Religious individuals consider this a turn toward God, while secular individuals may think of it as a turn toward their "highest good". In all cases, they work diligently toward self-awareness and they maintain a steadfast focus on honorable goals and ethical principles – even as stressful uncertainties, risks, threats, and instability swirl about them.
The jury result instead reflects exactly the conflict, and ambivalence, we have between honorable legal principles that for good reason structurally bias criminal trials against conviction, and our cherished ideal that sexual-assault victims should be believed and vindicated.
He's an honorable and principled man, even if many of his principles aren't ones I agree with.
There, eight major organizations signed an agreement intended to define the modern supremacist movement according to three unifying principles: honorable behavior among all signatories, a high tone in public presentations and zero tolerance for violence.
But the spectacle was somehow sadder for its subtlety, which underscored the bind that even the most cautious and conscientious administration official is in, the impossibility of finding some honorable balance of principle and obeisance, prudence and deference.
"She was decent and honorable and practiced her principles.
They cry out for us to validate the foundational bedrock principle that honorable diversity is America's deepest strength.
Then go home and take a bath and feel good about sticking to your principles and being the honorable person you really are, deep inside".
Party loyalty can, it's true, be honorable if it is about the defense of principles, and Moore's backers say they are sticking with him to oppose abortion and multiply conservative judges.
Two principles should guide your negotiations: Be honorable and be strategic.
