Sentence examples for My honourable from inspiring English sources

When Ron Davies, a member who is also a British MP, referred to a colleague as "my honourable friend", the term used in the Westminster parliament, he was sternly rebuked by the Presiding Officer, Lord Elis-Thomas.

If you're talking about someone from the same party they can be referred to as "my honourable friend", while members of the privy council – usually ministers –are "the right honourable".

My honourable friend does not do his case much good at all when he tries to belittle that".

"Does my honourable friend therefore consider it desirable to have more women in the prison population, to achieve equality?" she asked.

In other parts of Essex, everyone had one vote, they were all counted once and many of my honourable friends won".

I am sure that all my Honourable Friends on the Lib Dem benches are keen to take this opportunity to strengthen their well known reputation for consistency.

"The chancellor is my right honourable friend," he added, by way of clarification.

"Can I invite my Right Honourable friend, the whole House and the world to come and celebrate the greatest living bard," he concluded.

I want to thank the All Party Group, led by my Right Honourable Friend for Sutton Coldfield [Andrew Mitchell], the Right Honourable Friend for North Norfolk [Norman Lamb] and Alastair Campbell, for their work.

John Wakeham brought the House down with his explanation: "My right honourable friend told the Leader of the Opposition that she would not be able to be here this afternoon because she has made herself available to President Gorbachev".

But Clooney told the Huffington Post: "I'm a great fan of the mayor, and I'm sure my right honourable friend had no real intention of comparing me to Hitler.