. companies and their workers from predatory foreign firms and their enabling governments.

The message seems to be that, although he is gradually coming to terms with his responsibilities, and will eventually fulfil his duties with less scandal, he refuses to be seen as an uptight, upstanding member of the establishment on all but those occasions where it is unavoidable.  .

The upstanding fellow chimes in with his own hurrahs to himself: "I've always followed orders and done my duty" — a self-assessment that has to be set against the positioning of this play during the advancing years of the Third Reich.

-- upstanding working folk.

Orphaned, raised to believe "the whole duty of a woman is to be pretty", and now fancy free on the high-society party circuit, Amy falls in love with (and proves the downfall of) the play's upstanding antihero Henry Trebell.

Pleasant, upstanding people make hairdressers.

Ralph Macchio is an upstanding family man.

"But they are pleasant, upstanding guys".

What a fine, upstanding body of women!