Sentence examples for point of honour from inspiring English sources

It's a point of honour given the old car's hopelessness there.

It is something of a point of honour never to ask permission from the authorities.

A gentleman would usually only draw blood and, in so doing, prove a point of honour.

The extremely complicated plots deal with the frustration of an idealized love by the conventional Spanish pundonor ("point of honour").

Duel, a combat between persons, armed with lethal weapons, which is held according to prearranged rules to settle a quarrel or a point of honour.

He was acutely conscious of how precious and fragile ki ho'alu was and made it a point of honour to teach and propagate the art.

Against his father's advice, he made it a point of personal honour to try to revive the family business.

But until Australia - who else? - showed everyone last time out in rugby that stadiums can be filled by sensible pricing and by making it a point of local honour to adopt a minnow and create a real sense of welcome, too many of rugby's World Cup games took place against that horrible backdrop.

For 90 minutes against Hearts as the Scottish Premier League season opens on Saturday, McCoist will find himself under more of a spotlight than at any point of his honour-laden time as a Rangers player.

Zaidah explained: "Police and media reports only portray the murderer's point of view in an honour killing, which makes the public sympathise.

Naturally, it's not a flattering portrait: Bush emerges as an angry loafer, oppressed by his father's achievements and his family's sense of honour, at one point drunk-driving his car on to his parents' lawn and challenging his father - "Mr Perfect, Mr War Hero, Mr Fucking God Almighty!" - to a fist-fight.