Sentence examples for be 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.
"There should be honor among start-ups," Mr. Muller said, still rankled.
Maybe in the case of popes, sitting on the throne of St. Peter should be honor enough.
"This year's topic seems to be honor crimes, and the tendency to blame them on a particular religion, namely Islam.
The envoy, Yakin Erturk, concluded that while some suicides were authentic, others appeared to be "honor killings disguised as a suicide or an accident".
For all of their faults and ideological rigidity, the Republican Party are not slaveholders claiming to be honor bound to take up arms against the government.
Western diplomats here confirmed that the May 12 deadline was a prominent feature of the negotiations along with a Libyan expectation that Washington would be honor bound to reward Colonel Qaddafi not only for his declaration, but also for the steps he is taking to allow American, British and United Nations inspectors to effectively assume authority over his secret weapons programs.
"If he says not to pursue it," said Mark J. Biros, a defense lawyer at the firm Proskauer Rose in Washington, "you would be honor-bound not to pursue it".
Mr. Corzine's venture into fiscal prudence has forced Rutgers to put the stadium upgrade on hold, to the chagrin of some who argue that the state gave its word and so should be honor-bound to deliver.
If Ochs were to continue that policy, he would be honor-bound to publish letters in support of Hitler, however anti-Semitic — and that he could not bear.... Nonetheless, as the Holocaust scholar Deborah E. Lipstadt demonstrated in "Beyond Belief," her 1986 book about press coverage of the Final Solution, the Times frequently buried important news stories instead of putting them on page 1.
