Sentence examples for ignoble means from inspiring English sources
While "eliminating racial and sexual prejudice" had "noble aspiration," such laws "necessarily utilize the ignoble means of coercive force".
But the basic assumption of universal opposition to terrorism is a rejection of the notion that even noble ends justify ignoble means and a consistent opposition to the proliferation, let alone use of nuclear weapons, must insist that they are inherently anti-civilian and therefore immoral.
While the aims of the administration could be considered noble, its means were clumsy or ignoble or both.
This meant, among other things, an ignoble battle among newbies to sponsor bills that would allow them to curry favour with interest groups who would finance their next campaign.
The Pentagon has a long and ignoble history of announcing that it is dispatching American forces abroad as "advisers," when they are really meant to be combatants.
A bull that stops suddenly upon entering the ring and, bewildered by his new environment (yet another enclosure), attempts to escape back through the still-open gate might mean a tame or cowardly bull (a manso) is on hand; manso bulls can make for an ignoble performance and pose a great danger to the matador, for the bull's movements are erratic and difficult for the bullfighter to gauge.
There is nothing ignoble about this.
An found his new assignment ignoble.
If he did it through foul means and fouler – he fouled Maradona alone a record 23 times, despite being booked early on – then it's also the definitive demonstration of the ignoble art of man-to-man marking.
But was the end, perhaps, more ignoble?
