Sentence examples for a more honourable from inspiring English sources

Three decades ago, the Masai community gave president Daniel Arap Moi a parcel of land on the northern escarpment, a gesture that belonged to a more honourable era when "grabber" didn't feature in the local vernacular.

On occasion Hotchner gives us a more honourable, and honest, Hemingway than generally circulates, one who finally admits that for all his later high-minded insistence about the artistic purity of poverty, he probably enjoyed Pfeiffer's wealth.

Back home later and watching the TV trotting out the PM's reverse spin, he inquired: "Will David Cameron or someone high up get sacked for messing up?" Once upon a more honourable time but not now, I proferred lamely, suggesting he got on with his homework, but later he might care to Google search for Lord Carrington.

By issuing "preliminary" guidelines that prove to be wildly popular, goes this argument, the Bush administration can at last appear to be helping New Orleans back on its feet and if the IPET report is damning, it can simply blame the boffins.One federal official offers a more honourable interpretation: "We wanted to kick-start the redevelopment here".

The Yorks were recalled to London in February 1680, only to return again to Edinburgh that autumn; this time they went on a more honourable footing: James was created King's Commissioner to Scotland.

I began my completion playthrough – actually my second, as I never finished the first (50 hours clocked, no conclusion) – as a heartless bastard, screwing peasants over for as much coin as I could to rid their villages of beastly infestations; but it didn't take long for a more honourable streak to run through my game.

The people I'm dealing with now seem a lot more honourable".

Margin Call, also set over some 36 hours or so, initially appears to be located in an altogether more honourable and affluent place, the Manhattan headquarters of a respected investment bank.

Equally, arguments that there was no alternative to Chamberlain's policy were quite false, and an effective Anglo-French alliance, as urged by Churchill, was a feasible, as well as more honourable, choice.

Strictly speaking, the land on which the Deportivo stands is still illegally occupied – but few spaces can have been appropriated for more honourable purposes: a privately-owned former rubbish dump, used by the gangs to host their ruckuses, now belongs to the community and provides hundreds of local people with services that would otherwise be unavailable; unthinkable, even.

She suggests that "it is more honourable to fight with a sword, somehow".