His, after all, was the candidacy of probity and honour.
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Its reputation for probity, competence and independence is in tatters.
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Worse, Mr Fillon insisted on his own reputation for probity.
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Comparatively, BB9 lacks any probity or concern for the present.
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Will we hear the same cries of fiscal probity again?
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He seemed to radiate an aura of probity and authority.
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The Teutonic obsession with fiscal probity grates in parts of Europe.
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The most important qualities for the job are probity and veracity.
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In absolute terms, I'd give Warren's plan a B- for fiscal probity.
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Comey pillories Trump for his excesses, for lacking probity and moral rectitude.
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Even some of her foes say the concern about her probity is overblown.
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The idea has support that extends well beyond those fixated on fiscal probity.
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Brazil's corruption-plagued Petrobras proves that public markets are no guarantee of probity.
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But Comey, with his trademark altar-boy probity, had a surprise for them.
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His probity and patriotism and commitment to public service were on full display.
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To many, he has become Mr. Trump's opposite: an avatar of justice and probity.
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It mixes virtue with profits; Tata's leaders are expected to exude decency and probity.
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Because of Obama's record of probity, these charges will carry a real weight of
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McCain relishes a reputation for probity, honor, and integrity while Trump revels in shamelessness.
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If only Pence's probity extended to his view of the man he works for.
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Even if it succeeded, that would tarnish PTI's claims of probity—its chief selling point.
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Any scandal would undermine his claim that his honesty alone will inspire probity in others.
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When Bill Clinton was president, evangelicals ranked moral probity high on their list of leadership qualities.
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So how did such an obvious con artist get a reputation for seriousness and fiscal probity?
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Since taking office, President Xi Jinping has cultivated an aura of austere probity and stern control.
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Intriguingly, though, such personal probity is not reflected in people's expectations of their fellow men and women.
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Kate Bedingfield, an aide to the former vice president, cast doubt on the probity of the election.
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Just a matter of time till someone whips out the Probity Probe and finds it, we're guessing.
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It had branded attacks on the Guptas as motivated by "white monopoly capital" rather than concern for probity.
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But your rare combination of political skill, personal probity, and steely ambition are a tough act to follow.
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Among political actors, norms of decency and probity – strained in the best of times – have been routinely flouted.
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But with Mr Thanathorn's reputation for probity (in contrast to Mr Thaksin), they would only create a martyr.
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For Mr. Ghosn, everything would then rest on the discretion and probity of the judge, a career bureaucrat.
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Pakistan's politicians are not paragons of probity, but corruption is not the main reason for Mr. Sharif's predicament.
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Saikawa is facing scrutiny from shareholders, former colleagues, the press and others about his own competence and probity. nyti.
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Things will be even worse if the Democrats themselves degenerate into squabbles over either ideological purity or fiscal probity.
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Mr Kumar enjoys a reputation for probity, an appealingly humble caste background and a record of getting things done.
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The immediate concern with the subsidy model is not about the honesty or probity of IFC staff and systems.
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" Mr. Brennan wrote: "It's astounding how often you fail to live up to minimum standards of decency, civility, & probity.
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The truth has now been powerfully revealed about the integrity and probity of Mueller personally and the Mueller investigation institutionally.
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He explained all this to the district director of the IRS in Boston, who knew of my father's utter probity.
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Over many years, they have maintained a reputation for probity and independence while disbursing some twenty billion dollars in funds.
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"The most important asset for someone like Thompson is his moral authority and his reputation for probity," Mr. Gillers said.
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Such action has raised questions about the credibility of the President's words and the probity of the US government itself.
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He took the helm in 2013 after a financial scandal that shattered the League's vaunted image as the party of probity.
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In this he is not alone among French politicians, but he is running for president on a ticket of unimpeachable probity.
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Since then, Gordhan has presented himself as a bulwark of good governance and probity, in contrast to the scandal-plagued Zuma.
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A President reacting in real time by attacking the probity of an investigation against him and wondering how to end it.
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" Former CIA director John Brennan: "It's astounding how often you fail to live up to minimum standards of decency, civility, & probity.
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Now, however, he says he will vote for a final version that is no better when it comes to fiscal probity.
