Honor
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The AFL-CIO, the United Auto Workers and the United Steel Workers then petitioned Congress – against strong opposition from business interests – to establish the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation in 1974 to insure private pensions against companies’ failure to
honor
them.
Today, it is impossible to tell what impact and how much influence Chinese traditional political thought – the traditional concern with moral duty, happiness, and
honor
– will have on China’s foreign policy.
Ghana has never had a civil war - a badge of
honor
in conflict-prone sub-Saharan Africa - and three years ago staged a peaceful transfer of power from one elected government to another.
Indeed, Hirschman’s seminal contributions have now been recognized by the United States Social Science Research Council, which this year established a prize in his
honor.
Allowing full debate of Trumpism while refusing to
honor
it would be no different.
The second requires that the engagement be carefully calibrated, with not even a semblance of
honor
or recognition bestowed on those serving an administration that so grossly violates liberal democratic norms.
But, above all, it is an
honor
and a privilege to play such a role in our society, and I know that the vast majority of officials, legislators, judges, and civil servants with whom I’ve worked would agree.
Al-Shabaab’s leadership wears criticism from the West like a badge of
honor.
After the match, Singh said that “India and Pakistan should be working together to find cooperative solutions and need permanent reconciliation to live together in dignity and
honor.
With the nuclear phase-out, for example, Germany can now
honor
its commitments to combat climate change only by damaging, and perhaps losing, part of its industrial base.
Bin Laden often recites poetry to underscore a point and to associate himself with chivalrous and learned warriors who were willing to become martyrs for Islam’s
honor
and glory.
Here are a few lines of the kind of poetry that Al Qaeda uses:I do not sell our
honor
like a pimpthat I should lower my eyes, or surrender.
Poetically, he attacks Muslim men’s masculinity and sense of
honor
for not defending Islam.
And, if a person became indebted, it was a point of
honor
to repay the obligation when it fell due, by selling assets, reducing consumption, working harder, or some combination of the three.
Indeed, it was often more than a point of honor: failure to repay debt on time landed the debtor in prison.
Again, it was a point of
honor
for governments to pay back such debts as they were incurred, whatever the sacrifice to the country.
BRUSSELS – For months now, a fight over sovereign-debt restructuring has been raging between those who insist that Greece must continue to
honor
its signature and those for whom the country’s debt should be partly canceled.
A government determined to
honor
its debts at any cost often ends up imposing a tax burden that is disproportionate to the level of services that it supplies; at a certain point, this discrepancy becomes socially and politically unsustainable.
In choosing our priorities, we need to
honor
and reconcile different views about what counts and how to count it, in what will be – and should be – messy, participatory, democratic processes.
We must “restore the ancient truths” that growing, making, managing, and inventing things should have higher status, more honor, and greater rewards than whatever it is that financiers do.
But the moral calculus becomes a bit more intricate when you cannot make good on all of your commitments and have to decide which to
honor
and which to avoid.
In
honor
of this historic event, statues of two leaders in the struggle for women’s suffrage, Millicent Fawcett and Emmeline Pankhurst, are to be erected in British cities.
Let us
honor
Mandela’s legacy by taking urgent, cooperative, and comprehensive action to achieve the SDGs.
Into this vacuum have stepped tribal gangs including the ethnic Kalenjin Sabaot Land Defence Force and the Luo Taliban, which was named, according to one member, in
honor
of its Afghan heroes’ “defense of their people and way of life.”
With so much riding on Padmavati’s image as a symbol of female
honor
and purity, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, the Bollywood filmmaker who set out to make a film of her story, unwittingly became a target of historical passions.
For example, following President Park Geun-hye’s request that Xi
honor
the Korean assassin of a Japanese prime minister, to which Xi readily agreed, she began to discuss joining the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade negotiations, in order to assuage the US.
And yet, as long as global growth remains weak, Africans cannot count on developed countries to fully
honor
their commitments to help attain the Sustainable Development Goals.
The court ruled that, ultimately, freedom to express one's thoughts, however generously conceived in a democracy, must be balanced against other values, such as reputation, honor, privacy, dignity, and equality.
French President Jacques Chirac has joined Blair and Brown in a bold call for rich countries to
honor
their promises to the poor.
The people of Hong Kong continue to confront bravely the Goliath that threatens their values, even holding June vigils to
honor
the victims of the Beijing massacre – something that no mainland group would be permitted to do.
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