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  • But neither of the victims, he concedes, were the most honest and upstanding of people.
  • She is regarded as an upstanding citizen in the local community.
  • Perhaps U2 should call themselves You Two/Too to avoid promoting textspeak among the youth, and The Killers could morph into The Upstanding Pillars Of The Community?
  • We stand on opposite sides of a battlefield - a lolicon against an upstanding citizen; a man who demands 'plot' against a style hound; a self-depreciator against a self-aggrandizer (hint: I'm the latter). Anime Nano!
  • She had changed the story about my father into one in which he seemed more like a hero or an upstanding member of society struggling against an addiction and winning.
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  • It meant that you and your family were fine upstanding people to be trusted with other people's money and secrets. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's nice to know what a fine upstanding member of society he finds me.
  • It gave him especial joy, he declared, to see so many young, upstanding men in the congregation.
  • As if only those of upstanding character are bestowed with that other class of lottery win, inherited wealth. Times, Sunday Times
  • THEY'RE the upstanding citizens who take an unexpected tumble - committing crimes that go against all they stand for. The Sun
  • Fifa always appeared to be such a fine upstanding organisation. The Sun
  • For one thing, the sanctimonious sermons by journalists about how virtuous and upstanding they are make them easy to detest.
  • In its very first issue it portrayed the threat posed by young, nimble-fingered thieves to honest, upstanding citizens enjoying a day's outing.
  • But he consistently strove to be an upstanding member of society, to raise a healthy family, and to make a meaningful contribution to the world.
  • You used to be such an upstanding member of your community.
  • If you're a glutton for Dickens and you'll need to be, with the BBC already stuffing its schedules with the forthcoming bicentenary of his birth, jolly spoofery abounds in The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff, which features Robert Webb as an upstanding Victorian retailer of nonsense items thrown into sudden penury by bewhiskered evil Stephen Fry in a stovepipe hat. Phil Hogan's Christmas TV highlights
  • For more than four decades the father-of-two lived as a devoted family man, successful businessman and upstanding member of the community in rural Buchlyvie, Stirlingshire.
  • The upstanding young man, a credit to his family, led astray by these degenerate celebrities and their scuzzball lifestyles. Times, Sunday Times
  • Now that I found out he was an upstanding and respected police officer, I felt so helplessly worthless.
  • Luckily, he succeeded, and is now an upstanding member of society.
  • Meetings ARE the life blud of a good democracy, were hard graft is worked out, all good upstanding leaches work out the details of getting the credit. from the saying if thee cannot do, then teach how, if that is not possible then preach about it and if that is too hard, leach otherwise curl up and fade away. on July 16, 2009 at 12: 25 am PC World Everything But The Girl « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • You can expect the same vulgarity and crassness you have come to love from these fine upstanding pillars of society.
  • There were no collies in those days and many of the best sheep dogs were big upstanding and both smooth and rough coated.
  • He's supposed to be an upstanding member of society. The Sun
  • The new school was quite different with honorable upstanding "jocks" (we hated that stupid title). My Peers are starting to get to me...
  • He was a man of good character, a religious man and an upstanding member of the public.
  • The dates of their deaths are very clearly marked by the different fashions of their dresses -- a compact and upstanding ruff adds to the stiff precision of the first wife's appearance; while the sloping lines of a 'Vandyke' collar embellish the dress of the fourth. Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
  • Thank goodness these upstanding countries are safeguarding human rights around the world.
  • The cop is left languishing in prison while the crook makes the most of his new life as an upstanding family man. The Sun
  • an upstanding member of the community
  • Even at a time when a jaded public will cheerily presume the worst about its ‘upstanding’ figures, this clear-eyed dissection of a lie shows just how much the truth can hurt.
  • If you find the term prostitution too upsetting of a term to see used for something nice guys and their decent, upstanding wives do, perhaps you would prefer “transactional sex?” International Marriage Broker Act passes! Plus, Bush admin refuses to release rules to help battered immigrant women.
  • His girlfriend hardly has the best track record for fine, upstanding behaviour, does she? The Sun
  • In contrast, Bertie Carvel's fine, upstanding Karl is both latter-day Robin Hood, punishing his gang's excesses, and Hamletesque brooder meditating on life and death.
  • These are fine, upstanding, handsome men, who were all wearing their formal uniforms and drinking heavily.
  • She is regarded as an upstanding citizen in the local community.
  • These people are modest, upstanding, hard-working honest people and a lot of us could learn a lesson or two from them in how to treat both man and animals.
