Sentence examples for from the honourable from inspiring English sources

At The Guardian, Terry Eagleton considers Derrida as a thinker from the "honourable lineage of anti-philosophers" who was nevertheless "no nihilist".

I have also recently received a letter from the Honourable Chief Mukungule of the Bisa people, one of the very groups I supposedly abused.

For all concerned, the experience was a crash course in economics, and practices ranged from the honourable (Art Rupe at Specialty Records in Los Angeles was tough but principled in his negotiations and royalty payments) to the disreputable.

"As somebody who was born and bred only 17 miles from Sheffield, I don't need any lectures from the honourable lady and, in particular, not from the party opposite given that the last Labour government closed offices in York and Liverpool and axed over 1,500 jobs in Preston and across the Fylde coast as part of a major rationalisation of DWP [ Departmentfor Work and Pensions] offices".

By midday all three brigades and the Camel Brigade, with Vickers and Lewis Gun sections and artillery support from the Honourable Artillery Company, were hotly engaged.

Charles, Zita, their children and their household left Eckartsau on 24 March escorted by a detachment of British soldiers from the Honourable Artillery Company under the command of Strutt.

All the more astonishing, as Nicholas Shakespeare's superb new novel illustrates so well, because the tensions between the two societies divided by the wall make for such a rich literary backdrop.At the age of 16, Peter Hithersay discovers that far from being the honourable English schoolboy he has always assumed himself to be, he is half-German and illegitimate.

There have been brilliant examples of this recently, from Accused to The Honourable Woman, from The Village to Happy Valley.

Most prized was the inclusion of a handwritten manuscript which sets out the background to the building of the Guildhall, revealing how a deputation from Londonderry Corporation visited The Honourable The Irish Society to ask for help in building a new town hall.

Shaw was also President of St Bartholomew's Hospital from 1806 to 1831 and President of the Honourable Artillery Company from 1829 to 1843.

The new show is part of a season of programmes unveiled by BBC2 on Tuesday, including a new drama from Hugo Blick, creator of The Honourable Woman, set in contemporary Africa, and Nigella Lawson's return to the channel for her first series in three years.