Now these cases were particularly excepted by the clause proposed by his honorable colleague; and therefore he presumed there was no good argument against it.
There will be honorable, even tortured, argument about how to spend any "peace dividend". Some people will urge reducing the deficit.
One: So are they all, all honorable men This argument holds that yes, his "tax problems" are serious, definitely worthy of condemnation but, hey, he disclosed everything voluntarily (which is a really hilarious word under the circumstances, isn't it?), he has sworn, just like Tim Geithner did, that it was all unintentional, and he has apologized handsomely, just like Tim Geithner did.
Baltzell's argument — that the honorable rivalry was undone by crass commercialism and the personalities it created — gathers its strength by de-emphasizing or overlooking evidence that would contradict it.
Starting from a definition of happiness, good, honorable and just, etc., these topoi instruct arguments to the effect that items of a certain type are part of happiness, are good, honorable, just, etc.
These are all honorable points of view -- though, in the argument of my book, often misguided.
And this may represent devout Muslims' best immediate hope to advance the argument that their faith represents an honorable way of life.
Judge Sullivan, though, disparaged one aspect of the defense's argument that Mr. Chiasson should receive a lenient sentence because he lived an otherwise honorable life beside the crimes for which he was convicted – an argument commonly made by insider trading defendants.
Virtually every time the Bush administration feels cornered, it falls back on the argument that the president and his officials are honorable men and women.
But the board also said it "is sympathetic to the arguments advanced by the veteran, especially in light of her honorable service".
