The dishonour would come from abandoning Iraq's long-suffering people for the sake of a deadline.

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The girl's father told the BBC that they feared she would bring dishonour on their family.

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And in some cultures it was seen as a patriotic alternative to dishonour.

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Mr Turk rescued her from a life of potential dishonour by taking her under his wing as a second wife.

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Residents of Chaulnes, who have their own reasons for opposing the scheme, say the airport will dishonour the memory of the thousands of WWI soldiers buried in the area.

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Given the proliferation of biographical and critical studies of Kipling in recent years, it is hardly surprising that some of his points have been made by previous writers, though it is no dishonour that his analysis here is close to George Orwell's.

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For instance, accusations of dishonour may emerge because someone from an older migrant generation remains utterly tied to the culture or code of their village - and fails to accept their children have been brought up in modern British society with all that goes with that.

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