For building a lighthouse could be considered one of man's most noble endeavours.
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Pinot Gris (pronounced "gree") is the black sheep, or anyway, the purple-brown sheep, of one of the grape world's most noble families.
And that most noble of amendments, the 18th: prohibiting alcohol, which was later then repealed by the far more noble 21st amendment.
L'Osservatore Romano said Mr Monti, a loyal Catholic, had launched an appeal to restore the most noble sense of politics to Italy.
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However unpleasant it may be, historically war has also been perceived as noble and our warriors as the most noble members of society.
The erstwhile rice farmer went on to found Future Labs, a desk-conferencing forerunner of WebEx in 1991, in part on the belief that starting up a business was "the most noble thing" one could achieve in America.
The men, from the Bajrang Dal, an organization affiliated with the BJP, were angry about one of Husain's paintings, Sita Rescued, in which the mythological figure of Sita, faithful wife of Hinduism's most noble ruler, Rama, is depicted in the nude.
Through times of tranquility and the throes of change, the Constitution has always guided our course toward fulfilling that most noble promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve the chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.
In fact, he says, most negative ads serve a noble purpose: They are actually more substantive than positive ads.
He also has a number of allies, most vocal of whom is David Noble, a professor of history at Toronto's York University.
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As John McCain proved in the primaries, most Americans believe there are more noble purposes for spending the surplus than putting even more money in the pockets of the wealthiest people in the country.
Instead, it was the Hammers who were doing most of the running, with the energetic Noble particularly impressive in midfield.
Holder also argues that other movements for social change -- the feminist and antiwar movements most notably -- took their cue from the noble efforts of often unsung black Americans who gave their lives unselfishly to improve the lot of their brothers and sisters, and thus, the lot of the nation.
Noble had expected to find three trillion cubic feet at the most.
For the provenance-conscious, the most noteworthy item in this sale is a specimen of azurite on malachite with a noble past.
Thus we should not allow the dramatic power of the most visible narrative, the struggle between oppressed and oppressor, to drown out the sad reality of another less noble story line -- namely that this is still, at least for now, a sectarian conflict.
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