Sentence examples for honourable order from inspiring English sources
Moreover, he had repeatedly written, most significantly in 1523, that marriage is an honourable order of creation, and he regarded the Roman Catholic Church's insistence on clerical celibacy as the work of the Devil.
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, order of British knighthood established by King George I in 1725, conferred as a reward either for military service or for exemplary civilian merit.
Robert Mugabe had his honorary knighthood annulled in 2008, while Nicolae Ceausescu, the Romanian dictator, had his honorary grand cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath removed the day before his execution on Christmas day, 1989.
The Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was stripped of his honorary Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath the day before his execution on Christmas day 1989.
Had you popped out for a pint in Stamford in 1684, you may, if you were unlucky, have bumped into the Honourable Order of Little Bedlam, a drinking club of local aristos whose zany nicknames (Stag, Wild Horse and, erm, Porcupine) give you a flavour of why you would not want them in your local.
The 16-foot high bronze of the former Saint's striker and long-time manager, who died in 2003, was modelled by Ian Brennan, whose website informs us that he is "'Sculptor to the Most Noble Order of the Garter and Honourable Order of the Bath and now spends an average of four months of each year on a wide variety of unique highly detailed sculptures for the British Royal Household".
The president's decision not to stand was "without doubt the only honourable way out, in order to avoid an unprecedented defeat in the first round of the election or even in the left-wing primary", the newspaper said.
It's an honourable objective, and in order to explain why England's state schools aren't as good as yours was, you conjure up the image of teachers, unions, local authorities and a Labour government straining to deprive poor children of a good education.
We didn't play any Joy Division songs for 10 years after the start of New Order, which was a very honourable thing to do even if it meant shooting ourselves in the foot.
In Figure 1, we also see a binary ordering of individuals according to their "honourable" or "dishonourable" intent.
Honour systems only work with honourable people.
