This defense attempts to shift attention from the allegations of wrongdoing onto the integrity of the individual.

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However, the authority said it and other bad decisions "were not the result of any lack of integrity by any individual and we did not identify any instances of fraud or dishonest activity by senior individuals or a failure of governance on part of the board".

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Specifically, they preach innovation, integrity, respect for individual initiative, tolerance for honest mistakes, product quality and reliability, reward based on merit and continuous improvement.

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First of all, whenever people ask me, why isn't Washington working -- I am a fierce defender of the integrity and hard work of individual members, which is, by the way, matched up by --when you look at polls, people hate Congress, but individual members a lot of them feel are really working hard on their behalf.

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In addition to providing consultations to individual agencies and maintaining a website with scientific integrity resources, OSTP hosted an interagency workshop in March to help executive agencies and departments craft their scientific integrity policies.

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"'On demand' postal voting is so difficult to control that I might go so far as suggesting that we should revert to the pre-2001 regulations if we cannot find a way of preserving the integrity of the process for the individual voter, " said Sir Albert.

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The majority of attorney generals, Republican and Democrat, from across the country have said this is somebody who can do the job with integrity, who has a tradition of being a bipartisan individual who looks out for the public interest, and is ready to go.

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We all have to figure out where our individual boundaries are in this regard and negotiate the trade-off between personal integrity and public acceptance.

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