Sentence examples for honourable work from inspiring English sources

It is a good, honourable work that shows that Motion has a gift for drama.

Unlike the idealistic knight-errant, however, the picaro is a cynical and amoral rascal who, if given half a chance, would rather live by his wits than by honourable work.

Honourable mentions: working out, working (being gainfully employed), workin' it (on the dance floor).

Honour systems only work with honourable people.

"I believe they are honourable and the work they do is honourable.

Very honourable mention: The work done by Francesco Guidolin at Udinese has been truly remarkable, and especially his handling of Sánchez.

"What I would like to do today [Friday] is to make a full and open offer to the honourable member to work with officials in the Ministry of Justice and the Home Office and [the gay rights group] Stonewall to give real effect to this pardon for the dead and the living as fairly and quickly as possible".

Ben Reuven was an honourable man who worked for the Steins because he believed in the apparent purity of their motives.

Why is the honourable lady so worked up about this issue – perhaps it is the time of the month?

But the idea that the voice of young people should be promoted in business life has been sidelined – with the honourable exception, perhaps, of work pioneered in the co-operative sector.

Might it not be as well, it is being asked, to recognise that the Colonial Office's present and most honourable function is to work itself out of a job; and to transfer responsibility for the emergent, and even pre-emergent, Commonwealth countries to the Commonwealth Relations Office?The timetable, after all, is getting filled in.