Honorable Sentence Examples

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  • We will have ended war with an honorable peace.

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  • Everybody isn't as honorable as you, Carmen.

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  • He speaks highly of Taran, says he is an honorable man.

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  • They were different men with different purposes, yet both honorable to the core.

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  • You know, Count, it is much more honorable to admit one's mistake than to let matters become irreparable.

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  • I'll fetch a piece of cloth at once for such an honorable gentleman, or even two pieces with pleasure.

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  • You are the strongest, most honorable person I've ever known.

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  • He was honorable and good.

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  • Had she ever understood how honorable and good he was?

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  • He's fair, honorable, a stickler for the Code, and not someone anyone will mess with.

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  • He was the most honorable man she'd ever known.

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  • Carmen's intentions were honorable, but she was incredibly naïve.

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  • It was untroubled by rebellion or by foreign invasions, so that the king won the honorable title of Rex Pacificus.

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  • The most honorable passage in its history is the part it took in forwarding the great, though temporary, reform of the monastic orders, which was a favorite object with Queen Isabella.

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  • His brother shut him up in honorable confinement for the rest of his life, though otherwise he was not ill-treated.

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  • It wasn't an honorable trade in my time, but money made up for it.

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  • The duke of Albany, who became regent when Robert died, had no wish to see his nephew return, and concluded a corrupt agreement with the king of England, by which he undertook to keep Scotland out of the strife, if Henry would prevent the rightful heir from returning to claim his own.i Hence Albany and his son ruled at Edinburgh for seventeen years, while James was detained in an honorable captivity at Windsor.

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  • For many of the actions of that government no honorable man can think of uttering a word of defence.

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  • At last a dispute in regard to the officering of the artillery gave the king an honorable excuse for resigning a throne on which both he and his wife had been treated with the utmost insolence.

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  • And then I saw how good his heart is.  He's a train wreck, but he's honorable and capable of such good.  Kris pulled me into this world and assumed I'd do what I was told like a good little human.  But when I told Rhyn I wanted to leave him, he asked for another chance.  It's like he woke up then and realized he wasn't in Hell anymore or trapped by his brothers' expectations.

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  • You are offended at being put on duty a bit, but why not apologize to an old and honorable officer?

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  • Frederick returned into an honorable captivity and died in January 1330.

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  • True, the Persians continued State of the to produce brave and honorable men.

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  • Queen Eleanor, whom her husband regarded as responsible for the whole rebellion, was placed in a sort of honorable captivity, or retirement, and denied her royal state.

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  • The Whigs were charged with refusing to make peace when an honorable and satisfactory peace was not beyond their reach.

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  • It's a shame for a soldier to steal; a soldier must be honest, honorable, and brave, but if he robs his fellows there is no honor in him, he's a scoundrel.

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  • Rudolph has often been called the restorer of the German kingdom, but he has little real claim to this honorable title.

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  • Judging by past experience, the combination might well seem hopeless, and honorable men like Fox might easily regard it with suspicion.

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  • Mrida was the only town which offered an honorable resistance.

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  • Now tell me, Count, was it right, was it honorable, of Bezukhov?

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  • Throughout the whole province "Uncle" had the reputation of being the most honorable and disinterested of cranks.

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  • If he is an honorable man he should either declare his intentions or cease seeing you; and if you won't do this, I will.

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  • At least he was honorable, but if the look on his face was any indication, he was regretting that offer.

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  • Very honorable of you to give her a choice of being with you after how she treated you all those years.

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  • Honorable, even admirable, but what kind of a marriage would that be?

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  • He always hoped to bring about an honorable agreement between the two adversaries, and in his estimation the advantages of peace outweighed personal interest.

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  • Without regaining that preponderance in the Levant which had been secured after the victory of Lepanto and before the civil wars, Marseilles still took an honorable place there, confirmed by the renewal in 1604 of the capitulations of Francis I.

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  • Whatever Bogdanich may be, anyway he is an honorable and brave old colonel!

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  • If an employee believes his company is honorable and doing good, he may be less inclined to steal from the company.

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  • There are honorable grounds for upholding the authority of the United Nations and opposing American global domination.

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  • Mr. Pond had borne an excellent reputation as an astute and honorable business man, successful politician and an exceedingly genial companion.

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  • By the right honorable the Lord Admirall, his seruauntes.

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  • Theirs was the affectation of respectability; if indeed there be an affectation so honorable.

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  • And if He chooses to be glorified in judgment by making a vessel that is not honorable, that's His choice.

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  • Paine's conduct in the affair was apparently quite honorable, tho certainly very indiscreet.

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  • Jim was an honorable and modest man, a hard wor k er and always willing to help anyone at any time.

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  • You, O king, shall not stain the honorable mouth of my old age, nor my long life lived lawfully.

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  • But before we get to tonight's headliners Five O'Clock Heroes deserve an honorable mention.

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  • Hill makes inspired use of Bronson's laconic, unemotional style of acting to provide an almost mythic celebration of the honorable fighting hero.

