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Sentence Examples So why don't they do the honourable thing and resign their posts and let the citizens run the city according to the wishes of the citizens? The respectable part of the Spanish nation, and more especially the honourable and toilworn peasantry, loathed and execrated both factions. It is absolutely out of order to suggest that an honourable member of this House is committing treason. I once believed he was capable of an honourable peace with his enemy, but no more. As my honourable friend has said, that is why the title of this bill needs to be changed. I turn to my honourable friend behind me, whom I was quite rude to, and I am not normally rude. Although I completely disagree with my honourable friend, the question was about whether something is illegal. The enlightened throughout the world will concur in the opinion that this proud and most honourable badge was most unfitly bestowed. To assume perversity unworthily discredits an integral and honourable part of the justice system. Even he could be persuaded that a man's conduct was so markedly honourable as to justify elevation to the nobility. He really must be the worst spin bowler in the world, and that is a very honourable position to have, especially when Giles is around. I am sorry to interrupt the honourable member, but interjections are getting a bit out of hand. The honourable member is obviously fairly thin-skinned, and I suppose one would be entitled to say if the cap fits, wear it. One of the greatest and most honourable traditions of cruising is being invited to dine at the Captain's table. In Parliamentary tradition, I hereby refer the honourable gentleman to the answer the free market gave some moments ago. Fifteen years on, and the honourable member is a chancellor presiding over dwindling dole queues and a booming economy. I'd also like to note how much I'm enjoying watching two intelligent, hardworking, and largely honourable people do charmless politics. Although the smart winner was far too good that day, Lisdante ran an honourable race to lead home the remainder. As Western leaders become mired in squalid chaos, there is a noticeable lack of any honourable values shining through. He wants to make a career at the highest level and that's an honourable aspiration. Show More Sentences It is hardly the way to treat the most distinguished and longserving members of a noble and honourable profession. It would be honourable for the Forum to come out in the open and declare that they are either a political party or are backing one. There is nothing wrong with a government being kicked out of office for doing the right and honourable thing. Her husband followed later after completing a long and honourable career in the airline business. The leader of the trade union said he believed Mr Smith had done the honourable thing by resigning. The integrity of the author is, of course, a prerequisite for publication in any honourable journal. They told the 66-year-old that the honourable course of action would be to resign. These are honourable motives for getting involved in the political process. He did not seem to trust this man and was quite sure that his intentions were not honourable. The vicarious emotions that the accounts of the trial provoked range from the honourable, through the ignoble to the thoroughly perverse. It fittingly perpetuates his memory as one who lived an unassuming honourable life and bequeathed the whole of his residuary estate to charity. The clever rogues who had employed him and personated the members of the honourable firm were never traced. Would the right honourable Prime Minister please address the question briefly. Apart from a few honourable exceptions, the architects never seem to have examined their actions critically. The wicked world pursue their evil cause boldly, but alas! the people of God shame their honourable cause and profession by their cowardice. The honourable member for Grayndler was pulled up for using the term bigot. A Geordie bus driver, captivated by my southern charm, had designs on me that weren't entirely honourable. The racing of horses therefore has a long and mostly honourable tradition, but the sport has always had its detractors. The egg roll stuffed with shredded cabbage, celery, carrot, onion, glass noodles and sprouts deserves an honourable mention. The story of our club is a long and honourable one, but not without our growing pains. Show More Sentences This is not to say that there are not some disinterested and honourable people. That is very disobliging of the honourable Gentleman, who was being kind to me earlier. But the fact is, these plans do equate gay liaisons with the honourable estate of matrimony. It is to his eternal credit that he had the decency to do as he did, which sums up the kind of honourable official the county manager is. With one honourable exception, every pedagogue who taught or tutored me for long enough to influence my views was steeped in bellicism. The pride of nobility would not have admitted unnoble freeholders to have shared in the most honourable of its privileges. It might suit his book to allege that, but that is not the position of my honourable friend. The right honourable gentleman opposite is a very naughty man, and he will laugh on the other side of his face when my ship comes in. Bless them, O Lord, and wheresoever they walk, grant them success in this, their honourable quest. The ubiquitous albondigas, the ever-present boquerones, the dreary old patates bravas, but Seville is an honourable exception to a sad trend. The film has been craftily re-edited and re-marketed into a love story that shows the Japanese as honourable soldiers. But, in this Alice-in-Wonderland world, that was entirely consistent and honourable. Of course, as the honourable member will know, alienability is a defining characteristic of a fee simple title. I do not believe that the matter should rest there, because there is an honourable course of action. I urge restraint on honourable members so they respect the contribution of another member. It was the Conservative Party's honourable decision to put this matter to the arbitrament of the British people by way of referendum. It is considered honourable to earn one's daily bread through honest work and not by begging or dishonest means. The most honourable manner of signifying their assent, is to express their applause by the sound of their arms. With that said, check out the list, and be sure to take a look at our honourable mentions too. Yes, he had to go and in going he did the last honourable thing open to