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The Election Commission of India, which is responsible for the gadgets, enjoys a reputation for probity rare among the country's public institutions.
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He has given few details of how he will achieve this, but promises to set an example of probity from the presidency.
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"What I really liked was his talk about probity in politics," 27-year-old insurance employee Adelaide Vassor said after the rally.
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Kushner seems to see himself and his wife, Ivanka, as lonely voices of probity and moderation in an otherwise unhinged West Wing.
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They're animated by values — especially humility — and principles of probity, so they do the right things, especially when they're difficult or unpopular.
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The documentary serves, inadvertently, as a guide to how Communist cadres got away with playboy millionaires' lifestyles while preaching clean living and probity.
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A conservative former prime minister, he has campaigned on promises of absolute probity and a program of austerity to curb France's soaring deficit.
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DORIS FENIG, FLORAL PARK, N.Y. To the Editor: It must be magic to raise children in a household where probity has no meaning.
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He has also championed a law passed in 2014, which for the first time subjected universities to minimum standards for probity and educational outcomes.
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Meanwhile, his shadow treasurer, Chris Bowen, says he intends to prove to Australians that left-leaning Labor is also the party of fiscal probity.
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See also: Muslims, LGBT people, and really anyone else who falls short of the narrow standards of patriotism and probity espoused by conservative evangelicals.
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Opinion Columnist I came of age as a conservative in an era when Republicans were keen on matters of private virtue and public probity.
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At stake now, as then, is not just the probity of an individual, but the trustworthiness of the Holy See's system of financial governance.
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My editor, Joseph Ashbrook, who had a Ph.D. from Harvard, treated each word in every issue as a reflection of his own professional probity.
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After all, institutions that appear serially incapable of setting a budget or paying debts without months of brinkmanship do not reek of competence and probity.
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You are, after all, as a hedge fund client, about to hand over a substantial sum to people whose probity and ability you cannot measure.
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But now Mr. Saikawa, a lifelong Nissan employee, is facing scrutiny — from shareholders, former colleagues, the press and others — about his own competence and probity.
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Surely The Times understands that the probity of this investigation (and lack of leaks until now) is the basis for public confidence in its findings?
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Yet whether it is sufficiently shocking to have changed many people's view of Mr Trump's probity and fitness for the office he holds is unclear.
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A better characterisation of the antipathy to Mrs Clinton, which doubts about her probity reflected, was a vaguer sense that there was something inappropriate about her.
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But so must the absence of scandal in his White House, an exemplary probity that may seem even more of a recommendation in the years ahead.
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Bring it all together in a way that skewers any pretensions the subject might have to probity, and gratifies the reader by confirming all their prejudices.
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The NLRC said the amendments were necessary to "strengthen the framework for effective monitoring and control, and to ensure probity in foreign exchange transactions in Nigeria".
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Runner-up was an image of Hillary Clinton behind bars and the caption: "Hillary for prison 2016"—reflecting conservative scepticism about the Democratic front-runner's probity.
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The New South Wales gambling regulator said in an email that it would "now review all relevant issues when considering the required approvals and probity checks".
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Both parties have done away with any pretense of fiscal probity, so the national debt continues its stratospheric ascent, mortgaging our future and hamstringing future generations.
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For Republicans, though, politics is an unending morality play, in which the probity of the dramatis personae is all-defining, punctuated by occasional battles of ideas.
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Indeed, his general lack of probity is probably disqualifying on its own and certainly provides ample reason for senators to prefer a different, ideologically identical nominee.
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Up an escalator, a vast neoclassical banking hall stretches the length of the block, wrapped by a mural depicting ancient civilizations and quotations about financial probity.
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Because of Stanton's administrative skills and widely known probity, Lincoln installed the Democrat as a successor to his corrupt secretary of war, Simon Cameron, in 1862.
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The court was acting in response to a case filed by 14 Angolan lawyers who accused the president of nepotism and violation of the Angolan probity law.
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Critics might reply that giving one robot "rights" in a ceremony designed to draw attention to a lavishly-funded tech conference doesn't indicate any particular ethical probity.
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Too minor, perhaps, to have serious political ramification, yet too serious to ignore, the scandal may represent another blow against public probity by a rule-breaking president.
