Sentences with phrase «by upstanding»

Beyond these tidbits delineated by the upstanding citizens running the ratings board, not much else is known.

Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio), a promising but volatile young cadet with family ties to Costello, is recruited by the upstanding Captain Queenan (Martin Sheen) for a years - long undercover mission: he'll be convicted of felony assault and expelled from the force, and after serving a prison term he'll work his way into Costello's gang.

Rebecca had been diagnosed as bipolar at 2 - and - a-half, and given medication by an upstanding psychiatrist who was a fan of Biederman's research into childhood bipolar.

Greed can only be committed by companies, not by upstanding ladies like Sandra Fluke who need thousands in aide from the rest of us to buy contraception.

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He says he's been derided as American short seller who doesn't understand the Canadian market, a shark looking to make a quick buck by destroying the reputation of an upstanding firm.

As a former JW, this woman was walking on the edge of what is considered «upstanding» behavior by even taking this job.

He was an upstanding member of the team, a good student, a good man by all accounts that was accused, one time, of one heinous crime.

Contrary to my paranoid suspicions, Mignot's study was funded not by drug companies but by two upstanding behemoths of American philanthropy, the Howard Hughes Medical Research Institute and the McKnight Foundation.

All profiles are vetted by the cMatch team to assess if the applicant is upstanding, genuine, and Christian.

Meanwhile, there are larger issues for him to untangle, involving the university's housing policy and the conflicts between the residence containing the largest number of white assholes (one of whom is the president's bratty son, played by Kyle Gallner) and the house where most of the black students land (and where the dean's upstanding, tweed - and - pocket - square - wearing son, played by Brandon P. Bell, strives to be a leader).

By no means can I promise that everyone will embrace this film, as its script is so problematic, and its strengths aren't particularly upstanding, but their subtle impact goes a long way in overcoming shortcomings through quality aesthetic and dramatic value which make this a worthy epic.

The fun of the film (and it is often fun) is in the complexities of interconnections, and the sheer number of criminals raging through this tiny area, outnumbering the upstanding citizens by the looks of it.

Unfortunately, it is also features very dumb criminals, who are easily and repeatedly outwitted by ordinarily upstanding nobodies, including a 100 - pound schoolteacher.

Glen Powell makes the strongest impression as mustachioed gabber Finnegan, Wyatt Russell loosely fills Rory Cochrane's part in Dazed and Confused as the joint - rolling and philosophizing Willoughby, and Tyler Hoechlin makes for an archetypal team captain as McReynolds, a swaggering hunk by turns upstanding and infantile.

Released by the cruel martinet Javert (Russell Crowe), he violates his parole, but manages to become an upstanding citizen (while hiding his past).

It doesn't help, either, that leading man Chris Evans is decent, upstanding but dull (and a bit thick, by the look of it), while Hayley Atwell as military liaison officer Peggy Carter is decorative, but seems to have been laminated with an invisible plastic coating.

Strip away the ancient Roman setting, and the screenplay credited to David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson is your basic revenge film: upstanding hero is wronged by despicable villain; hero looks to even the score.

In a future where consciousness is digitized and stored and death is evaded by implanting them into new bodies, an «Envoy» soldier named Takeshi Kovacs (Joel Kinnaman) is downloaded into the body of a disgraced police officer and employed to help solve the murder of an upstanding aristocrat (James Purefoy).

Mildred's idea of avenging Angela inevitably has a cascading effect, not only with Willoughby — played with upstanding directness and pathos by Harrelson — but also by his dumb - as - a-rock deputy, Dixon, portrayed in an amusingly scurrilous turn by Sam Rockwell.

The action implications of these findings, as well as some of the dos noted earlier, are to promote a genuine and broad sense of inclusiveness by educating for true understanding of diversity, especially as manifest in one's own school, to ensure that school codes of conduct and core values are integrated into everyday routines, including opportunities for student reflection and feedback on student report cards (versus being relegated to statements in handbooks or on web sites), and to require that all students are given systematic training in social problem solving or related social - emotional skills and encouraged specifically to use those skills in finding alternatives to mistreating others, seeking help effectively, and upstanding in the presence of injustice and inequity.

We can help students feel more engaged and connected to their schools by giving them roles in making the school a positive environment, such as participating in safety patrols, focusing on recycling, keeping public spaces clean, upstanding in the face of harassment and bullying, being on school committees to solve problems related to gangs or drugs and alcohol, and so on.

Faced with this crushing disappointment, I acted as would any upstanding citizen and snuck in, first using a colleague's pass and then by blending into the crowd of straw hats.

The essential difference between a Range Rover and the supercharged Sport is like second child syndrome; first borns are the upstanding offspring — good, reliable sorts that play it by the book.

That cemetery was also the only institution established by the pimps and whores of Buenos Aires that was built with a concession from the upstanding Jews.

For her, Come - By - Chance will be a place to hide, to start a new life — perhaps even somewhere to marry... Meanwhile, upstanding Billings Sheriff, Calvin Johnson, is on the trail of WANTED MURDERESS - Ophelia Trigger.A story of cat and mouse, give and take, and the difference between The Evidence and The Truth.The Come - By - Chance books are jam - packed with gun - totin» adventure, intrigue and true love, all se...

What most of us don't know is that, rather than being written by a meticulous, upstanding professional in business attire, the Climate Bible is produced by a slapdash, slovenly teenager who has trouble distinguishing right from wrong.

«On Kwiggle you're biking upright, almost upstanding but also supported by the seat.

A discharge is granted to an individual, otherwise an upstanding member of society, who would be significantly harmed by a criminal record.