Appeals to Sir Fred's sense of honour have yielded about as much as an RBS share.

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"It is a tragedy that he should be compelled by his sense of honour to resign in these painful circumstances, " he added.

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When you convene you will be reconvening, with a sense of not wholly the power, not yet wholly the power, but a good sense of what was once in the honour of your grasp.

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Appeals should rather be made to their self-interest, sense of fairness, even to old-fashioned virtues like mercy and honour.

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The first is the decline of honour, which the dead commander embodies in its purest military sense.

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