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On June 9, a group of lawyers led by David Mendes and Luis Nascimento challenged the manner of her appointment, saying it went against public probity laws.
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You do not have to believe Mr Sharif to be a model of probity to think that the court overstepped its bounds in its pursuit of him.
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A group of lawyers has filed a lawsuit accusing the president of nepotism and violating Angolan probity by appointing her as head of the state oil firm.
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Compared to the Roman gladiator debates of recent Democratic and Republican presidential campaign cycles, the first 2628 primary debate was an exercise in civility, probity and policy.
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S. Nightfall" in a poem, and said his prose was scarred by his "repulsion towards Negroes" and the "self-disfiguring sneer that is praised for its probity.
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At 28, on his way to Germany in 1935, Varian Fry of New York, born to affluence and Protestant probity, was just such an impressionable young man.
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Assuming no dishonesties were involved in CNN's actions, cashiering the journalists does less to uphold the network's reputation for probity than it does to advance Trump's work.
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Yet his record as journalist, legislator, London mayor and foreign secretary displays far more bluster than achievement, and a disdain for hard work, probity or the truth.
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Another building block in the apparent efforts of the administration and its allies to cast doubt on the probity of the Mueller probe could come later Monday.
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Team Sky, the British-run cycling outfit in whose colours Sir Bradley won the Tour de France in 2012, has also portrayed itself as a pillar of probity.
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Even so, it is unprecedented in modern French election history and flies in the face of the image of probity that helped him win the center-right ticket.
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They both had many decades of public service between them so they really understood how the government works and they were known for their probity, smarts and fairness.
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Some commentators seem surprised at the way men who talked nonstop about fiscal probity under Barack Obama cheerfully supported tax cuts that will explode the deficit under Trump.
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Even more eye-catching was last week's announcement by the Netherlands, one of the euro zone's fiercest advocates of fiscal probity, of new spending on health and housing.
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Mr. Fillon was accused of embezzling public funds during his time in Parliament, upending a campaign that was, in large part, based on a projected image of probity.
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His was a darkly luminous, even claustrophobic poetry, brooding over the horrors of European history and the difficulty of attaining moral probity in a world seemingly abandoned by God.
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There is a lack of probity at the highest levels of the party, as seen in the imprisonment of former members, including the former chief of security, Zhou Yongkang.
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Flag-waving claims of patriotism, pious invocations of morality, stern warnings about fiscal probity are all cover stories for an underlying agenda mainly concerned with making plutocrats even richer.
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The case, along with accusations against other senators, embarrassed Mr. Harper, who crusaded against corruption in the rival Liberal Party and whose government projected an image of fiscal probity.
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Given your own reputation for probity, you must be troubled as well by the broader pattern of this president's behavior, including his contempt for ethical standards of past presidents.
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That was why, they suggested, Mr. Bentley was able to cling to his job for nearly 13 months after his reputation as a paragon of probity came under fire.
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Murphy said Williams' "excellent reputation both for probity and for being an aggressive prosecutor for many years ... of police misconduct cases" helped relieve concerns many had about the legal process.
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Despite his reputation for probity, Mr. Karzai had cash in two German bank accounts and never revealed the account numbers to enable auditors to verify his holdings, the report said.
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For Republicans nationwide, it's an acid test: side with a mercurial president who demands devotion, or with the attorney general, who insists on probity and the letter of the law.
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" Imposing at 6-foot-1, awkward in manner and blunt in her probity, she became a regular foil for late-night comics and a running gag on "Saturday Night Live.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - An Indonesian prosecutor has named 18 people as suspects in a graft case related to the erection of an anti-corruption monument meant to champion probity in public affairs.
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This goes in particular for Mr. Ryan, who has received extraordinarily favorable press treatment over the years — portrayed as an honest, serious policy wonk with a sincere concern for fiscal probity.
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Expectations concerning his general probity, his commitment to paying his fair share of taxes, and his ability to distance himself from meddling Russians and dictators who flatter him are similarly low.
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But he's bobbing and weaving his way through, refusing to answer even straightforward questions, displaying an evasiveness utterly at odds with the probity we used to expect of Supreme Court justices.
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The smart course is to let Robert Mueller do his work, defend his probity and the integrity of his investigation, and only draw conclusions from the facts as he finds them.
