Sentence examples for honourable course from inspiring English sources

He should follow the honourable course taken by Iain Duncan Smith and resign," he said.

I therefore believe the only honourable thing and the only honourable course of action is for me to resign".

In that context, staying on is the more honourable course of action with regard to the people of Iraq.

Early in 2007 he took what in my view was the only honourable course open to him.

Early in 2007, Buckland took what, in my view, was the only honourable course open to him, and resigned.

Recent political and corporate history is replete with cases in which death appeared the most honourable course of action.

There are honourable exceptions, of course, but going against the media/political cronyism requires not only courage but a publisher.

Not in any honourable sense, of course, but more in that the exact figure is too vast to gauge and the associated horrors are too depressing to consider.

There are, of course, honourable individual exceptions; but the overall record suggests that almost anything a financial analyst says should be taken with a large pinch of salt.Several studies have found that, a year ahead, analysts' profits forecasts will typically be 5-8% too high.

Add to that the habitual complaint that European VCs (with some honourable exceptions of course) tend to be more risk averse to startups with unproven business models and you have a perfect storm of factors which push startups away from the consumer space in Europe.

This was of course the honourable minister's reasoning last month for reducing the number of refugees Australia would resettle from Indonesia and banning those who registered with UNHCR in Indonesia after 1 July 2014 from ever getting to Australia.