Sentences with word «upstanding»

A farm worker, Magnúsdóttir was sentenced to death for her part in the murder of two men and, due to the structure of the Icelandic legal system, spent her last days at an isolated farmhouse with a family of upstanding citizens watching over her.

It can mold us into fine upstanding members of society, or not.

Had he or anybody else said something back then, Sandusky would have been the only bad guy and the rest would have been regarded as upstanding citizens not POS cowards.

All of our educators are upstanding people with experience teaching teenagers and clean backgrounds and driving records.

While there are many, many good, honest, upstanding men in the dating pool, I've heard enough stories of scam artists to be cautious.

With his socially autistic brother (Richard Kind) and a lustful neighbour (Amy Landecker) also preying on his mind, Larry wonders whether he can ever be the kind of upstanding individual that his ethnicity demands of him.

From now on, your social media profiles should scream «fine upstanding citizen» at every turn.

The worst was we were escorted out to the parking lot and a wall of good upstanding Christian Boys made sure we would not sully their sacred grounds again.

Southern wrestling was about real heels and dirtbags taking on good old boys and clean - cut, nice, upstanding young men.

We were a good family who made good decisions and lived upstanding lives — surely our youngest was not caught up in that world.

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.

Crazy people claim lots of things but something tells me that if a random person on the street told you that he could fly, you would be a skeptic but make him a more upstanding member of society and all of a sudden it's not so insane?

Their good upstanding Christians well involved in their community and church.

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.

Anyone upstanding on a dating site will not push you into offline communication in their first message.

Unfortunately, those around Tom are not quite as morally upstanding.

But this shouldn't surprise you, as your character isn't the most upstanding citizen around (he's a murder suspect) and neither is the company he keeps.

There are also optional documents such as character reference letters or letters of recommendation from upstanding individuals that can help improve an application's strength.

UEFA (not a bastion of upstanding morals themselves) have just said they want the election postponed which means that others will most likely follow, and the authorities are tightening the noose.

In a recent workshop with high school students, I asked, «How can you make upstanding cool?»

Cuomo said he is not targeting individual lawmakers and, in fact, sees the commission as a chance for upstanding public servants to vindicate themselves in light of recent indictments and sexual harassment allegations among a handful of sitting lawmakers.

In an effort to make Fawcett a logical, upstanding guy, the story never fully convinces us of his obsession with returning to find the lost city.

It was frequently exasperating to see that Emmit didn't really bring doom down around his ears like previous seemingly upstanding citizens of Fargo, your Lester Nygaards (Martin Freeman) and your Peggy Blumquists (Kirsten Dunst).

The industry will be forced to sell more upstanding products, because the public won't put up with the industry's gouging any longer.

«They all unequivocally credited ayahuasca, when taken in the controlled setting of the church, as the catalyst for their evolution into upstanding citizens.»

The seemingly upstanding Captain Smith asks purist recruit Ed Exley (Guy Pearce) to rat out corrupt cops, in what seems to be a genuine effort to clean up the department, but Smith is merely covering his bases.

API has a kept its professional, upstanding reputation for decades now.

I am good upstanding American; I know this because I keep telling myself that I am and that makes it true.

Fine upstanding pillars of the community.

When I play RPG's, I'm the type who will do everything I can to be the most upstanding character I can be...

Bridget (Zellweger) resolves to improve her life and keep a diary at the start of the New Year, but when she falls for her philandering boss (Grant) and finds herself picturing a life with upstanding lawyer Mark Darcy (Firth), things get more interesting than she ever imagined.

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.

Sparks said he gets animals for the Park Pet Shop, which he runs with his parents, from upstanding breeders that treat their animals well.

But this doesn't mean the people using this technology are always upstanding citizens...

There is nothing fair or morally upstanding about the Aitken / Realtysellers seemingly in - bed - together behaviours in my opinion.

As someone who has gotten to know many of the younger artists in this exhibition, I can say that they are indeed upstanding ladies — far superior to the drunks, deadbeats, and louts that have made up much of the male art mafia over the past hundred years.

I had considered myself a very upstanding citizen who was contributing positively to my community.

Even after the Disco name was dropped for North America in 2004 with the launch of the third - generation model in favor of the LR3 moniker (which evolved to LR4 years later with the launch of the fourth - gen), the iconic SUV endeared itself to would - be adventurers as a tantalizing mixture of rugged grit and upstanding British appeal.

Alan: Managing brokers «should» ideally walk the fine line between encouraging business generation whilst at the same time demanding upstanding business behaviour, «or else», on the parts of their charges.

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But he's also playing the de facto leader of a trio of brothers who have long since been abandoned by their alcoholic father, who eventually quit drinking and started over with a whole new family (producing three nominally more upstanding sons in the process).