Sentence examples for honorable from inspiring English sources

So a person can be morally honorable while having low social status or socially honored while being morally disgraceful.

How would you label those who fight for healthcare, free education and honorable work that allows them to live in dignified conditions?

As Mr Blair observed in the Commons last week during an exchange with Mr Heathcoat-Amory: "it [associate membership] is a perfectly honorable position" and one that "represents a fundamental dividing line between the two parties".

To protect the huge economic stake of the Texas oilmen he represented, he masterminded the defeat of Leland Olds, the chairman of the Federal Power Commission, using tactics that could have been the model for Senator Joseph McCarthy's later efforts to tar honorable men as communist traitors.

The smartest, most sensitive most decent and honorable man.

Mrs. Maria Teresa Castillo is, as I have now said clearly on camera, an honorable person, widow of the excellent writer Miguel Otero Silva, former director of the newspaper now poorly run by his son.

Many lawyers blame American Lawyer, with its endless profit-rankings and lists, for helping turn an honorable profession into a grubby ordinary business.

But if a trip through the international terminal at Vladivostok airport is anything to go by, then Russia deserves honorable mention too.The terminal is a Soviet-era throwback.

And the less said about Malaysian television, the better.Protest in cyberspaceOnly the internet has provided a little relief from the dreary tide, though, sadly, few people have taken advantage of this, with the honorable exception of Malaysiakini, a web publication run by the courageous Steven Gan.

There are some honorable exceptions.

Rickman excelled in such varied film roles as a ghost in the supernatural romance Truly Madly Deeply (1990), the dastardly Sheriff of Nottingham in the swashbuckler Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), the honorable Colonel Brandon in the 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, and U.S. Pres.