Sentence examples for honourable motives from inspiring English sources

These are surely honourable motives.

It is not always corrupt or self-serving or distorting, and is often done with honourable motives.

By adding the word "honour" to killing, we use the language of those who justify this odious crime on the basis of "honourable" motives.

There were honourable motives for declaring war on Hitler, as there are for unseating Saddam, but that is not what, a year ago, we were offered.

The Iraqi penal code prescribes leniency for those who commit such crimes for "honourable motives", enabling some of the men involved to get off with no more than a fine.

While article 114 of the Code makes it a criminal offence to kill someone even 'upon the latter's earnest and urgent request', article 115 criminalizes those who assist a suicide unless they act from honourable motives.

We know how honourable were the motives of Chancellor Kohl and President Mitterrand in pushing for monetary union after the reunification of Germany in 1990.

She told Judge Jonathan Teale: "Their honourable and decent motives perhaps might be contrasted with what we now know about the long-term deployment of undercover police officers, one of whom acted on the 'extreme boundary of legality', if not decency, if the reports of agitation and so on across Europe are to be believed.

The other conspirators have various motives, less honourable and more straightforwardly political than Brutus's.

Some motives are honourable – for example the desire to help people to live healthier lives; while others are more base – fame, power, money.

Flintoff, however, rejects these claims and insists his motives are honourable.