He said that he supposed I had been brought up on the straight and narrow.
It wants financial markets to do more to keep banks on the straight and narrow.
It needs its Central Bank to keep it on the straight and narrow.
An elaborate arsenal of procedural rules and automatic triggers would be deployed to keep Congress on the straight and narrow.
He will intervene in public debates and write more books, all in his quest to keep Singapore on the straight and narrow.
The reason MPs are likely to stay on the straight and narrow is the fact that their claims will henceforward be published online.
Now the 2008 Crash made it impossible any longer to pretend that the system of keeping banks on the straight and narrow was working.
The actor vigorously defended his religion, Scientology, which he said had kept him on the straight and narrow since he was 24 years old.
The Palestinians may have re-offended during the recent intifada but, according to Mahmoud Abbas, their new president, they are back on the straight and narrow.
ECONOMIST: Can Hamas and Hizbullah be domesticated via the ballot box?
After a period of time spent on the straight and narrow, Sly is once again back in the game and, of course, his intentions are all good.
His job is to keep the ship on the straight and narrow, avoiding the twin dangers of inflation on the one side and recession on the other.
Mr. Draghi pointed to the imminent conclusion of a fiscal pact that will expand the scope for euro-zone countries to keep each other's budget policies on the straight and narrow.
One of the reasons I didn't act a fool when I was in school was because I feared my father taking the belt to my butt, and that was enough to keep me on the straight and narrow.
Cendant (nyse: CD - news - people ) has been under a microscope for the last couple of years following accounting irregularities associated with past acquisitions, and Dessauer says this should keep the company on the straight and narrow.
Cynics, citing the tangentopoli corruption scandal that hit Italian business and politics seven years ago, believe that lawyers are on Italian boards mainly to find loopholes and cover the tracks of scams, rather than to keep firms on the straight and narrow.
If you have the faintest idea what that means, you will be doing quite a lot better than quite a lot of the individuals who sit on the boards of big international banks and are supposed to keep them on the straight and narrow.
And I think it largely reflects their fears that if they fail to reflect the mood of the public that businesses have to be kept on the straight and narrow, the greater public will decided to take their savings to institutions whose relationship with businesses is more responsible.
Several countries have adopted rules designed to keep themselves on the fiscal straight and narrow.
ECONOMIST: The OECD and fiscal policy: Words of warning | The
America worries that such generosity could weaken Mr Kim's incentive to stay on the nuclear straight and narrow.
The hope is that the kind of big investors which buy bonds would put pressure on banks to stick to the straight and narrow.
Earlier this year I visited the East Side Young Leaders Academy which takes young kids who are wandering off the straight and narrow, and puts them back on the rails.
应用推荐