Sentence examples for honour lost from inspiring English sources

Police officers round the world honour lost comrades.

Amplifying the violence of the Italian spaghetti western to repellant excess as a parallel to the violence of the Vietnam War's media coverage; Peckinpah heralds the true death of the gunslinger, as Pike Bishop William Holdenn) and his ageing gang of outlaws live to see their self-proscribed code of honour lost to the advances of the 20th century.

Its fishermen sailed from the Capes of Virginia to Greenland and Iceland; the Fisherman's Memorial, a bronze statue facing the harbour, honours those lost at sea (said to total more than 10,000).

In Oklahoma the Tea Party has bowed to the solemnity of the date, so that two events will occur on different days: one on 15 April, howling abuse at the government, and another on 19 April solemnly honouring the lost and the survivors.

Craig Harrison, who served with the Royal Tank Regiment, said: "If we didn't have a plaque we would have nothing at this memorial which honours those lost at the Korean War.

Thus Davis seems most likely to secure the honour of losing the next election.

Writing a few years after the American Civil War, Whitman suggested that some notion of heroism and honour had been lost by Americans.

Lord Jim (1900), originally conceived as a short story, grew to a full-length novel as Conrad found himself exploring in ever greater depth the perplexing, ambiguous problem of lost honour and guilt, expiation and heroism.

Yet politicians are more likely to lament a woman's lost "honour", or even blame the victim.In a conservative society, where Bollywood long banned on-screen kisses, talk of sex remains difficult.

Its climactic passages of abasement and lost honour show that in Lawrence's estimation even the Arabs' victorious entry into Damascus, in September 1917, was spoiled by the impending British betrayal.

Sting told the crowd in French: "We've got two important things to do tonight … First, to remember and honour those who lost their lives in the attacks a year ago.