Sentence examples for honourable position from inspiring English sources

Women hold a relatively high and honourable position in Naga society.

Members of the class increasingly sought exemption from the formerly honourable position.

Basically, I found an honourable position for myself within the family business".

Charles Nicholl, whose acclaimed life of Leonardo was published in 2004, "was supposedly in this rather honourable position of being the last person to talk on the programme".

Being a floating voter is a perfectly honourable position to take in an election, because it implies a free-thinking open mind.

That is an honourable position, and one that has long history in the Labour party going back to deep roots in the dissenting tradition of Methodism.

"At the end of the day I want to know I did all I could," Mr Bright explains, "to protect these judges so they can serve in these honourable positions without feeling like they betrayed their faith".

The idea that the banks should be subject to "creative destruction" is an honourable intellectual position, but as a political proposition it's a non-starter.

With them for a time was the Italian political philosopher Marsilius of Padua, a Paris master who in his Defensor pacis (1324; "Defender of the Peace") outlined a secular state in which the church was a government department, the papacy and episcopate were human institutions, and the spiritual sanctions of religion were relegated to a position of honourable nonentity.

"It is an honour to be a senator; but the pursuit of that position must be honourable," Mr Feingold declared in a debate recently.

He needs to seriously reflect on that – and reflect on whether his actions and attempt to cover them up are consistent with his position as an honourable member of the House of Commons".