Sentence examples for honourable efforts from inspiring English sources

Even at their best, these new albums – such as recent honourable efforts by the Pixies and My Bloody Valentine – only serve to highlight how a once innovative sound has been successfully co-opted by lesser talents while the band has been away.

No more honourable cause than #freedom.

In the light of these results, Bohr informed Darwin, "there is nothing else to do than to give our revolutionary efforts as honourable a funeral as possible".

The first is, that if we want our farmland birds back, it's only by farmers restoring the natural ecosystem that this can happen – there isn't any other way – and for many if not most farmers, despite very honourable exceptions, this is too much effort and cost, even with the government grants.

– Mr President, I should like to congratulate my eminent honourable friend Helmuth Markov on the effort he made in drafting this report.

But two final efforts deserve a more than honourable mention.

The value of that effort is due to the honourable and straightforward conduct of Sir Edward Grey, which did so much to localise the Balkan wars and to prevent the mobilisation in Austria and Russia from terminating in an explosion.

Another rule of inemuri governs posture – because what is honourable, is to fall asleep despite your best efforts, not on purpose.

Mr President, I too should like to echo the thanks expressed by various honourable Members to Mrs Roth-Behrendt for the efforts she has made, even though I do not share her conclusions at all.

Instead, I simply pointed out that Gordon Brown spends so much time and effort pretending to be the Right Honourable Thomas Gradgrind, that he can hardly complain when people believe him.

Honour systems only work with honourable people.