At the UN last July, the prime minister showed integrity and leadership when he said: "We did not make the commitment to the millennium development goals only for us to be remembered as the generation that betrayed promises rather than honoured them and undermined trust that promises can ever be kept".
He is humble enough to feel honoured rather than insulted to be called a poor man's Arsène Wenger and would be entitled to point out that in terms of available resources he has usually been poor indeed.
So much so, discerning visitors to Japan now decry the increasingly popular practice of tacking on little sushi counters to otherwise traditional restaurants, where you can order raw fish as ceviche or carpaccio, rather than time-honoured sashimi.
Sometimes it was the other way round.Afterwards there was a slow, late and rather formal dinner for the honoured British guests.
That creates incentives for people in thriving areas to help embattled colleagues rather than, in the time-honoured Wall Street way, to join forces against them.
Lee's baritone vocals are supple rather than wild, delivering time-honoured tales of love, estrangement and betrayal with engaging intimacy.
Steer roping, though a rather limited event today, was a time-honoured practice among old-time cowboys.
They even use the time-honoured, saucer-and-wrinkle method, rather than high technology or even a thermometer, to judge whether a product is ready for the jar.
A rebellious teacher, she quarrelled with the American missionaries in Beirut for their discrimination against "native" teachers who were addressed as Mualimie (teacher) rather than Miss So-and-so, as the more honoured expatriates were and then went on to co-found the first college in Egypt to offer women higher education.
Mr. Mansour's already strained relations with his fan base deteriorated further when he as a newly elected member of parliament he last month changed the words of the official oath to swearing to respect "articles of the constitution" rather than the constitution itself because its pre-amble honoured the 2011 popular revolt.