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Daisy (Sophie McShera), the tart kitchen maid, is making eyes at a saucy plumber, and a butler emergency coaxes Carson (Jim Carter), that reliably priggish defender of probity, out of retirement.
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It seems to me that these perennial public shaming exercises are more a performance aimed at proving the shamers' own moral probity than having anything to do with you buying coke.
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Even though Britain never acceded to the E.U.'s open borders or single currency, it has been a leader of Western Europe, a bastion of democratic values, economic probity and military reliability.
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Political Memo He breezily passed along falsehoods, trafficked in outlandish conspiracy theories, and more or less asked for the scorn he received from the fact-checking guardians of probity in public life.
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Among conservatives, the West's technological innovations, including those pioneered in Silicon Valley, are often admired while its political and cultural influence is regarded as a dangerous threat to Saudi Arabia's moral probity.
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That is akin to a spam email or another type of spoof that has a modest impact on the market and does not raise questions about the probity of the financial system.
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If anyone can convince a divided America that impartial probes are still possible, it may be Mr Mueller, who is held as a model of probity and was appointed by George W. Bush.
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It is also hard to persuade players to be clean when there are so many questions about the probity of sports administrators, for example over the choice of World Cup and Olympics hosts.
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Conduct standards for individuals and firms will also be introduced and the Irish Central Bank's Fitness and Probity Regime, brought in after the banking crisis to vet senior executives, will also be enhanced.
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"We today who have been given the opportunity to effect changes that could open new vistas of progress for our nation, will strive to discharge our duties with probity and humility," she said.
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The ministry has won plaudits over the past five years for relative fiscal probity and for bringing in a long-awaited national goods-and-services tax (GST) to replace a web of local duties.
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He argued for Labor's old strengths, such as supporting public health and education, while his shadow treasurer (finance minister), Chris Bowen, worked to persuade voters that Labor could match the coalition in fiscal probity.
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"Mr Flowers failed in his duty to lead by example and to meet the high standards of integrity and probity demanded by the role," said Mark Steward, executive director of enforcement at the FCA.
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Two of Macron's main opponents were hamstrung by corruption allegations during the bitter battle for the presidency and his government has put political probity front and centre in its first two weeks in power.
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The difference is that, unlike Mr. Fillon, who has campaigned on a platform of probity and high ethics, Ms. Le Pen has never "presented herself as the incarnation of republican morality," Mr. Caron said.
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As for my second concession: Anyone old enough to remember Judge Robert H. Bork's confirmation battle in 1987 will not have forgotten the anti-Bork television commercial narrated by Hollywood's icon of probity, Gregory Peck.
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This image is placed in tension with an emerald green 1998th-century-style backdrop, swagged to bursting with damask fruit that lends a gorgeousness, and an imprimatur of mainstream probity, to the otherwise discomfiting scene.
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A series of high-profile corruption scandals among politicians, in a country that prides itself on its probity, have angered Chileans, and both the government and opposition have seen approval ratings drop into the teens.
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Erica Giovanni Baez, a divorce lawyer, has "huge concerns" about the Democratic nominee's probity, citing alleged access-peddling at the Clinton Foundation, a charity founded by ex-president Bill, while Mrs Clinton was Secretary of State.
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Members of Duvdevan do not recount past missions––those "have to remain dark," Raz said––but they speak in highly moralistic terms about the unit, how they were selected for their sense of probity and poise.
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If it is false, the work of a faulty or disoriented memory, then he is in a legitimately terrible position, with a lifetime's reputation for probity at stake and no clear way to clear his name.
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I have known Volker as an individual of the utmost probity, and he, like the most seasoned American diplomats, clearly understands the need for all sides to feel as though they are coming out as winners.
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And it should be true — for the sake of their souls, I sincerely hope it's true — of the Republican leaders whose reputations for probity and principle he has stomped all over since winning their party's nomination.
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The affair could be all the more damaging because the image of Mr. Fillon has been based on probity and austerity, and he has called for sacrifices from the French, including cuts to civil servant jobs.
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Buhari has a reputation for personal probity and has pledged to crack down on corruption in Nigeria, Africa's top oil producer and most populous nation where generations of politicians have looted public coffers for their personal gain.
