Sentence examples for Honorable intentions from inspiring English sources

Honorable Intentions To the Sports Editor: Re "Redskins' Name Change Remains Activist's Unfinished Business," Oct. 10: The current protest by certain groups maintaining that the Washington Redskins' nickname disparages American Indians overlooks one important factor: their name and various others connected to sports teams are meant to honor and not disparage American Indians.

Competence counts, too: Honorable intentions don't matter if a person's capabilities aren't up to the task.

Do his honorable intentions and youthful dreams count for anything at all?

It is this failure that betrays the honorable intentions of "The Remains of Company D".

The good guys are truly good, or, at least, they have honorable intentions and suffer remorse when they fall short.

In the end Mr. Sanford's willingness to produce the play on his main stage persuades me of his honorable intentions.

Buried amid the sodden rhetoric and the jungle muck is an honorable intention.

That said, knowing that many doctors have an honorable intention to minimize a patient's anxiety, I must be assertive and solicit information from my doctor.

And also of boredom, frustration and fatigue, as an honorable intention -- to explore the moral conundrums of humanitarian military intervention -- bogs down in dramatic and ideological incoherence.

This is a perfectly honorable intention, but the problem is that, in setting out to overturn historical stereotypes of Jewish passivity, Mr. Zwick (who co-wrote the screenplay with Clayton Frohman) ends up affirming them.

Also the simple and honorable intention to preserve a particular kind of story, one that's much different from even a long newspaper feature, with scenes and characters and a narrative arc.