Sentences with phrase «more honorable»

Maybe to make me look more honorable?)

«Nowhere is this service deemed more honorable than in case of appointment to represent an accused too poor to hire a lawyer, even though the accused may be a member of an unpopular or hated group, or may be charged with an offense which is peculiarly abhorrent.»

A vision, put negatively at first, of what must not be done — so that, over time, we will edge nearer to a more honorable and decent world, where «equal justice» will not only be a phrase cut in the marble of a particular Washington, D. C. building, but something known and felt to be a daily given the world over.

To me, anything was more honorable than being a part of the machine that was raining flaming death on little girls.

64) «A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.»

Provident Mutual was more honorable, and so I became their investment actuary in the Pension Division.

He brings with him the maniacal Lord Kira (Tadanobu Asano), who, along with a beautiful witch (Rinko Kikuchi), concoct a scheme to trick Asano into attacking an unarmed Kira, a crime punishable by execution or a more honorable ritual suicide called seppuku.

Deciding it is more honorable to overthrow Hitler than continue to serve him, a group of German resistance fighters attempt to assassinate their dictator.

He retains vestiges of the chivalry so important to Chandler's conception of the private detective «who is neither tarnished nor afraid» and is all the more honorable as a man maintaining his principles because he's a shabby, mumbling existential loser out of time.

Those people are pretty much absent from this admittedly fictionalized account of Seal's life, which treats him like a charming rogue — he's played by Tom Cruise, definitely not a lookalike — with motives more honorable than outright greed and corruption.

Directed by Fisher Stevens and hosted by newly Oscar - annointed Leonardo DiCaprio who talks with the likes of Pope Francis and President Barack Obama, «Before the Flood» is another global warming warning sign, more honorable in its intentions than in having a distinct voice to ultimately make a difference.

However, his motivations are far more honorable than most bad guys.

Maybe to make me look more honorable?)

I convinced myself that it was more honorable to give my kids every last drop of time and energy than focusing on myself.

Being kind is more challenging and more honorable.

So when you guys are looking to work with somebody, it's — to me it's a lot more honorable if you've had somebody that's been in the trenches themselves, where we had to fix us to keep going to help other people.

Perhaps the only folks whose gym efforts are even more honorable than those of the seriously overweight people are those of the 60 + guys and gals.

When I voted for David Cameron to become leader of our party, I really believed he was a better, more honorable man, than Tony Blair ever could be.

«Unfortunately, the relentless attempts made by a select few of Albany insiders to discredit candidates in this race has only served as a distraction in what should be a more honorable process,» Coughlan said in his prepared statement.

I can't think of a song more honorable than the Star Spangled Banner, and my singers took the performance seriously and carried themselves very professionally.

Unfortunately, the relentless attempts made by a select few of Albany insiders to discredit candidates in this race has only served as a distraction in what should be a more honorable process.

Speaking in Rochester — one of several stops — Schneiderman outlined his «End New York Corruption Now Act,» which he says has three main goals: end the pernicious effect of outside money in politics and government; ensure every act of corruption is met with a swift, serious response; and encourage more honorable people to pursue public service.

The governor said both Democrats entered politics during a simpler, «more honorable» time and had the same basic philosophy on government.

I used to think older guys were more honorable, however its the younger coaches that are showing this trait.

Nine minutes in the name of hummus certainly seems more honorable than some of the time - wasters I spend nine (or more) minutes on.

He was replaced by Festus, a more honorable person who tried to dispense justice in the cases tried.

«When you are invited by anyone to a marriage feast, do not sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than you might be invited by him, and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, «make room for this person.»

What is more honorable than giving dignity and respect to those being denied it by the majority?

There is apparently no thought given to the notion that, in a Christian community, celebrating a faithful and dedicated professor might be more honorable than fighting yet another skirmish in the great gender war.

Only in this way does man's soul become more honorable and perfect, an intelligible microcosm comparable to the existing Macrocosm, and become ready to enjoy the greatest happiness in the world to come.

Humility is a much more honorable trait than intellect.

The venture capital industry is a more honorable than some other areas of finance.

Not exact matches

Despite Carnival's honorable intentions, the contract was highly criticized because Carnival was earning more money than it normally would have had the ships been used as vacation spots.

We'd humbly like to add one more: Inc.'s Entrepreneur of the Year (turn to page 68 for six honorable mentions).

But it's more profitable — and just right — to instill honorable conduct at every level of your company

«Before his conviction, Mr. Libby had rendered more than a decade of honorable service to the Nation as a public servant at the Department of State, the Department of Defense, and the White House.

Comey, according to the Beast's sources, says he told Kelly not to quit because «this president» more than others needed honorable people around him.

I leave it to one of the greatest minds of all time who wrote... Quote: «The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still purely primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.»

As Albert Einstein wrote: «God is nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.»

The government's display of the creche in this particular physical setting [is] no more an endorsement of religion than such governmental «acknowledgments» of religion as legislative prayers,... government declaration of Thanksgiving as a public holiday, printing of «In God We Trust» on coins, and opening court sessions with «God save the United States and this honorable court.»

«The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends,» Einstein wrote in German in a 1954 letter that will be auctioned on eBay later this month.

And they're a little more weighty and substantial than the fact that some of us won an «honorable mention» ribbon for coming in last place sometime in fourth grade.

The transfigured one's visit to you as an individual will give you that courage of frankness — but what am I speaking of — and if you actively consider the occasion of this talk, then you will stand as an individual before a still more exalted one who, none the less, thinks still more humanly — about the meanness of the occupation, but also infinitely more purely about which occupation is truly honorable.

Just for you, Tarver... «The Word of God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish» — Albert Einstein

«The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still purely primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.

In a sense, this, too, would be a more honest and honorable way of dealing with telos.

Gladnotmorm — You not being a Mormon already makes Mormonism more attractiive to good and honorable people.

Rousseau says, more or less, that the genuinely unfashionable or thoughtful professor today takes the side of the Republicans, the home - schoolers, orthodox communities of faith, and the honorable, violent, and deeply Christian and charitable Southerner who tears up when he hears Lee Greenwood sing.

«Not - Knowing» is more honest and honorable than «Knowing» something that is hopelessly false.

That violent revolution wherever possible should be averted by any honorable means, since it not only induces hate and bloodshed but often destroys more than it builds;