Sentence examples for honorable standing from inspiring English sources

Though he had family and friends in Germany, he wrote, "I owe everything to France, and I would not think myself worthy of the name of Frenchman, which I have obtained through my work and my honorable standing, if I had made myself guilty of cowardice toward my first country".

Later, Connaughton sent Kaufman a note: "There's nothing more honorable than standing up as the sole dissenting voice on a matter of principle".

The bogey-man has had an honorable, long standing, and awful place in the lives of small children and to replace him with Trump would be a disservice to children and chimeras everywhere.

Dick Durbin certainly deserves at least an Honorable Mention this week, for standing up and questioning Ted Cruz during his "fauxlibuster".

But there are a few last Mohicans and they preserve the honorable tradition of dolce far niente, sitting or standing around, talking; in a word, hanging out.

Together with Harry Reid -- who also deserves an Honorable Mention this week -- he has been strongly standing up to Republican obstructionism on the matter.

On a summer afternoon in 1871, George Jones, the publisher who helped found The New York Times 20 years earlier, was — to his unpleasant surprise — standing face to face with Richard B. Connolly, the honorable controller of the City of New York.

With the BBC's chairman, Chris Patten, standing gloomily beside him, Mr. Entwistle said that resigning was "the honorable thing to do".

Standing at the elevator I said, "You have lived a deeply honorable life".

Within the context of the jazz world, Djangophilia is an honorable pursuit; but to see it in action is a bit like watching a bunch of talented actors standing around in fedoras and doing Bogey for an hour.

Honorable mentions to whoever sent in the photos of chicks in an anorexia clinic and the naked dude standing next to a Christmas tree with a bow over his dick.