Sentence examples for But honourably from inspiring English sources

Pedantic, of course; but honourably and essentially so".

Click on the link provided and you discover the luckless reviewer receiving a lashing was, erm, Stephen Pritchard, who leads a challenging but honourably conducted double life as enraptured muso and implacable fault-finder general.

But many honourably refuse.

The SPD's candidate, Peer Steinbrück, kicks off the bargaining but then honourably bows out, leaving the field to others in his party.

He said he had "no reason to believe she did anything but act honourably during the time she was working for me".

Although these protesters declared themselves loyal supporters of the president's reform programme, they were swiftly disowned, prudently but not honourably, by Mr Khatami.Later, the ringleaders were harshly punished by the courts: several received heavy prison sentences and four were sentenced to death, though they have not, so far as is known, been executed.

He faced a court-martial for the loss of Speedy, but was honourably acquitted.

Hallowell was subsequently court martialed for the loss of his ship, but was honourably acquitted and returned to naval service.

A great and honourable Trust; but too seldom honourably executed; those who possess it having it often more at Heart to encrease their Power, than to make it useful; and to be terrible, rather than beneficent.

Militarism is not the soldiers' faith that war can be conducted honourably, but the polemicist's belief that war confers honour.

They take on Tottenham on Thursday having lost all five of their previous matches in the group but having performed honourably, memorably taking the lead at White Hart Lane in October before falling to a 3-1 defeat.