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Yet great responsibility enlarged him: Washington rightly embodies the sacrifice of personal interests to a greater good, as well as other republican virtues — probity, dignity, moral stamina, incorruptibility — that should remain true north for every citizen today.
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And the news media, I'm sorry to say, both bought into the narrative that deficits were our most important problem — abandoning the usual conventions of reportorial neutrality — and took G.O.P. claims of fiscal probity at face value.
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"Giuliani is a famous federal prosecutor of the United States, who has fought with the mafia and corruption, and whose moral and professional probity commands respect all over the world," Dragnea claimed in response to Giuliani's efforts.
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Yet that policy would acknowledge that euro-area countries share a fiscal fate, relieve young Italians of doing penance for their forebears' sins and make fiscal probity for Italy a less Sisyphean task—and, perhaps, more politically tolerable.
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The investigation and the coverage of it by the press have raised questions about the probity of the people Mr Anaya's firm dealt with, about the size of the profit it made and about the tax it paid.
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The tension between owners of capital, who want top returns but can't reliably judge the skills and probity of managers, and those managers, who want to thrive in their careers, is one of the central problems in investing.
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On one hand, the attorney whom Mr Barr has put in charge of the investigation—John Durham, the chief federal prosecutor in Connecticut—is respected across the political spectrum for his apolitical thoroughness as well as his probity.
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In theory, this is supposed to keep fund managers honest, giving investors clear standards by which to judge and minimizing the conflicts of interest inherent in giving money to someone whose skills and probity you cannot know in advance.
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If Wells Fargo's statements about its own integrity and ethical probity are too vague to be taken seriously, according to the company itself, why would anyone invest with Wells, or for that matter, put their money in its banks?
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Despite the apparent surge of young support for Saied as president, he has been careful to make no promises about what Tunisia's future holds, only to pledge his personal probity and insist that he will rigidly uphold the law.
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In the 2020 presidential field, the contender most apt to adopt the familiar rhetoric of special female probity is Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, who puts a modern, working-mom spin on the image of old-fashioned maternal rectitude.
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The investigation is embarrassing for Macron who has put political probity front and center of his first weeks in power, ahead of legislative elections where Macron hopes his new party will win control of parliament and cement his grip on power.
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And as a lawyer — put the president to the side briefly — does he really want to face a potential ethical violation by making statements on behalf of a client if he did not first vet the probity of those statements?
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This was in the midst of the most bitterly contested election the country has had in decades, with important things at stake: the probity of government, relations with the Diaspora, the limits of the settlement enterprise, the possibility of peace.
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He is gravedigging, with probity, with the greatest reverence for the craft they share, and in this way is saying thank you in the only way one writer can really say it to another, which is by writing about them well.
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Some optimistic Deutsche Bank officials even believe that because the bank has refused to publicly divulge much about its famous client, it might emerge with an enhanced reputation for probity and discretion — and for getting big things done for desperate customers.
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ITT's chief executive, Harold S. Geneen, maintained that the company's $22016,21982 payment for "supporting the democratic, anti‐Communist cause" in Chile had been legal and that it had not been used to support violence, but Mr. Rohatyn's reputation for probity suffered.
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"I trust the FBI and Special Counsel Robert Mueller, an experienced, skilled prosecutor, and a man of exceptional probity and character, to separate fact from fiction, and get to the bottom of the so-called dossier," the Arizona senator wrote.
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"It's obvious that with an investigation of this nature weighing on him, [Labos] does not have the required credibility nor the legitimacy to ensure to supervise the probity of our members," said union president Yves Francoeur in a press release requesting Labos' removal.
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The indirect cost to Mr Trump of Mr Sessions's recusal is that the FBI probe has now been passed to an independent counsel, Mr Mueller, a former FBI director with a reputation for probity and rigour earned under both Republican and Democratic administrations.
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Only Mueller, with his reputation for probity and credibility among Democrats, could have prevented the collusion narrative from achieving the status of unshakable faith among millions of Americans, akin to the false "Bush lied, people died" narrative that still dogs the 43rd president.