him. Show More Sentences However they might differ on other issues, all the reformers vigorously defended the honourable estate of matrimony. We're hoping that the employers see sense and will behave like honourable people and give us our long-overdue pay rise. The personal explanation given today will not distance the honourable member from that. Jason White is not the only Scot to have received an honourable mention in dispatches from abroad. However, Scripture also affirms to singles, couples and the parents of future single adults that being single can be just as honourable, and frequently preferable. I know that my honourable friend from the United Future party does not need my assistance on this issue, but I am having difficulty in hearing the member's contribution. Mr. Speaker, the Right Honourable Governor General desires the immediate attendance of this honourable House in the chamber of the honourable the Senate. It would mean that women would have a central part in the culture, as muses and inspirers certainly, but also as honourable beings in their own right. It is also a remarkably assured debut, and a reminder that the Bush Theatre's honourable legacy of spotting plays with real zing and commercial potential remains intact. It seems incongruous that one so young, so fit and so honourable should be taken from the bosom of his family so suddenly, but then, all things in this life are flawed. My honourable friend in another place, Danny Alexander, was right to point out two other aspects of the Bill that post-legislative scrutiny would highlight. We know he was an honourable man because he came forward to his line manager at the Ministry and admitted that he was probably the primary source the story. As in every culture, where all other Indians in the story are proud and honourable, Emiliano happens to be a horror of almost fantastical proportions. His line was that there are people living like parasites in Grub Street while other clean-limbed, honourable fellows are trying to improve the world. Some even felt that in such a situation, the only honourable course would be for the government to call an election to re-establish a mandate for a change in course. I often wonder, if the honourable gentleman was Speaker, whether he would then be able to confront some of the difficulties of his own questions and requests. Historically, public service was the honourable vocation of the nobility and gentry, whose younger sons went into the army, the Church or the law. He is an honourable person respected and held in esteem by his colleagues. In actual fact, the Hutchinsons were the side of the family that invented the thumbscrew, while we ourselves are a particularly gallant and honourable lot. I do not credit that honourable member with having the gift of prophecy. Show More Sentences Born of lawful matrimony and of honourable parents, above others expert in the rule and religion of the monastery, and elected the said Dame Jonet as their prioress and pastress of their souls. He's as decent and honourable as his cauliflower ears are large. The sextet received honourable mention, the quintet was ignored. He saw Anglicans, with honourable exceptions, as lazy pluralists. The coquette Lady Betty Modish is led to accept the suit of the honourable Lord Morelove by a plot to excite her jealousy, followed by reproaches from Sir Charles. Without diminishing their singularity or their achievement, I would still like to see them as each carrying forward an old and honourable tradition. So my humble request to the honourable minister is to pass the order to repair the road at this particular crossing as early as possible and prevent the mishappening and death of the people. By resigning she did the honourable thing and deserves credit for that. And so he has done the honourable thing and admitted US election defeat. With a small number of honourable exceptions like Unison, the outcome was stitched up without giving grassroots union members a vote. Michael Wolf won an honourable mention in Daily Life in the 2011 World Press Photo competition for some of his work using Google Street View. The conservatives had come into power just after his marriage, and he had held honourable though not supereminent office. It has been often remarked, that men, honest, honourable, and verlioquent in everything else, will cheat and lie in horse-trading. He might be assimilated to a madman, but the honourable Gentleman himself was an abhorrer, and an abhorrer could not reason. He said that opposition leader Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan made fun of the house by calling honourable members drumbeater. Agent Ressler gives Bobby the seppuku knife and tell him to do the honourable thing. Thou appealest to Posterity, thou? My right honourable friend, what will Posterity do for thee! If the honourable gentleman differs with me on that subject, I differ as heartily with him, and shall always rejoice to differ. James, view Churchill's motives as honourable and disinterested, in that he felt deeply for the King. In 1965 Greene again entered a similar New Statesman competition pseudonymously, and won an honourable mention. Show More Sentences Concession is an honourable act and does not carry the stigma associated with quitting, and also allows for more socializing. After 18 days, William accepted the city's honourable surrender, swearing an oath not to harm the city or increase its ancient tribute. If a man goes out on a blinder, he might be charged with being drunk and incapable and therefore have a criminal record, although he is an honourable man. Your honourable Uncle Sir Robert Mansel, who is now in the Mediterranean, hath been very notable to me, and I shall ever acknowledge a good part of my Education from him. In 1364, John II died in London, while still in honourable captivity. The neighbouring towns were jealous of this honourable supremacy. But two defeats on from here, will promises of support for this honourable man from the discredited Professor Smirker McKenzie count for anything? There should also be an honourable mention for Michael Shannon's heartbreaking portrayal of John Givings, a man shattered by electroshock therapy. Tanner was the honourable secretary of the Dartmoor Preservation Association, and this reconstruction was one of the first acts of that organisation. Examples from Classical Literature Amphikrates also received an honourable interment from Kleopatra, and his body lies at Sapha, a place in those parts so called. This is the just and honourable ground of that dissidence of feeling on the part of Talleyrand that culminated in desertion. To go back