Sentence examples for noble notion from inspiring English sources

SEATTLE — This city has a noble notion of itself at the leading edge.

It is a noble notion, even as Gulati struggles with how to make it all work.

It is a noble notion, but challenging to sustain against astonishingly tough economics – a combination of sheer recession and loss of classified advertising to Google and more.

And, at this time, the notion of everyone being born free and equal – in dignity and rights – was a noble notion.

But it is also a question of how much of our soul, our proclaimed commitment to liberty and justice for all, to the noble notion that all men and women are created equal, we are willing to trade to the Mephistopheles of history to guarantee that we will be both powerful and secure.

Instead of parading to the cameras with the most angry statements, designed to get the most air time, Gabby Giffords sat before the cameras with calm dignity, spoke to her viewers with quiet eloquence, and let her good will and good faith champion a more noble notion than the vast wasteland of vindictive attacks.

"There's a kind of nostalgia for the way wars used to be," said Deane-Peter Baker, an ethics professor at the United States Naval Academy, referring to noble notions of knight-on-knight conflict.

Before long, he realized he had begun something that couldn't be stopped, a Christmas tradition with a regular cast of characters, a past as well as a present, one of those reminders that the more noble notions of Christmas can sometimes creep in amid the seasonal clutter of commerce, bustle and noise.

I must live in alignment with my very noble notions.

Cutting taxes and spending are noble notions, but without concrete details and plans behind them they are simply that: notions.

Halloween may mean Haribos to you; to me it means paying tribute to the noble dead notions of leftwingery gone by.