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After the 1953 death of the country's founding king, Abdul-Aziz al-Saud, Saudi Arabia was crippled for a decade by a power struggle between his successor, the profligate King Saud, and Crown Prince Faisal, a leader respected for probity and self-discipline.
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The Times editorial page urged the deputy attorney general, a career government lawyer, to "save your honor": call for a special prosecutor to investigate the Trump campaign's involvement with Russia and cash in a lifetime of probity chips if necessary to do it.
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So to win elections it must obscure its true policies — like the Republicans now claiming, falsely, that they want to protect Americans with pre-existing medical conditions — and constantly pretend to stand for things it doesn't actually care about, from fiscal probity to personal responsibility.
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Americans endure an FBI director whose probity is doubted by half the nation after he egregiously interfered in the last presidential election, which helped elect the president to whom he now owes his job, while the bureau he leads purportedly investigates matters that may involve the president.
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Rick Santorum -- who won the Iowa caucuses in 2012 but lost a knock-on advantage after it was initially declared Mitt Romney was the winner -- said on CNN that it was now vital for state officials to clear up any doubts about the probity of the caucuses.
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We call upon the Minister of Culture and National Heritage Piotr Gliński not to appoint Piotr Bernatowicz to the position of the director of the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, and to carry out an open competition procedure in accordance with the appropriate standards of transparency and probity.
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"The American people can be forgiven for a healthy skepticism about just how hard Mr. Trump could have pressed the Russian autocrat, given that the President publicly cast doubt on Russian responsibility and the probity of our intelligence agencies only the day before," Schiff said in a statement.
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That suits the mood of sorrow (le Carré long ago persuaded us that a country can fray and fail as easily as a marriage), and it also suggests why Perry might accede to Dima's plea—not out of moral probity or patriotic duty but simply for the thrill.
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He is particularly—and with good reason—tough on elected judges, who know that being "tough on crime" will always win more votes than promises of sober fairness and probity; and on forensic science, a contributing factor in nearly half of all wrongful convictions (second only to false eyewitness accounts).
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So when Rosenstein announced that he had appointed a special counsel, it had the feel of a career lawyer with a reputation for probity and nonpartisanship striking a blow at a White House that had thrown him under the bus by trying to make him the scapegoat for the Comey firing.
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House Democrats led off their highly anticipated impeachment hearings on Wednesday with a figure projecting probity, a combat veteran turned career diplomat who narrated with a deep baritone voice reminiscent of Walter Cronkite's what he saw as the corruption of American foreign policy to advance President Trump's personal political interests.
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" The petition argued that Barroso's appointment was "irresponsible" because it "feeds into a political context which is not only euroskeptic but now even openly europhobic" and that "It is morally reprehensible, in that it runs counter to the honour and probity of a European civil service supposed to defend the general European interest.
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By maintaining fiscal integrity and personal probity — he stuck to his rule never to be alone with a woman other than his wife — Mr. Graham kept himself untarnished by the kind of sex and money scandals that brought down evangelists and religious broadcasters like Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart in the 22013s.
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Early into another season in which Jackson may not have rebuilt the Knicks to the satisfaction of the long-frustrated fan base or his Madison Square Garden boss, James L. Dolan, he was back in the public cross hairs last week as a self-appointed arbiter of the N.B.A.'s purity and probity.
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VICHY — All French Cabinet ministers, secretaries of state and other high functionaries and notables will henceforth take an oath of allegiance personally to and in the presence of the Chief of the French state, binding themselves to ''discharge their duties for the welfare of the state according to the laws of honor and probity.
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A Democratic Congress should forcefully back special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony Kellyanne Conway: 'I'd like to know' if Mueller read his own report MORE and conduct hearings and investigations with integrity and probity that have been abysmally lacking under GOP rule.
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She was alternately capable of appearing to be a picture of probity, a sable-draped voluptuary, a faddist nut job (for a classic 1976 edition of "Soul Train," a buxom Franklin performed her single "Jump" dressed in a Creamsicle-colored fringed mesh poncho with an observable lack of supporting undergarments) or one of nature's born royals.
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These Relatives of Mexico's Disappeared Are Combing the Desert Looking for Bodies Meanwhile, the federal force is also beset by accusations of institutionalized corruption and human rights abuse, despite numerous expensive attempts stretching back to the late 1990s to put its professionalism, probity, and effectiveness above question, as it takes on an ever greater role in combating drug violence.
