Sentence examples for code of chivalry from inspiring English sources

The code of chivalry demanded that nobles fight where they were most likely to win fame.

Contador later issued an apology for breaching the race's unwritten code of chivalry.

For some lawyers, the law is not only a bunch of statutes but a code of chivalry.

"And one thing is to realize that you can't have both the code of chivalry and an equal paycheck.

The medieval code of chivalry, still very much alive in 16th-century Europe, was ripe with such sexual imagery.

Never mind that in Hollywood Westerns the cowboy almost always protects the weak and punishes the willful, thus upholding the European knight's code of chivalry.

Gillian Clarke conjures up the world of the Knights of the Round Table and their codes of chivalry.

It is as if the Greeks were appealing to medieval codes of chivalry or expecting Premier League footballers to respect 19th-century Corinthian values.

So too with the so-called Black Prince, the eldest son of Edward III, whose tactics, in the wake of his victories at Crécy and Poitiers, of burning and pillaging also offended traditional codes of chivalry.

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Anatoray's nobility and military officers generally believe that commoners do not understand their codes of chivalry.