Sentence examples for are honor from inspiring English sources
noun
Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright and/or competent).
- The crowds gave the returning general much honor and praise.
Both are honor students, and Caldbeck has already accepted an offer in the highly competitive field of strategic planning.
No. My kids are in the fanciest prep schools on Long Island, and they are honor students.
In a recent speech at Queensborough Community College, Mr. Hayden said that CUNY's new master plan would cost "money the city and state are honor bound to provide".
On one hand, it seems entirely positive: stand up for who you are; honor your traditions; do not give in to changing fashion.
In traditional "honor code schools", there are honor pledges, student-organized honor systems, unproctored exams, and the requirement to turn in suspected cheating incidents.
(What are honor and glory? Why do we fight and live?) Because it is cast as Patroclus' autobiography and concentrates on the love affair, "The Song of Achilles" necessarily has to start much earlier and then catch up with Homer.
Under Afghan tribal tradition, when women appeal for peace, men are honor-bound to listen.
Historians like Schama and Goodman are honor-bound to avoid that kind of edifying distortion.
If they are accepted, they are honor-bound (there is no legal penalty) to withdraw their applications to other colleges.
If somebody on the other side expresses a thought that you disagree with, you are honor-bound to spend the next six hours of your life letting the world know about it.
That code and kinship explain much of what is happening in this conflict, such as why the Taliban are reluctant to evict their guest, Osama bin Laden, who has asked them for a sanctuary they are honor-bound to give, and why even those Pakistanis who are not religious militants have joined in heated protests.