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So, no surprise then that when Russia was faced with its own internal discord this week—large-scale anti-corruption protests against the country's prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev—it turned once again to an American "celebrity" to help sell its vision of itself as a country of strength and probity battling nobly against the forces of dissipation and violent illegitimacy and darkness.
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"Rudolph Giuliani is a famous federal prosecutor of the United States, who has fought with the mafia and corruption, and whose moral and professional probity commands respect all over the world," Mr. Dragnea said in a statement, adding that the scrutiny on what he called the "serious violation of human rights and of the principles of the rule of law" was welcome.
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Because even his opponents know there can be no gainsaying his ability to serve as president; or his talent for appointing competent deputies; or his mastery of the mechanics of government; or his overwhelmingly successful tenure as New York mayor; or his understanding of business and the economy; or his immediate credibility on the world stage; or his sobriety of judgment or general probity of character.
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They are still suffering from what Pete Spiliakos, in a withering column for First Things last month, called "The Romney Disease" — a condition that combines admirable personal probity and decency with an abiding commitment to unpopular economic policies: The best of the current Republicans (the Paul Ryans, the Ben Sasses, the Mitt Romneys) have certain common features that should be appealing to the electorate.
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"Even his opponents know there can be no gainsaying his ability to serve as president; or his talent for appointing competent deputies; or his mastery of the mechanics of government; or his overwhelmingly successful tenure as New York mayor; or his understanding of business and the economy; or his immediate credibility on the world stage; or his sobriety of judgment or general probity of character," he writes.
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Over the years, tens of millions of dollars flowed into a series of shell companies — Escutcheon Investment, with its money at the Banca Privada in the Pyrenees principality of Andorra; Probity Investments, with deposits at Andbanc Grup Agricol, also in Andorra; Royal Pacific Investments, with deposits at Balboa Securities in Panama; and Valdano Investments Group, with deposits at Berenberg Bank in Switzerland, among others, the bank records and other documents show.
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"His suggestion that his participation in IAAF Council business should be a matter of his own discretion on a meeting by meeting and issue by issue basis is, in the Integrity Unit's view, inadequate in the light of the seriousness of the matters, the subject of investigation, and the importance of ensuring and being seen to ensure the utmost standards of probity in the administration of the sport," it said.
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Chung cited personal reasons for his decision, but the announcement came as he found himself under mounting pressure to step down after an audit into a multimillion-dollar project to build a new headquarters for the O.F.C. Chung's exit, only days before the O.F.C.'s annual meeting and two months before the World Cup opens in Russia, raised unwelcome questions for FIFA about the probity of the leaders who run the world's most popular sport.
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A steadfast feminist in a male-dominated art world, Joanna Drew was among a handful of individuals who shaped contemporary visual art in Great Britain post-World War II. Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Miss Drew is a modest and self-effacing lady with exceptional taste and artistic probity; many crucial exhibitions (for example Arp, David Smith) have gained in clarity from her tact, and I refer to all this only because Joanna Drew works inside the anonymity of the Arts Council, which harbours several other dedicated and unsung individuals….
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Even before finalizing a $145 million settlement with customers, the bank now faces a new set of allegations, including: That it made unauthorized changes to customer mortgages, with some borrowers claiming the practice sent them into bankruptcy; That its loan-issuing process is discriminatory; that it forced roughly 800,000 customers in New York and California to buy unwanted auto insurance Why it matters: Wells Fargo's situation illustrates how even banks with reputations for probity can fall into the trap of scandal, given large, public bank incentives to please investors with ever higher profits.
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Along with Venezuela, the new members include such models of human rights probity as Libya (where an authoritarian government or armed groups outside its control engage in extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests, human trafficking, rape, and torture); Mauritania (an Islamic republic with sharia law where nearly 100,85033 people are slaves, freedom of religion or expression is punishable by death, prison torture is common, and human rights advocates and journalists are jailed); and Sudan, where genocide, murder, rape, and torture were common and human rights advocates and journalists were assaulted under Omar Al-Bashir, and where the military government that ousted him this year has cracked down violently on peaceful protests and shut down the internet.
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