Sentences with phrase «as a badge of honour»

And I now see wearing dog fur as a badge of honour!

The American, despite its name, is distinctly European in its pace (slow) and outlook (bleak), and it wears its lack of thrills almost as a badge of honour.

«As we enter the general Election period and discuss the future of our country, debate the terms of Brexit and our relationship with the EU, as we also form our new relationship with the world, it is time to wear our aid budget as a badge of honour - one that sets a standard for others to follow.»

A captaincy is there to say this guy is here to lead and organise the team, it is not meant as a badge of honour to say I've served the longest at Arsenal or I've scored the most goals etc. etc..

as a badge of honour due to all the times George Osborne wheeled him out to defend the government.

Overall I personally think it helps the Tory Party enormously to have people like Heidi Allen, Sarah Woollaston, Tamia Matthias as MPs as when people accuse them of being the nasty party they can point to the aforementioned individuals as evidence that they are not, even if selecting such candidates is met by the predictable howls of protest with the very loud minority who saw the Nasty tag as a badge of honour

Those corporates in particular who wear pressure and strain as a badge of honour are driven, whether consciously or subconsciously, to actually seek out stressful situations.

I have met far too many people who brag about their pirating and refusing to pay for comics as a badge of honour.

In the meantime, our bottles will wear this greyish colour which I see as a badge of honour — we are part of the market for recycled products and are proud of that.»

If recycling is an environmental «good», then the wind industry can proudly wear its ability to recycle hundreds of $ Billions of other peoples» money as a badge of honour.

Wherever I traveled around the world, Canada's Iconic Maple Leaf was always worn as a badge of honour on my sleeve.

Although I might quibble that this doesn't fall squarely into the realm of geek - dom, but more into the realm of those amongst us who are especially rules - oriented and — admittedly — a little persnickety (which is something I personally wear as a badge of honour).

For some buyers this unyielding suspension performance is «worn» almost as a badge of honour.

The term was intended to be worn as a badge of honour, like «loyalist», «crusader» or «republican».

But there's a trend going around, one that encourages people to view their cognitive dissonance — that defense mechanism that helps to keep us from being able to live with certain biases and prejudices when they conflict with reality — as a badge of honour, like they are better because they realize that they are feel to reject logic, fact, reason.

Her pride in being «normal» is something she wears as a badge of honour, celebrating her Brummy accent, determined to carry on speaking in her own voice because «if we don't start sounding like the public, ordinary people will disengage and we'll be left with the Establishment holding court and we can't have that!»

In todays busy society it's can become easy to fall behind on sleep and some people even wear that as a badge of honour.

A celebrity, cameoing as herself, politely acknowledges Howard's existence, and he proceeds to repeat this comically minimal tidbit as an anecdote, wearing it as a badge of honour throughout the film.

Wearing a smeared chorus of yellow, green and brown across its grille, lights and windshield, almost as a badge of honour, the Amarok sat happily in the driveway.

Mitch seems to want to wear, as a badge of honour, that he is prepared to offend.

It's an old faux fur coat, which has been auctioned at several Royal LePage Shelter Foundation events and appears to be getting ever - more unlikely amounts as bidders clamour to own it as a badge of honour.