Sentences with phrase «most noble call»

By encouraging more constructive civil discourse, we honor the profession's most noble call, to statesmanship.

Not exact matches

The Marlborough moniker given to the soap above by D.R. Harris alludes to a dukedom and the very same noble house from which Winston Churchill was descended (google «Duke of Marlborough» and «Blenheim Palace» — the latter being only one of a couple non-royal estates in England to be called a palace and a mansion I'm sure most gents will say they've seen in film or on television more than once!).
To give explicitly his own, Christian affirmation of what we might call these proto - feminist complaints about the unjust foundation of «the noblest and most brilliant city Greece ever had» would have, of course, deeply and needlessly offended the ruling men of his time.
Newman considered that «the most noble repentance, the most decorous conduct in a conscious sinner is an unconditional surrender of oneself to God — not a bargaining about terms, not a scheming (so as to call it) to be received back again, but an instant surrender in the first case.»
When we left, my mind was still swirling with the sights, tastes, scents, of Montreal's most global, noble, street, I had one thought: did I just visit ports of call?
He told me that, in spite of everything, he was desperately upset that he hadn't been called up to the front: because he passionately believed that to be a British soldier, defending our values of liberty and peace, was the most noble thing you could be.
On different corners of this campus today there are many convocations, the law school, the government school, the business school — each of these noble callings have taken their turn in working to fulfill this most ambitious promise.
We did not find a direct monetary incentive for awarding demerits, fines, or LaSalles, which is what most Noble schools call detention.
As other commenters have pointed out most of the so called «problems» in this article are Barnes and Noble policies.
The poet W.H. Auden called it «one of the noblest and most absurd undertakings ever...
If Amazon sells between approximately 65 to 74 percent of the ebooks in the United States market one might easily «guess» that it's 3rd most popular e-reader outsells any e-reader model from Barnes and Noble or Kobo and I would not call any of their e-readers flops.
Barnes and Noble is calling the Nook Glowlight Plus the most lightweight e-reader they ever made, at 6.9 ounces.
Barnes and Noble pointed out years ago in a conference call that «most» of their business is in stable backlist sales, and their most valuable asset is their real estate.
This «Plop Art,» as one tabloid called it, is by Paul Noble, the hot favorite to win this year's $ 40,000 Turner Prize, the UK's most prestigious contemporary art award, whose winner will be announced Dec. 3.
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