to what is now matter of history, the right honourable Baronet bore a chief part in the restoration of the currency. Helvoet, on the way to Tilburg, is the scene of an old but honourable story. If the degree on the midheaven receives good aspects from the major planets, the position will be honourable and secure. It is honourable of the advertiser to mention the minuteness of the cliffs. If so, we need not fear investigation, because nothing can be detected but an honourable, undissembled mind. He was a man of rather phlegmatic and unimpressionable temperament, but thoroughly honourable and trustworthy. Sternhold and Hopkins, of whom such honourable mention has been made above, were illustrious as doggrel writers. I will not be seduced from the matter in hand by the right honourable gentleman's example. Immediately after this exploit, the garrison of the chartreux capitulated on honourable terms, and were conducted to Antwerp. My last witness was the right honourable Mr. Monk, who spoke as to character. The generosity with which Somers treated his opponents was the more honourable to him because he was no waverer in politics. She had very honourable alliances, and yet she has thought it no degradation to be governess to Madame de Pompadour's daughter. Near worksop grew an Oak, which, in respect both to its own dignity and the dignity of its situation, deserves honourable mention. The existence of paranormal photography is affirmed by sincere and honourable men, and their experiments deserve to be resumed. The preceptorship, however honourable, was perhaps not worth much on the score of emolument. Ning Lai-chn was a Chekiang man, and a good-natured, honourable fellow, fond of telling people that he had only loved once. He was head-steward of the lands to the right honourable Philip, earl of Pembroke. The right honourable was the son of a nobleman, and practised on an old lady. Show More Sentences We have been open, honourable enemies, and have always said we were biding our time. That would have been asking too much, of the most honourable man, in the circumstances. The right honourable Baronet cordially supported the commercial policy of Mr Huskisson. It is quite as honourable, or dishonourable, which ever it may be, as any other branch of business. It would be dishonourable, and he is, so far as I know, an honourable man of business. All work that brings honest gain is honourable, whether it be of hand or mind. Will you ask your honourable and gallant friend, the Captain, to drive home Mr. squinny to Brompton? His compassion was as genuine as his shrinking had been, and in his judgement more honourable. He was very honourable, Traddles was, and held it as a solemn duty in the boys to stand by one another. But it also shows him to be honourable, talented, and clear-headed. You dont mean that its the conventionally honourable thing to do? Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man. If we are honourable people, we will do our devoir in this matter. I had enrolled your name in the list of the honourable dead. Then my honourable friend says that this is an ex post facto law. This is not an honourable way of proceeding in Mr. Lovelace. A most honourable person, but one who has had many misfortunes. There is an ingenuousness, an honourable frankness about him, that I love. And they are so honourable down in the city that nobody ever gets cheated. The professor made me great acknowledgments for communicating these observations, and promised to make honourable mention of me in his treatise. Show More Sentences But, oh, the little girl was brave and tender-hearted and honourable. We can live in friendship with only peaceable honourable people. My brother, like the honourable man he was, wedded the girl he loved. But it is honourable to pay taxes for the upkeep of a good community. It proposes to do so only by means that are honourable and non-violent. In that case, nothing could be more pitiable or more honourable than the sacrifices she had resolved on. John Knightley's, and was destined, if she could please herself, to hold a very honourable station over the mantelpiece. That which is better and more honourable is said to have a natural priority. When he was brought to book, he was honourable enough to recant. The right honourable Baronet, the member for Tamworth, told us so. Oh, of course, our right honourable is too punctilious for that! The kind and once honourable Rob Roy was now driven to desperation. So do, and then prepare the sweet marriage that is honourable in the eyes of men and deathless gods. Hugh and his two friends being known to most of these men, were received with signal marks of approbation, and inducted into the most honourable seats. With a few honourable exceptions, at almost all hotels I have sampled breakfast at, the scrambled egg exercise invariably resulted in an omelette. Having paid his debts, therefore, in the most honourable manner, he retreated with his daughter to the town of Lucerne, where he lived unknown and in wretchedness. Wild West historians acknowledge him as the greatest gunfighter of them all and describe him as intelligent, honourable and a man who never committed murder. Why, then, instead of acting like th' upright, honourable man we've all believed you to be, you've been acting the part of a selfish light-minded scoundrel. The question discomposed me, but I now felt plainly that my principal was endeavouring to excite ideas and wishes in my mind alien to what was right and honourable. Sir Walter, however, would choose his own means, and at last wrote a very fine letter of ample explanation, regret, and entreaty, to his right honourable cousin. Show More Sentences I determined to take a return ticket and jolt my old bones down to Cumberland, on the chance of persuading him to adopt the just, the independent, and the honourable course. To whom this honourable and jocular, member fraternally said one day, 'Jem, there's a good opening among the hard Fact fellows, and they want men. Another Dairy Shorthorn merited an honourable mention, and Kayleigh Coole, showing on behalf of the family, was third in the young handlers class. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of honourable? Words that rhyme with honourable What is the adverb for honourable? What is the adjective for honourable? What is the noun for honourable? Translations for honourable Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Honour honour honor system honors honor roll honorous Honourable honourable mention honourableness honourably honoured honouree 10-letter Words Starting With h ho hon hono honou honour honoura honourab honourabl