Sentences with phrase «upstanding american»

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

But as time went on it wasn't clear why such a college should prefer a Reformed, even a Protestant or Christian, faculty if all upstanding Americans with equal academic training could contribute to an equally acceptable moral and societal end.

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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.

If three of four upstanding British citizens can be brainwashed into voluntarily committing armed robbery in two weeks of «motivational therapy» sessions, then what has been the impact of years and years of escalating invective on the American political sphere?

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.