How To Use Upstanding In A Sentence
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But I think it came at a moment when Americans were particularly hungry for someone they could perceive as honest, upstanding, and a hero.
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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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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.
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Like some kind of hard-faced but upstanding sheriff in one of those wild west books Wesley took such delight in reading.
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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.
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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.
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You are upstanding members of the community who feel passionately about something.
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People - apparently respectable, upstanding people - actually justifying these unspeakable crimes.
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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.
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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
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The posse, originally presented to be the finest lawmen in the country, isn't quite as upstanding as their image would suggest either.
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Who could believe that someone so upstanding would stoop to besmear himself in the slush of Teapot Dome?
The Prize
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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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He clearly was neither a law-abiding person nor an upstanding member of the local community.
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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
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A human rights solicitor said that burglars had the same human rights as upstanding members of the community.
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So, being upstanding citizens they immediately called the rozzers, fearing that a drink-driving offence was about to be committed.
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I need referees who are of upstanding character and have known me for at least a year and can attest to my upstanding character.
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I had to show them what an upstanding group of councilmen should do.
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The punitive measures were designed to give customers confidence that association members were certain to be upstanding businessmen.
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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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You may think of yourself as an upstanding member of society who always pays their dues, but beware.
Times, Sunday Times
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They must be upstanding young gentlemen to be hanging around you two, " Sarah inserted plainly.
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You can expect the same vulgarity and crassness you have come to love from these fine upstanding pillars of society.
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They are potentially fine upstanding members of the community.
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To attack a decent and upstanding man in this low-down way is disgraceful.
The Sun
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When the practice first began in the 1930s, upstanding citizens were appalled.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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.
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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)
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He has earned the admiration of his peers and players with the upstanding way he goes about his business.
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Besides, the average oilman is too ethical and morally upstanding to work in such places only for profit.
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The upstanding citizen was able to make a collect call to his wife.
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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.
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The biggest problem though is that footballers hardly set a fine, upstanding example to anyone except perhaps hyenas.
The Sun
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We have upstanding members of our society, citizens who are willing to toe the line and know what the law is.
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Then come the seated goddesses Demeter and Kore, and the fine upstanding figure of Artemis the hunter.
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an upstanding member of the community
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Now that I found out he was an upstanding and respected police officer, I felt so helplessly worthless.
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The upstanding young man, a credit to his family, led astray by these degenerate celebrities and their scuzzball lifestyles.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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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
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You used to be such an upstanding member of your community.
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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.
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In its very first issue it portrayed the threat posed by young, nimble-fingered thieves to honest, upstanding citizens enjoying a day's outing.
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For one thing, the sanctimonious sermons by journalists about how virtuous and upstanding they are make them easy to detest.
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But neither of the victims, he concedes, were the most honest and upstanding of people.
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THEY'RE the upstanding citizens who take an unexpected tumble - committing crimes that go against all they stand for.
The Sun
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As if only those of upstanding character are bestowed with that other class of lottery win, inherited wealth.
Times, Sunday Times
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It gave him especial joy, he declared, to see so many young, upstanding men in the congregation.
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It's nice to know what a fine upstanding member of society he finds me.
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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
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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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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).
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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?
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She is regarded as an upstanding citizen in the local community.
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Fifa always appeared to be such a fine upstanding organisation.
The Sun
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The fine upstanding members of the city council were only doing their job, and it's the job that we elected them to do.
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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.
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She is regarded as an upstanding citizen in the local community.
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These are fine, upstanding, handsome men, who were all wearing their formal uniforms and drinking heavily.
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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.
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His girlfriend hardly has the best track record for fine, upstanding behaviour, does she?
The Sun
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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.
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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.
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Luckily, he succeeded, and is now an upstanding member of society.
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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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Thank goodness these upstanding countries are safeguarding human rights around the world.
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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
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He was a man of good character, a religious man and an upstanding member of the public.
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The new school was quite different with honorable upstanding "jocks" (we hated that stupid title).
My Peers are starting to get to me...
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He's supposed to be an upstanding member of society.
The Sun
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There were no collies in those days and many of the best sheep dogs were big upstanding and both smooth and rough coated.
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You can expect the same vulgarity and crassness you have come to love from these fine upstanding pillars of society.
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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
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