Sentence examples for honorable acts from inspiring English sources

Honorable acts can have untoward consequences.

Nothing is said about why Snowden won't return to the U.S. to defend his so-called honorable acts in court like a man.

Praise the Schoolhouse for an honorable act of necessary disclosure.

In that same study, recalling an honorable act done recently led to less willingness to volunteer.

Some of the officers commit suicide, which Hirschbiegel dramatizes as a grimly honorable act.

Subjects who recalled an honorable act done long ago reported more willingness to do volunteer work than those who recalled a shameful one.

As Lieven rightly points out, constructively criticizing the country can be an honorable act, with a tradition as old as the United States itself.

Mr. Bloomberg seems outwardly unperturbed by the criticism, casting his decision to seek a third term as an honorable act of public service.

We know that Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce didn't land the motorcycle account; Don pulled the agency out of the running in an honorable act of corporate seppuku, after a faux-commercial caper that had Peggy Olson riding in circles around a sound stage.

It wasn't the most honorable act of Barber's career, but, again, in the context of how we define aberrant N.F.L. behavior, it is hard to get more angry than Manning appeared to be — or not — when he tweaked Barber for last season's long retirement melodrama in his unassuming, Andy of Mayberry way.

Fasting was an honorable act, with religious connotations.