Unyielding forests, soggy fields, poor harvests and epidemics created a situation in which landowning gentlemen, desperate to maintain honor, could slip into debt, despair, sin, ruin.
Respecting the elders' decisions, no matter how unjust or harsh, is required to maintain honor.
He realizes that set up for failure, resigning is the only way to maintain honor with Honda and beats out CGC by steering them in the wrong direction, making them think they're making a pitch.
I've taken four AP classes, maintained honor roll and did two internships-one at the DCPS (District of Columbia Public Schools) and another at the World Bank.
The values I learned were that we fight ferociously but maintain our honor.
When the Confederacy opened fire on Fort Sumter in April 1861, Abraham Lincoln responded within hours, ordering a naval blockade of Southern ports and calling for 75,000 volunteers to "maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union".
Meanwhile, thousands of fans -- including President Andres Pastrana -- flooded the RCN network, the maker of the soap opera, with e-mails and faxes calling for Betty to maintain her honor.
He discovered that a political organization run by a Mr. Netanyahu's former chief of staff, which has ties to Israeli settlers, had called on its 60,000 Facebook followers to "maintain the honor of Israel" by visiting the Facebook pages of the American and French embassies and posting comments.
I hadn't been expecting too much of the first and least known of the cycle of history-plays on which the dramatist is still engaged; but its portrait of a 1970's Pittsburgh cab company, and the African-Americans who drive the cars and struggle to maintain their honor and humor, riveted me when I saw it 18 months ago.
Pious Aeneas, a man who flees the burning city of Troy carrying his aged father and leading his young son, loses his sensitivity in the course of founding Rome and becomes "savage Aeneas," killing brutally and senselessly to maintain his honor.
Now looking back on the last two years and my fight to maintain my honor and personal dignity, this fight was worth it.
