Integrity
integrity (adjective) -
a. Being complete and in good condition, undamaged and without any missing parts
b. Acting according to moral principles so people trust and respect you
personal integrity
of high integrity
of tremendous integrity
complete integrity
lose integrity
lack integrity
preserve integrity
safeguard integrity
compromise integrity
undermine integrity
destroy integrity
restore integrity
financial integrity
assess financial integrity
financial integrity assessed for authorization purposes
maintain financial integrity
the structural integrity of a building
professional integrity
artistic integrity
data integrity
the integrity of a database
an integrity check on a database
the integrity of the system
methods by which the integrity and stability of the system can be maintained
her integrity is beyond question
the integrity of a stock exchange clearing house
in museum culture the physical integrity of an inventoried object is sacrosanct
the scope, depth and integrity of the painstaking work he undertook
integrity in politics as an ideal that conflicts with other ideals
moral integrity
political integrity
moral integrity and political reality rarely coincide
undermine public confidence in the integrity of the judiciary
integrity, ethics and pragmatism may have a bottom line value
the integrity of the police
professional integrity
abuse of professional integrity
integrity compromised
this may compromise my integrity
attack on my integrity
the territorial integrity of a sovereign state
maintaining the country's territorial integrity
* "Well, forgive me, Dr Smith, but I am not accustomed to having my personal and professional integrity questioned and quite frankly, I resent it."
* "In ordinary politics, however, we must treat integrity as an independent ideal if we accept it at all, because it can conflict with these other ideals."
* "This ensures that the integrity of the database is maintained."
* "All exchanges ensure that the integrity of their clearing house is beyond question so that people may invest in their derivative products without fear of default risk."
* "Of course it was also intended to make a fortune, and win awards for integrity and holiness."
* "Surely none of us can doubt his integrity."
* "The manual describes the methods by which the integrity and stability of the system can be maintained."
* "Quaker businessmen were meant to act with integrity and caution."
* "Doubt can have deep integrity, but it can also be lazy and dishonest."
* "The Conservative commitment is both to the re-creation of our civic pride and also the preservation and integrity of our rural heritage, founded on the core industry of agriculture."
* "Little attention has been paid to the assaults of the administration on the agency's scientific integrity."
* "Any action resulting in a corporate officer not being free of any interest which might detract or be seen to detract from his professional independence and integrity was reprimanded and ordered to pay a fine."
* "It does take courage (though perhaps not integrity) to rip up a picture of the Pope on prime-time TV."
* "I don't know about you, but courage and integrity are the words I always think of when I of that company."
* "She loved the avant-garde, but she was really a conservative woman of tremendous integrity."
* "In museum culture the physical integrity of an inventoried object is sacrosanct and the act of inventorying marks its transition into protective custody."
* Potential clients may wish to establish the financial integrity of the company before entering into a joint venture.
* "The main disagreements had centred on the question as to whether banking and securities firms should be allowed to include risk investments (ie shares in other companies), rather than merely cash deposits, when they were declaring the capital on which their financial integrity was assessed for authorization purposes."
* "The AMA argues, the Fifth Amendment requires that prices must be set at a level that permits any enterprise, including a physician's medical practice, to operate successfully, to maintain its financial integrity, to attract capital, and to compensate investors for the risk assumed."
* "And McGrindle spoke, very matter of fact though drunk as usual: I have sixteen children, seven by my first marriage, four by my second, my second wife had two of her own, that makes thirteen, and three from my third, sixteen, and I am proud to say I have been able to give them all a good education and every chance in life without ever compromising my integrity."
* "Perhaps they are sheepish about the efficiency or integrity of their testing systems, and unwilling to have them exposed to the public scrutiny that would follow if the banned athletes chose to take the matter further in law."
* "The result has been the stimulation of the perfectly natural reaction for those who rely on the priesthood for guidance in these matters, to become suspicious of the integrity of that hierarchy and, as more enlightened thinking proves to be less of a sin than is often implied, lose what faith had been generated."
* "Witnesses representing a wide range of interests paid a great many tributes to the integrity of the police."
* "Much more controversially, it may also be a contempt to scandalise the court and thereby undermine public confidence in the integrity of the judiciary."
* "The bitter lesson that he learned to his cost in 1939 was that moral integrity and political reality rarely coincide."
* "For those who have survived the recession intact there has been too much self-interest, need and greed, stab and grab, call it what you will, and companies I believe are suddenly beginning to realise that integrity, ethics and pragmatism may have a bottom line value in the years to come that the accountant's profit culture attitude may change a little."
* "This is nothing more or less than an abuse of your professional integrity."
* "Behind Lord Denning's concern to protect these institutions' reputation was the fear that they would be discovered to be other than how they try to protect themselves, and that their integrity would be compromised."
* "On Aug. 23 official statements from Algeria, Jordan, Libya, Sudan, Syria, Yemen and the Arab League also stressed the importance of maintaining Iraq's territorial integrity and warned that the exclusion zone plan would heighten regional tension."
* "The title of Aviation Secretary did no justice at all to the scope, depth and integrity of the painstaking work he undertook to make air racing a safe and professionally-run sport."
* "The equal protection cases show how important formal equality becomes when it is understood to require integrity as well as bare logical consistency, when it demands fidelity not just to rules but to the theories of fairness and justice that these rules presuppose by way of justification."
* "It is that position of political integrity the party must build on, even if it means a new collective leadership sooner rather than later."
* "These data show, therefore, that the ability of the gastric mucosa to defend itself against noxious challenges depends on the integrity of its sensory innervation, whereas the rapid repair processes taking place after injury do not require an intact sensory innervation."
