point of honour
Britishnoun
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Corbyn and his allies made it a point of honour to ignore not just the mainstream media but also the opinion polls.
From The Guardian
I made it a point of honour to salute them, make a small bow, and turn on my heel.
From The Guardian
And yet Chechnya's repressive leader Ramzan Kadyrov insists it's a point of honour to bring back all children of the fatherland.
From BBC
I then made it a point of honour to have written something for each of the magazines I’d listed to get that first job, so that I hadn’t actually lied, I’d just been chronologically challenged ...
From The Guardian
Despite being in solitary confinement behind the high walls and barbed wire of the Florence SuperMax prison high in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, Palmera has become a point of honour for the Farc in the negotiations.
From The Guardian
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