Sentence examples for code of honour was from inspiring English sources
The prevailing code of honour was considered a sufficient justification for Duque de Estrada's violence, but the law looked upon the act as an assassination, and he had to flee.
For them the brutal but respected Pashtunwali code of honour is more important than religion.
A code of honour is broadly adhered to: no criminal damage, no sueing anyone if anything bad happens to you.
For the first and last time Effi curses them all, but in the end she is too much a part of the system herself: his code of honour is also hers, and it was she who broke the rules.
The hero's code of honour is shown surviving all manner of horrors: the adultery of his wife, the death of his young son etc, to the point that he volunteers to fake an affair so that divorce can be blamed on his adultery.
In Germany duels of honour were authorized by the military code up to World War I and were legalized again (1936) under the Nazis.
The guests of honour were politicians.
Rock, Paper, Shotgun: In many ways you have to argue that Medal Of Honour is competent.
The inflexible Prussian code of male honour is blamed for ruining a number of lives.
He's just a great, funny New Jersey guy with a medieval code of honour, who is very loyal.
I feel a little strange saying all this, as though I'm transgressing some unwritten national code of honour, because Ted is an Irish cultural institution at this stage, up there with U2 and Roy Keane in a modern-day Holy Trinity.
