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.
However, there is, as the founder of the modern Olympics, Pierre de Coubertin, maintained, the honor of taking part.
Boy Scouts maintained an honor guard with an American flag in a heavy rainstorm in two-hour shifts at his Ottawa home and 32 Boy Scouts were chosen as honorary pallbearers.
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.
At the same time, he carried on a regular communication with Scott, offering strategic advice (which was gently turned aside) and assuring his superior that "next to maintaining the honor of my country, the first aim of my life is to justify the good opinion you have expressed concerning me".
