Sentences with phrase «noble reasons»

All those I know who work for the church do so for noble reasons.

If only the purpose of a portfolio was for a more noble reason besides sharing investment returns with their buddies during the next poker night.

This is a great and noble reason all by itself, but there is so much more to it than that.

I've heard that in other ancient flood stories, people were saved for other less noble reasons.

Loren Quiring, The Flight of Noble Reason: Aaron Sorkin's American Presidents.

As noble a reason as that might seem to some, perhaps just as good is that Kick - Ass 2 is so wretched that it not only shouldn't be seen by kids, but pretty much anyone else, save perhaps for those completely titillated by any feeble rails against political correctness for the sake of seeming hip and edgy.

By Friday, though, the game was off, the perception of callousness being too much to overcome, however noble the reasoning.

There are many noble reasons to adopt a mutt, but there are practical ones too!

Though it may seem like an odd choice for Polyphony to place a sports car from GM on the cover, Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi gives a very noble reason behind it.

There are several noble reasons to bike for transportation (see below), but that doesn't mean we should neglect to value the fun of bicycling.

Moreover, even though most teachers enter the profession for noble reasons and with great enthusiasm, many of those in urban schools know little about their students and find it hard to reach them.

Just as unsettling, though for less noble reasons, is the suicide humor (albeit delivered by a fish) tossed randomly into «Horton Hatches the Egg», a cartoon that as a whole is the least faithful of all the adaptations on the DVD — while the gag of following «now I've seen everything!»

It's perhaps the noblest reason for cooking the books in movie history, but of course still a legal nightmare.

There were some noble reasons to try and organize ancient peoples, but in our current stage in history, religion has become an outdated, hypocritical source of leadership motivated by power and greed like all big business.

Martyrs are those who suffer but their groans, far from being a disavowal of what they were, express the noble reason for their deaths and change the apparent fatality into an absolute proof of loge.

«It is for this noble reason that our organisation felt to celebrate the state and Mr. Governor on this investiture ceremony as a sign of appreciation towards making education the bedrock of development.

The less - than - noble reason is (of course) all the food.

This makes him a complicated villain, one who does things for what he truly believes are noble reasons, although he is clearly doing some morally depraved things with his power, in fact, bordering on genocide.

In fact, looking at the above chart might give Barnes & Noble a reason to reach out to indies for merchandising opportunities, and also to readers in order to promote these works.

They're doing it for noble reasons.

Then they do things like trade theirs for a bigger home, or borrow against that equity for one noble reason or another.

This was undoubtedly done for both noble reasons (The American Dream, affordable shelter, supporting family structure, etc) and some more shady reasons (help builders, mortgage brokers and banks make a bundle in the process).

One of the noblest reasons to get a mix breed dog is that they are rarely craved for and often need to be put to sleep in the shelter.

I'd like to tell you that I chose this path for carefully considered and noble reasons, but I can't.