To be above reproach means to have a reputation for being honest, trustworthy and free from any wrongdoing or suspicion.
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Court of Appeal: The Court of Appeal focused on the private emails as unprofessional conduct, noting that a «charted accountant's status in the community at large means that his / her conduct will from time to time be the subject of scrutiny and comment... It follows that a chartered accountant must ensure that her conduct
is above reproach in the view of reasonable, fair - minded and informed persons.»
Furthermore, the Miata's repair
record is above reproach — it has long enjoyed high marks in Consumer Reports» reliability surveys.
1:6 [namely,] if any
man is above reproach, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, not accused of dissipation or rebellion.
«I hope we pick a leader
who is above reproach because public confidence in our body is shaken and needs to be restored.»
I find it a bit hypocritical that some of the bloggers want to lump us legal marketers all together, while at the same time, apparently think that everyone in the legal
profession is above reproach.
Judges should make every effort to ensure that their
conduct is above reproach in the view of reasonable, fair minded and informed persons.
Your
tastes are above reproach and your musical canon has been arrived at after more academic thought than a doctoral dissertation on the «Ebb and Flow of The Mental Qualitative State Due to the Societal Imperatives of Pezz Dispensers.»
There is much to admire about The Quiet American (its
professionalism is above reproach), but like Fred Schepisi's The Russia House, another screen translation of a hale British author's work directed by an Australian and starring a European and an American, coolness ultimately undermines its sweep and scope.
At least the dearth of frills grants the 2.40:1, 1080p transfer of the film itself a generous 42 GB berth, and the resulting
image is above reproach.
Unsurprisingly, this
disc is above reproach from a technical standpoint: the 2.32:1 anamorphic transfer has razor - sharp but not overenhanced edges, allowing for detailed shadows and an evocative reproduction of the «Minority Report» grain endemic to theatrical prints.
We have experienced a level of professionalism that
is above reproach by Dr. Brown and her very competent staff.
Kevin Anderson is deputy director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of Manchester, UK, so his green
credentials are above reproach.
Money does corrupt when someone is on the wrong side of the issue, and this collective notion was essentially encapsulated in IPCC Vice Chair Jean - Pascal van Ypersele's position of condemning skeptic scientist Dr S. Fred Singer for an association with the fossil fuel industry, while saying his own association with
Greenpeace was above reproach.
I'll grant that detailed material such as climate science is beyond the scope of politicians, bloggers and most college students, but when it comes to elemental accusations of corruption, people ranging from the President of the United States on down to college professors, bloggers and students like the one I feature here can undertake basic due diligence to see if the «industry - corrupted skeptic climate scientists»
accusation is above reproach.
At this time, private loyalty - review boards and anti-communist investigators began to appear to fill a growing demand among certain industries to certify that their
employees were above reproach.
Surely, this is something any believer of catastrophic man - caused global warming could also undertake in order to
be above reproach when asked what proof there is to back up the accusation.
Justice Doherty concluded, at paras. 73 - 4, that Justice Ray had allowed the seriousness of the charge to overwhelm the exclusion analysis and adopted what Justice S.D. Frankel said in R v Ahmed - Kadir, 2015 BCCA 346, at para. 111: «The importance of maintaining respect for Charter rights and ensuring that the justice
system is above reproach outweighs the collective cost of his acquittal.»
They are a large company with many interests and investments, but their business
ethics are above reproach — from 2008 to 2012, and again in 2014, The Hartford was honored as one of the Ethisphere's World's Most Ethical Companies.
So please, criticize away, nothing should
be above reproach or being criticized, why is it that you think religion should be?
Yet if we listen only to our cheerleaders, we become horribly inflated, as if
we are above reproach and far too virtuous for correction.
I thought the Biblical perspective was that elders are to have a good repuration with outsiders and to
be above reproach... and to not even have the appearance of evil... Sorry, on issues like this I'll take the apostle Paul over a magazine editor anyday.
On the field, the men are expected to
be above reproach.