Honor
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In fact, both have failed to take seriously the cultural differences – on issues like women’s rights, minority rights, family honor, and individual liberties – between asylum-seekers, mainly from the Middle East and North Africa, and the European societies where they hope to live.
Originally an ancient
honor
code, Farhang ensures the dominance of the oldest male of any household, followed by married sons, unmarried sons, and grandsons, then wives (with the youngest at the bottom).
A family’s principal “cultural capital” is its honor, which is ensured by denying women any opportunity to highlight male failings and therefore tarnish clan respectability.
Every female simultaneously carries her father’s and her husband’s honor, and will stoically submit to all forms of violence committed in its name.
All countries, but especially the major players, have a responsibility to
honor
their commitment to the Doha Round.
In fact, the US fails to achieve a single green ranking for any of the 17 SDGs, sharing this dubious
honor
with only Greece, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, Spain, and Turkey, among OECD nations.
Never again: for history’s victims, that is our truest debt of
honor.
It now seems clear that if we want a non-proliferation treaty with more teeth – for example, tougher monitoring and surveillance – countries with nuclear weapons will have to
honor
what others believe is their side of an unfair bargain.
Milton Friedman was not the most famous and influential economist in the world -- that
honor
belongs to John Maynard Keynes.
An attempt at a primary to choose Fatah candidates backfired, owing to fraud and the losers’ refusal to
honor
the results.
And what they are doing has left a deep stain on our
honor
and national reputation.
Likewise, India is all in a quandary over how to handle protocol during Sarkozy’s impending visit to the subcontinent as the guest of
honor
at the country’s Republic Day celebrations on January 26.
Viewed this way, Trump’s isolationism is a populist way of saying that the US needs to withdraw from commitments which it has neither the power nor the will to
honor.
And, far from excluding the current goal of ending poverty, it would embrace poverty reduction as an outcome of building stable, prosperous societies, in which citizens, through their taxes, are able and willing to fund capable and responsive states that
honor
agreed global standards and rules.
Putin’s trip will be his first official visit to Japan in a decade; and Abe plans to
honor
him with personalized treatment; their discussions will take place in the manly environment of an onsen (hot spring), rather than in dull offices.
In recent weeks, many European countries have pledged to
honor
the 0.7% commitment, and five European countries (Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden) already do so.
Again as in Chile, they suggest that, while political regimes are transient, the heart and
honor
of a nation always rests with its Army.
Turkey thus argues that the charge of genocide is designed to besmirch Turkey’s
honor
and impede its progress towards EU accession.
But, despite almost half a century of membership in the Council of Europe – ostensibly a guardian of human rights, including freedom of speech and conscience – Turkey still punishes a crime against national
honor
any suggestion that the Armenian genocide is an historic truth.
But, while their antipathy to big business appears to
honor
their intellectual roots, progressives have lost the plot when it comes to competition.
The Nobel bylaws do not allow splitting a prize into more than three parts, thereby excluding discoveries that entailed work by more than three researchers, or omitting key persons who equally deserved to share in the
honor.
The guest of
honor
at this consequential event was none other than Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, Stephen Bannon.
The entire movie theater rose in their
honor.
The US and China are in a race to be the world’s worst polluter;America has long won the contest, but in the next few years, China will claim that dubious
honor.
This is also an occasion to
honor
the survivors, by supporting their call to eliminate all nuclear weapons, thereby ensuring that no one will ever suffer as they have.
The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP, which led the previous government) has criticized the current administration for not “expressing concern over the use of force by the Chinese government” and instead “adopting a policy of appeasement towards China with scant regard to the country’s national
honor
and foreign policy independence.”
The Millennium Villages Project, which I have the
honor
of helping to lead, has demonstrated that pastoralist communities can be empowered through targeted investments in livestock management, veterinary care, business development, mobile health clinics, boarding schools, and local infrastructure such as safe water points, off-grid electricity, and mobile telephony.
But isn’t this what politicians like to do – smile for the cameras, and then fail to
honor
their promises?
Too few governments or politicians ever accept this debt to
honor.
The old civil service in countries like Britain or Germany embraced an approach to their tasks that made it a matter of
honor
to perform well.
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