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  • They sent here a plenipotentiary, an honorable gentleman, very intelligent and possessing general confidence.

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  • For Beckett or the nouveau roman, Calder Publications have a long and honorable tradition.

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  • Can Melissa triumph over her essentially selfish nature, and do the honorable thing?

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  • Feng shui is an honorable calling with an ancient tradition.

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  • Honorable mentions to both fullbacks; Elvin again showing his versatility by covering at leftback and Cullen looking uncompromising at rightback.

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  • In 1825 the reactionary parlement once more brought back the middle ages, by decreeing the death penalty for public profanation, the execution to be preceded by the amende honorable before the church doors.

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  • The Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us that the Earth has a weight of six sextillion tons (a unit followed by 21 ciphers).

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  • Because pleasure and historical boats boast lots of wood and brass, with an honorable mention to etched glass, choose a bed that can give you that lush hardwood look.

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  • Ooh La La also recently won an honorable mention in the Hollywood Creative Connection Short Comedy Screenplay Competition.

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  • Eagle Scout scholarships are awarded for honorable service, dedication to others and recognized leadership qualities.

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  • Then there is another group of people who may present themselves well when they agree to take one or more puppies home, but their intentions are far from honorable.

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  • Since the first Olympics in ancient Greece, running has been an honorable activity as well as a great form of exercise and a recognized sport.

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  • The all-time best selling game was Alien vs. Predator, but there are others that deserve honorable mention as well.

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  • Belonging to this group is considered very honorable because the members are performing a service to the dead that can never be repaid.

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  • Please note that proof of honorable discharge must accompany the application form.

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  • There are several military discharge types, which range from honorable to dishonorable.

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  • Military veterans with war and peacetime service experience are eligible to apply for VA loans, assuming their service discharge was honorable.

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  • While the website leaves much to be desired, the mission is honorable and the process of donating your car through this organization is very easy.

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  • This will assure them of your honorable intentions toward their child and will help smooth the path for further relationship development in case the two of you hit it off.

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  • Service members, often brave, honorable, and kind, can make wonderful partners.

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  • Marc Sobel won honorable mention in a haiku competition that was featured on the Daily Show with John Stewart.

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  • While there are many honorable reasons to exchange promise rings, not all promises are as meaningful as those that include a long term, heartfelt commitment.

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  • These honorable mentions were all significant moments in Days history.

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  • The iron cross's popular symbolism as a tattoo comes from honorable German history combined with military valor.

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  • A practitioner of the Dark Arts, the Bishop, enraged at having his dishonourable advances refused in favor of the Captain's far more honorable ones, cast a curse upon the two lovers; that they would spend half of each day as an animal.

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  • In despair at his kind rejection, Eowyn disguises herself as a man to ride with her father's army, in search of an honorable death on the field of battle.

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  • The web hosts below were selected by ASPnet PRO as the top three ASP web hosts within the industry, a very honorable distinction.

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  • He's as sweet as he can be and I have no doubt his intentions are honorable.

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  • He was torn between wanting to confront Ne'Rin and demand he make his sister an honorable woman and laughing out loud to know that he had chosen a nishani capable of healing his planet, his people.

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  • In truth, his intentions were honorable.

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  • If you want Carmen, you'd better make your intentions honorable.

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  • He bristled at the mention of Rhyn in the same sentence as Andre.  One half-brother had been noble, courageous, honorable, willing to sacrifice himself for their cause.  Rhyn was the opposite.

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  • London Luton airport was officially opened in July 1938 by the right honorable Kingsley Wood, secretary of state for Air.

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  • The honorable Member for Birmingham had made a very dexterous speech, a skillful evolution in favor of the middle classes.

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  • The talking heads were, with a few honorable exceptions, dull and uninformed to a man jack.

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  • He'd been a good kid, lost, but honorable.

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  • Despite being polar opposites, they were both honorable to the core and two of the most powerful Naturals ever discovered.

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  • He moved away from the Lake.  He had a long journey ahead of him, one he didn't relish taking.  But, if he was to be the honorable Death that mortals and Immortals alike deserved, he had to do it.  Gabe's thoughts went to his predecessor once again.  He couldn't help wondering what happened to her.  He'd expected her abandonment of the underworld would grant him some sort of peace or reprieve.  However, after thousands of years with the vexing deity, he found himself lonely instead.

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  • Carmen's intentions were honorable, but she was incredibly naïve.

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  • What he wanted was a woman with yesterday's morals and today's savvy – someone both passionate and honorable.

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  • Not that I would put an affront upon the learning of any of those honorable employments, much less upon their persons.

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  • The title " fellow soldier, " by the way, is a very, very honorable title.

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  • Other than illegal content, the web hosts mentioned above stand above all other hosting companies in their honorable and patriotic protection of freedom of speech.

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  • He.s the most flawed of anyone I.ve ever met, but he.s a more honorable man than you.ll ever be!

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