What's the difference between honorable and principled?

Honorable


Definition:

  • (a.) Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious.
  • (a.) High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation.
  • (a.) Proceeding from an upright and laudable cause, or directed to a just and proper end; not base; irreproachable; fair; as, an honorable motive.
  • (a.) Conferring honor, or produced by noble deeds.
  • (a.) Worthy of respect; regarded with esteem; to be commended; consistent with honor or rectitude.
  • (a.) Performed or accompanied with marks of honor, or with testimonies of esteem; an honorable burial.
  • (a.) Of reputable association or use; respectable.
  • (a.) An epithet of respect or distinction; as, the honorable Senate; the honorable gentleman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Spotlight is still the favourite to win best picture A dinner in Beverly Hills was hosted in Spotlight’s honor on Sunday night.
  • (2) Last month, Black Lives Matter Toronto staged a sit-in during the city’s gay pride march, which the group had been invited to join as an honored guest.
  • (3) The Hollander test of gastric secretion in response to acute hypoglycemia is a time-honored method of evaluating vagal integrity.
  • (4) NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said as recently as January that the mascot is "presented in a way that honors Native Americans," and further claimed that nine of 10 Native Americans polled actually support it .
  • (5) The irony of her image being exchanged in return for commodities in the future,” she said, “seems to recall the way that actual slaves’ bodies were serving as currencies of exchange.” Larson arrived at a different conclusion about the honor.
  • (6) Thanksgiving this year should be a worldwide celebration to honor the water protectors and recognize the spiritual battle that has sustained us since the arrival of Columbus,” said Cheryl Angel, a Sicangu Lakota.
  • (7) The memorial service honored those first responders and two civilians who tried to fight the fire and were posthumously named volunteer first responders.
  • (8) We’ve had over 100 years to honor her with our own actions.
  • (9) This article reflects upon five surgeons who have been recognized as worthy of this honor.
  • (10) This week, Reich and his musicians performed three nights of concerts with the Philip Glass Ensemble at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, at a festival in honor of the 50 th anniversary of Nonesuch Records.
  • (11) Frustrated not over economics but “sacred rights”, they were willing to sacrifice “our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor” against the world’s mightiest empire.
  • (12) The gambit worked, and Miami made four straight NBA Finals appearances, winning championships in 2012 and 2013, James taking Finals MVP honors both times.
  • (13) Rather than honoring their sacrifice and recognizing their pain, Mr Trump disparaged the religion of the family of an American hero,” Collins wrote.
  • (14) Honor & Folly ( honorandfolly.com , one bedroom $165 a night, both bedrooms $215, plus a sofabed for children) is a home away from home with a fully stocked kitchen and a cosy living area decorated with vintage and locally crafted furniture.
  • (15) Honor Westnedge, a lead analyst at consultancy Verdict Retail, said: “ Mothercare must emphasise its needs-driven and essential product offer to new parents, as demand for this product is still there but price-led rivals will be luring shoppers away.
  • (16) "I did not see this coming," said Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan , tipping his hat to competitor House of Cards, the first online contender for top Emmy honors.
  • (17) Event recording during anesthesia depends upon the time-honored but inefficient handmade record of the anesthetist.
  • (18) Then, in December, Abe paid a visit to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, where 14 war criminals from the second world war are honored.
  • (19) Yet, the time-honored theory of calcium-soap formation enjoys wide acceptance.
  • (20) In an executive order he ruled that young immigrants who arrived in the US illegally before age 16 and spent at least five continuous years here would be allowed to stay and apply for work permits, providing they had no criminal history and met other criteria, such as graduating from high school or serving honorably in the military.

Principled


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Principle

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Stress is laid on certain principles of diagnostic research in the event of extra-suprarenal pheochromocytomas.
  • (2) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
  • (3) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
  • (4) The White House denied there had been an agreement, but said it was open in principle to such negotations.
  • (5) Using the MTT assay and analyzing the data using the median-effect principle, we showed that synergistic cytotoxic interactions exist between CDDP and VM in their liposomal form.
  • (6) The heretofore "permanently and totally disabled versus able-bodied" principle in welfare reforms is being abbandoned.
  • (7) The binding follows the principle of isotope dilution in the physiologic range of vitamin B12 present in human serum.
  • (8) The principle of the liquid and solid two-phase radioimmunoassay and its application to measuring the concentrations of triiodothyronine and thyroxine of human serum in a single sample at the same time are described in this paper.
  • (9) Spectrophotometric tests for the presence of a lysozyme-like principle in the serum also revealed similar trends with a significant loss of enzyme activity in 2,4,5-T-treated insects.
  • (10) All these strains produced an enterotoxic principle, antigenically related to cholera coli family of enterotoxins, as detected by latex agglutination and immuno-dot-blot tests.
  • (11) The basic principle of the resonant tool, its adaptation for surgery, the experimental results of its use in animals, and clinical experience are reported.
  • (12) It seems tragic, then, that so little of these principles transfer over to the container in which the work is done.
  • (13) This conception of the city as an expression of both regal power and social order, guided by cosmological principles and the pursuit of yin-yang equilibrium, was unlike anything in the western tradition.
  • (14) The general principles of bypass surgery as they affect the cerebral circulation are reviewed.
  • (15) The interest of this view resides in the resulting general principle of classification and interpretation of all forms of disease, giving rise to an "existenialistic pathology".
  • (16) Eight of the UK's biggest supermarkets have signed up to a set of principles following concerns that they were "failing to operate within the spirit of the law" over special offers and promotions for food and drink, the Office of Fair Trading has said.
  • (17) Although the general guiding principle of pharmacotherapy for anxiety disorders--the lowest effective dose for the shortest possible time--remains, this rule should not interfere with the judicious use of medications as long as the benefits justify it.
  • (18) In older stages, the cervical joints rotate according to geometric and lever arm principles.
  • (19) Spain’s constitutional court responded by unanimously ruling that the legislation had ignored and infringed the rules of the 1978 constitution , adding that the “principle of democracy cannot be considered to be separate from the unconditional primacy of the constitution”.
  • (20) The principles and practice of aneasthesia for patients having coronary bypass grafts are discussed.