Thank you Mr Chairman and the Honourable Director-General for giving me the floor.
Villagers bow and scrape, addressing them as honourable minister or director even though they are neither.
Mr Director-General, Honourable Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, With all the modesty of a person coming from a small and distant country called Chile, part of the so-called developing world, I felt it was my duty, on this solemn occasion and in response to the generous invitation of Director-General Jacques Diouf, to expound my thoughts to you in all frankness.
Even so, the principle of going water neutral – or even 'net positive', as in the case of Coca Cola – marks an "honourable goal", according to Piers Clark, commercial director at UK utility Thames Water.
From 1999 to 2004, Farah served as the Director of Communications for The Honourable Anne McLellan in her role as Minister of Justice, Minister of Health and Deputy Prime Minister of Canada.
Honour systems only work with honourable people.
He spoke in a clear but somehow faintly disconnected fashion, as if reading the lines of a play: "… I have decided that the honourable thing to do is to step down from the post of director general".
It happened in Gaza, courtesy of writer-director-producer Hugo Blick's mesmerising eight-part thriller for BBC2, The Honourable Woman.
Even the minority that declared his earlier films to be honourable failures, or exercises in intellectual tedium, had to agree that, of all directors, he remained the most recklessly volatile and his development the most fascinatingly unpredictable.
King also released an email he sent to Llambias and the finance director Leach on Tuesday morning in which he tells the pair to do the honourable thing and quit before the shareholders summit.
Mr. Director-General for External Resources of the Ministry of International Cooperation, – distinguished representatives of the Government of National Unity, UNICEF colleagues, honourable friends from Sudanese civil society, ladies and gentlemen.
