Sentence examples for honorable line from inspiring English sources

And our less tangible industries — finance and investment banking, say — have disgraced themselves in our eyes, and so we turn to a purportedly more honorable line of work".

Republican theorists like to put themselves in the honorable line of the British conservative Edmund Burke.

"I want to be engaged in an honorable line of work," Bayh told Ezra Klein in October 2010.

If Bayh were truly looking for an "honorable line of work," working for a company that bought up the retirement accounts of the elderly, shifted them to risky investments and hit them with big fees is a strange way to go about it. .

Careers in manufacturing and skill-based trade labor, the type of which you often don't learn in school, are an honorable and honest line of work that's often marginalized.

Hopefully they see the light over time regarding their worst tendencies, and the Mormon church no doubt has honorable people lining its pews.

"We openly acknowledge that in nearly 200 years of church history — along with an uninterrupted line of inspired, honorable and divine events — there have been some things said and done that could cause people to question," Mr. Uchtdorf said, speaking to 20,000 Mormons gathered for the 183rd semiannual general conference in Salt Lake City, and millions more watching telecasts and over the Internet.

The play states its intentions with honorable precision in its very first line.

Kerry seemed to be the latest in a long line of decent, serious, honorable Democratic presidential candidates cut to ribbons by the Republican attack machine and bested by G.O.P. contenders whom voters would much rather have a beer with.

You knew Ned was going to lay it on the line to do the honorable thing.

Metrolink disclosed its findings so quickly, she said, because officials of the rail line, "want to remain on honorable grounds with the community".