rectitude

Burnham's smug sense of rectitude gets her superior officer killed.

Germany’s budget crisis has given new momentum to reforming self-imposed borrowing limits even among the opposition conservatives, as hunger for sorely needed investment trumps an earlier political obsession with fiscal rectitude.

Germany’s budget crisis has given new momentum to reforming self-imposed borrowing limits even among the opposition conservatives, as hunger for sorely needed investment trumps an earlier political obsession with fiscal rectitude.

It was superb theatre, with the added benefit of moral rectitude.

As a result of this independence and rectitude, Romney has become a pariah among his GOP Senate colleagues and a target of seething anger and threats of violence from his constituents.