Noble rhetoric!

2008 will not be remembered chiefly for noble or heroic acts.

Figure 2 shows the Maxwell Boltzmann distribution for the speeds of the atoms in four noble gases.

In the name of History, Che, too, saw murder as a necessary tool of a noble cause.

Genetic algorithms are great for certain things I suspect I know what they're bad at, and I won't tell you.

That's why the child's development in the orchestra and the choir provides him with a noble identity and makes him a role model for his family and community.

Of course, the case for the euro was always political and came in two varieties earthy and lofty.

In July 1997, the Secretary General affirmed that the United Nations is a noble experiment in human cooperation.

Women have also made active contributions to cultural and information sphere, for which they were acknowledged and presented noble titles by the State.

How noble are intentions when the facts showing their horrific results are readily at hand yet overlooked?

This made the notion of celibacy, a perhaps noble, but for most people impossible ideal, bearable.

He was descended from a noble family which had originally sprung from the Mark of Brandenburg, and of which one branch had been for over 300 years settled in Saxony.

Beatrice of Rethel (c. 1130 32 30 March 1185) was a French noblewoman and the third Queen consort of the King Roger II of Sicily.

He made up his mind to take up politics as a career, which was a common choice for scholars not from a noble family during the Warring States period.

Africa is showing clear signs of it Peace is not done first in the name of abstractions, in the name of ideals, however noble they may be, but it is done in the name of economic interests

This highlighted the problem that such forces could use the cover of political or ideological causes to camouflage illegally acquiring a source of wealth as a noble enterprise.

I would also like to thank all our Permanent Representatives, representatives and staff for the noble spirit in which they have worked and for the support they have given me and my Office during these first 100 days.

Unfortunately, much as FTTs are the darling of leading liberal economic commentators and Robin Hood NGOs, they are an extremely misguided approach to achieving such worthy ends.

Common sense dictates that, from the moment of its discovery, nuclear energy should only ever have been exploited for honourable purposes and to serve the well being and economic development of all countries.

According to Shamas, Under the concept of martyrdom', Palestinian society and culture demand that women suppress their grief when their children or husbands are killed, for they are believed to have died a noble', worthy' and indeed holy' death.

The adoption in March 2002 of the Monterrey Consensus, with its noble themes surrounding development and the support that the developed world should confer upon developing countries, was not viewed by developing countries as a panacea.

Such behaviour does great harm to the distinguished tradition of United Nations peacekeeping, to the Member States that contribute troops to peacekeeping missions and to the reputation and honour of fellow peacekeepers who have served selflessly and to high purpose for decades.

For instance, the concepts of freedom from want , freedom from fear and freedom to live in dignity have been enshrined in many religious philosophies as noble pursuits, and emulating those age old concepts in our efforts could act as a catalyst.

A noble cause, but one that was overshadowed this year by the last minute cancellation of the screening of 'The Open Sky', a 20 minute documentary film about a friendship between a Buddhist woman and a Muslim woman amidst the communal violence that gripped the town of Meikhtila last year.

The memos that the Obama administration has disclosed teach us that anyone who complies with seemingly noble principles dictated by a sense of duty or by the necessary defense of the homeland, or who is urged by a basic fear for his own life and welfare, or the lives and welfare of his kin, can become a torturer.

The desire to help others without consideration for ourselves is not just a noble ideal. Selflessness raises the quality and elevates the meaning of our lives, and that of our descendants in fact, our very survival may even depend on it.

Many of McNamara s critics assert rightly, I think that he stopped short of full understanding, that he sought to hold fast to claims of noble intentions that the record could not sustain. How noble are intentions when the facts showing their horrific results are readily at hand yet overlooked?