If many of the selections did not follow the main track of Graham's career, they were nevertheless performed honorably.
Besides bringing the assailants to justice, the Police Department needs to determine as swiftly as possible which officers performed honorably and which did not.
The 1st Regiment, inexperienced and untested in battle and with less training than most white units, had performed honorably under desperate circumstances.
One by one, their right hands raised, the judges pledged to perform their duties "honorably, faithfully, impartially and conscientiously".
"Like all New Yorkers, the governor takes the issue of police wrongdoing very seriously, but he also believes that the overwhelming majority of police officers perform their duties honorably and conscientiously," Ms. Heller said.
Wolf, now chief federal judge in Massachusetts and formerly a noted crime-fighter in the state before his appointment to the bench by President Reagan, wrote the attorney general this April following Holder's invitation for chief judges to keep him informed if federal attorneys fail to perform their duties honorably and ably.
"There have been fewer prosecutions in Iraq than one might expect". "But we should not forget that so many of our soldiers and Marines are performing not only honorably, but heroically, in very difficult circumstances," he added.
Indeed, many of you are not only blameless in the current scandal -- you have acted honorably in the incredibly difficult balancing act you are called upon to perform.
If you act honorably, which means writing well, performing like it's the only thing that matters on a nightly basis, and giving the best of yourself to pull out the best in your audience, you've done your job.
