Sentence examples for honor diminished from inspiring English sources

For two decades, all of this has clung to us: unresolved feelings of guilt and grief; rage at authority and loss of personal honor; diminished American self-respect; and suspicion of the neighbor whose experience of the war years was different.

It is honored, not diminished, by the decision today that anyone who loves, and pledges to commit, should be recognized and respected.

I see American honor stained, American power diminished, and American money wasted.

Instead of celebrating this honor, we're diminishing it.

Yet, honoring civil servants need not diminish the honor accorded to our military.

The citation reads: After the occupation of Veracruz, many military personnel received the Medal of Honor, an unusually high number that diminished somewhat the prestige of the award.

He was a junior high school student at the time, but politicians who know him say the years since have not diminished his sense that Japan needs to reclaim its honor.

The world wars and their technologies diminished individual heroism and nations' claims that war protects national honor and ideals.

The defendants, she wrote, "should revel in the success" of their accommodation to a student's disability "and the academic star it has produced," instead of seeking "to diminish the honor that she has rightly earned".

President Bush received a standing ovation Friday from nearly 500 graduates of Concordia University here when he told them in a highly religious commencement speech that the "failures of character" of American soldiers who abused captives at Abu Ghraib prison "cannot diminish the honor and achievement" of more than 200,000 troops who have served in Iraq.

That outrages Geller, who says that an en masse tenureship diminishes the honor.