But I would be absolutely shocked if Ryan knowingly lied or acted in a dishonourable way.

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Army money-making was becoming a dishonourable distraction from modernising a hopelessly backward war machine.

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When faced with impasse, wriggling through the middle does not have to be dishonourable.

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He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, was demoted and given a dishonourable discharge.

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Now Mr Jospin stands accused of a dishonourable failure to keep a pledge.

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The bill introduced on Thursday would impose dishonourable discharge as a minimum penalty for anyone found guilty of sexual assault or attempted assault.

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The Labour Party appears to have been hijacked by dishonourable people prepared to use dishonourable methods to stifle the free expression of opinion and criticism.

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Scandal-mongering by British domestic servants has a long and dishonourable pedigree.

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Mr Bannatyne enlisted in the Royal Navy at the age of 15, before receiving a dishonourable discharge for threatening to throw an officer off a jetty.

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We all know how that ended up: a number of (dishonourable) members behind bars and many more obliged to admit they had profited from rule-bending and breaking.

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He also criticised the plan to phase out hereditary peers as "confused and dishonourable", telling peers it went against an undertaking made by former Lord Chancellor Lord Irvine of Lairg in 1999 that they would remain until the Upper House was fully reformed.

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