  • The fine upstanding members of the city council were only doing their job, and it's the job that we elected them to do.
  • Several miles further on a solitary upstanding column of rock represented an opossum man who rested here, looked about the country, and left spirit children behind him; a low range of remarkably white quartzite hills indicated a large number of white ant eggs thrown here in the _wingara_ [146] by the Munga-munga women as they passed across the country. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia
  • I had to show them what an upstanding group of councilmen should do.
  • I need referees who are of upstanding character and have known me for at least a year and can attest to my upstanding character.
  • So, being upstanding citizens they immediately called the rozzers, fearing that a drink-driving offence was about to be committed.
  • A human rights solicitor said that burglars had the same human rights as upstanding members of the community.
  • Meetings ARE the life blud of a good democracy, were hard graft is worked out, all good upstanding leaches work out the details of getting the credit. from the saying if thee cannot do, then teach how, if that is not possible then preach about it and if that is too hard, leach otherwise curl up and fade away. on July 16, 2009 at 12: 25 am PC World Everything But The Girl « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • He clearly was neither a law-abiding person nor an upstanding member of the local community.
  • The cop is left languishing in prison while the crook makes the most of his new life as an upstanding family man. The Sun
  • Who could believe that someone so upstanding would stoop to besmear himself in the slush of Teapot Dome? The Prize
  • The posse, originally presented to be the finest lawmen in the country, isn't quite as upstanding as their image would suggest either.
  • The punitive measures were designed to give customers confidence that association members were certain to be upstanding businessmen.
  • An upstanding member of the community who has been deeply involved in prison matters for many years called me in distress just a month or so ago.
  • People - apparently respectable, upstanding people - actually justifying these unspeakable crimes.
  • You are upstanding members of the community who feel passionately about something.
  • Or Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown probably too art-housey for this list, which is a fine, upstanding film, as long as you ignore everything in it that pretends to be a historical fact. Film
  • Reefer Madness" tells the story of Jimmy Harper, an upstanding youth who becomes a whacked-out pot fiend after one 'toke' of the evil reefer. BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content
  • Like some kind of hard-faced but upstanding sheriff in one of those wild west books Wesley took such delight in reading. BEHINDLINGS
  • The upper wall 56 of the bin 54 for the unweighed feed f includes a flange 62 receiving the lower end of an upstanding conveyor generally designated 64.
  • The cop is left languishing in prison while the crook makes the most of his new life as an upstanding family man. The Sun
  • My mare had fulfilled all our expectations and presented us with a healthy, upstanding young colt; who would go on to win many a class alongside his mum.
  • Then come the seated goddesses Demeter and Kore, and the fine upstanding figure of Artemis the hunter.
  • We have upstanding members of our society, citizens who are willing to toe the line and know what the law is.
  • The biggest problem though is that footballers hardly set a fine, upstanding example to anyone except perhaps hyenas. The Sun
  • Mr Watts-Jones told the court his client had outgrown the misbehaviour of his youth and become an upstanding member of the community, with a respectable job, a wife and two teenage children.
  • The upstanding citizen was able to make a collect call to his wife.
  • Besides, the average oilman is too ethical and morally upstanding to work in such places only for profit.
  • He has earned the admiration of his peers and players with the upstanding way he goes about his business.
  • So buckra is really, well-to-do, upstanding, well-padded white people. Oral History Interview with Modjeska Simkins, May 11, 1990. Interview A-0356. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
  • But I think it came at a moment when Americans were particularly hungry for someone they could perceive as honest, upstanding, and a hero.
  • If you're a glutton for Dickens and you'll need to be, with the BBC already stuffing its schedules with the forthcoming bicentenary of his birth, jolly spoofery abounds in The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff, which features Robert Webb as an upstanding Victorian retailer of nonsense items thrown into sudden penury by bewhiskered evil Stephen Fry in a stovepipe hat. Phil Hogan's Christmas TV highlights
  • When the practice first began in the 1930s, upstanding citizens were appalled. Times, Sunday Times
  • To attack a decent and upstanding man in this low-down way is disgraceful. The Sun
  • They are potentially fine upstanding members of the community.
  • You can expect the same vulgarity and crassness you have come to love from these fine upstanding pillars of society.
  • They must be upstanding young gentlemen to be hanging around you two, " Sarah inserted plainly.
  • You may think of yourself as an upstanding member of society who always pays their dues, but beware. Times, Sunday Times
  • The cop is left languishing in prison while the crook makes the most of his new life as an upstanding family man. The Sun

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