Sentences with phrase «honourable exception»

With honourable exceptions the BBC does not give an accurate and authentic portrayal of the evangelical church in the UK.

There has been bafflement at why Lib Dem parliamentarians, members of a party with civil liberties at its core, are allowing this bill to go though, with only a few honourable exceptions voting the right way.

There are some very honourable exceptions to this, but as a general rule, law schools have kept a low profile in, or even absented themselves from, the important discussions and debates taking place right now about the future of law.

«The prevailing view of Beeb newsrooms is, with honourable exceptions, statist, corporatist, defeatist, anti-business, Europhile and, above all, overwhelmingly biased to the Left,» he wrote in the Daily Telegraph last May.

Intending no disrespect to the great Jesuit theologian himself, the way Trinitarian theology has been taught, with admittedly a few honourable exceptions, has left many of us unaware of the preceding 2,000 years of reflection on the matter.

An honourable exception to the lack of quality on show in claret and blue yesterday was Marko Arnaoutovic who once again demonstrated what an exceptional player he can be.

It's fair to say that Wenger, with the honourable exceptions of Campbell and Kosczelny (sp?)

Unlike almost all of them - Alan Beith is another honourable exception - he held onto it at the next general election and subsequently until his eventual retirement in 1992.

With a few honourable exceptions, MPs on the Finance Bill Public Bill Committee take little part in proceedings; such debate as there is, can often be characterised by political knock - about rather than diligent technical scrutiny.

The largely dispiriting nature of the UK leadership contest, with the honourable exception of Jeremy Corbyn, only strengths the SNP, whilst innovative groups like the Scottish Left Project are moving beyond the nebulous rhetoric of «social justice» preached by the SNP to a genuinely left wing politics.

Meetings at my own University of Essex are, of course, an honourable exception.

Gove, however, is an honourable exception.

With the honourable exception of YouGov's poll of party members on the one occasion that Conservative party members actually elected the leader, opinion polls have been a remarkably poor predictor of who will win a Conservative leadership election.

These MPs, with some honourable exceptions, have been cowed into silence on Brexit (although not on other matters, like the Dubs amendment, sex education and grammar schools).

The book argued that the boomers should be voted out of Parliament, with a few honourable exceptions - I survive his cull as a «self - hating boomer»!

12:22 - One honourable exception to the Labour rule.

«Labour had the perfect opportunity to join the SNP in a progressive coalition to oppose the Tories - but with some honourable exceptions they sat on their hands,» she said.

[Francis Maude being an honourable exception].

The rest of the European Left never quite went the neo con distance that Blair et al took the Labour Party, but with a few honourable exceptions, the political surrender to free market fundamentalism drove many of the social democratic parties to run up the white flag.

Lav Diaz and Ivo Ferreira also suggest that maybe cinema is finally starting to address the history of colonial warfare in a proper way, a theme which has been sadly neglected in the past (with some honourable exceptions).

This is the honourable exception.

By and large, and with a few honourable exceptions, MPs trooped baa - ing through the lobbies after their party leaders.

(Of course, there are honourable exceptions.)