having clean hands

Suppose your main concern is having clean hands, which means, to you, not profiting personally from fossil fuels.

That’s important stuff: For medical professionals, having clean hands helps prevent the spread of infections at hospitals.

South Koreans as a whole have become less tolerant of corporate “princelings”, but in Samsung’s case at least it helps that the family’s third generation—Lee Jae-yong and his two sisters, who already run smaller bits of the empire—are seen as having clean hands.

The ministers who retained their posts had all been involved in fighting corruption and were known for having “clean hands,” Ghannouchi told Al Arabiya.

Speaking in an interview with Al Arabiya following his address, Ghannouchi said that those ministers who retained their posts had all been involved in fighting corruption and were known for having “clean hands.”