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probity

proh buh tee

  • n  complete and confirmed integrity; having strong moral principles
    in a world where financial probity may not be widespread
    he enjoys an exaggerated reputation for probity

  • Residents were further outraged last week when the Miami Herald reported that Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez, one of the few Miami politicians with a reputation for probity, had .
  • Businessmen and women, in the main, pride themselves on probity, predictability.
  • President Rene Preval, respected for his probity but criticized for his lack of leadership and statesmanship, has been trying to improve Haiti's squalid conditions since taking .
News & Articles

  • European regulator preparing database on bankers
    By Laura Noonan LONDON (Reuters) - The European Union will soon begin sharing information on how bankers fare in 'fitness and probity' tests in member states, making it harder for errant bankers to evade regulatory scrutiny by crossing national borders. The European Banking Authority's regulation director Isabel Vaillant told Reuters that work will begin on the new fitness and probity database ...
    July 7, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
Quotes

  • Nick Clegg in Times Online
    Joining the demands, Mr Clegg told BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House: "As Chancellor, Alistair Darling occupies a very special position in Government. He needs to enjoy the public's trust when it comes to issues of financial probity, of money, of...
  • LK Advani in Hindu
    Mr. Advani said while "the Prime Minister's personal integrity is beyond doubt, it is now equally beyond doubt that he is neither able nor trying to enforce probity in his government:"
  • Kevan Jones in Telegraph.co.uk
    Kevan Jones, MP for Durham North, told the paper: "This is yet another example of the hypocrisy of the Tory party, who lecture others on probity and donations yet have myriad scams disguising the true funders of their party."

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