While "eliminating racial and sexual prejudice" had "noble aspiration," such laws "necessarily utilize the ignoble means of coercive force".
This is not entirely ignoble, by the way.
Laughing at poor people has a long and ignoble heritage dating all the way back to the beginning of TV itself.
Human beings have no problem choosing second-best solutions to dilemmas in other areas of their lives, so there is nothing inherently ignoble about casting a vote in this way too.
Of what happens when the noble occupation of writing a novel, gives way to the grubby and ignoble s**t fight that is pitching and marketing one.
While the aims of the administration could be considered noble, its means were clumsy or ignoble or both.
I hadn't brought my glasses or even the little plastic storage case for the contacts, so I beat an ignoble retreat to my car and blinked and cried my way home.
"(J ust as Pantaloon can never be anything but a ridiculous cuckold, Harlequin an astute servant and the Doctor a stupid pedant, in the same way Thauvin will never be anything but an ignoble traitor, Reinieres the moving image of passivity, Mazaud (short and arrogant like a cock) that of grotesque conceit…".
It is a road that half the history of England seems to have taken, on its way to a crowning or to a public and ignoble death, to murder or be murdered, to raise revolt, to seek a fortune, or to be buried.
People, he says, "have the right not to suffer disadvantage in the distribution of social goods and opportunities, including disadvantages in the liberties permitted to them by the criminal law, just on the ground that their officials or fellow-citizens think that their opinions about the right way for them to lead their own lives are ignoble or wrong".
