Sentence examples for honour against from inspiring English sources

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"He'd been defending my honour against a boy who told him that his father thought I was a bum," he writes in his memoir.

An official praised the youth of the capital for "defending their honour" against the rioters' acts of sabotage.The huge protest in Algiers had drawn hundreds of thousands of Kabyles to the capital.

Cooper, Ray Milland, and Robert Preston starred as brothers who stake their honour against the cruelty of their Foreign Legion commander (Brian Donlevy, in a performance that earned him an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor).

By the end of the play, he is revealed as both man and standard of honour against which others measure themselves: it is a fine tribute to his bravery.

Stuart Lancaster's young side lost with honour against Wales a fortnight ago but they will want to win at any cost and will ignore the talk of boring rugby that has swirled around during the week.

Yet for most Arabs, especially Islamists - and, indeed, despite their resentment, many Lebanese too - it was shameful, a stab in the back of the only people who, however irresponsibly, are seen to be defending Arab honour against the historic Zionist foe, and, for the first time, giving as good as they get.

It would be easy for me to get in a back room with this man's lawyer and make this go away, but there are some moments in life when you have to stand up and defend your honour against the evil in this world.

They scapegoat and punish a marginalised figure – a woman, or an immigrant – who has little to no power to defend themselves; a figure who is sacrificed to maintain a society's borders, like a family does its honour, against foreigners who threaten to corrupt its own narrated sense of purity.

Directed by Elizabeth Banks, the story sees the Bellas travel to the world championships to defend their honour against German aca-champions Das Sound Machine.

Now the 47-year-old multiple-weight world champion, who wants to break his own record and become boxing's oldest world champion, hopes to regain some honour against either Cleverly, WBA title-holder Beibut Shumenov or IBF champion Tavoris Cloud.

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Its stars, Richard Griffiths and Frances de la Tour, took acting honours against competition which included Ralph Fiennes and Zoe Wanamaker.

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