Sentence examples for honorable alternative from inspiring English sources
He had been a miner for 4 years of the war, a compulsory, honorable alternative to uniform.
With upper-class boys growing up ready to marry a new pool of upper-class, unbound girls, there was now an honorable alternative, and the practice essentially disappeared within a generation.
"I offer you a simple, yet honorable alternative to a life on the run from Coalition Forces in order to avoid capture, imprisonment and loss of honor and dignity befitting a General Officer," he wrote.
He wrote that given the way things had looked to him at the time he got out of prison, he wasn't able to see any path that seemed like "an honorable alternative to armed revolt".
While the Bush campaign likes to suggest that service in the Guard was an entirely honorable alternative to Vietnam, in 1988 one of Mr. Bush's father's strongest backers (and future chief of staff), John H. Sununu, publicly criticized the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Lloyd Bentsen, for getting his son into the Guard.
On Aug. 28, General Petraeus sent General Hashem a letter offering him a "simple, yet honorable alternative to a life on the run from coalition forces in order to avoid capture, imprisonment and loss of honor and dignity befitting a general officer".
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In an op-ed earlier this month in The New York Times, Suprun said the president-elect "shows daily he is not qualified for office" and called on fellow electors to "do their job" and unify around an "honorable and qualified" alternative.
They received a Technology Award Honorable Mention in the category of "Alternative and/or Renewable Energy Use New Constructionon" from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE).
Some problems are simply not amenable to an honorable individualist solution, offering a choice only between disheartening alternatives.
"The owner acted with good intentions and certainly in an honorable fashion, but was left with no alternative but to proceed in this fashion," said Frank Gutman, the lawyer for Laurel Hill Associates.
