1. rate
At this rate, the risk is high that our country's competitive position will drop even further.
divorce rate
As the attendees of the DTA General Meeting will be offered the block rate, when you reserve Marriott Hotel for me, please notify them that I will attend it.
A recent analysis by Boeing forecasts that unless safety is improved, jet airliners could be falling out of the sky at the rate of once a week by the year 2010.
In China, there is a large number of characters, so the goal of the character simplification was to replace the complex traditional characters with easy to remember simplified characters and increase the literacy rate.
While the birth rate is intended to be decreased in developing countries, that of developed nations is selfishly planned to be increased, resulting in the difficulty of getting mutual consent.
Japan's ODA largely consists of concessionary yen credit repayable in 30 years, carrying an interest rate of 2% or so.
One month since entering high school ... not a single friend yet. That's really terrible, at this rate it will be middle-school all over again!!
Although an increase of unmarried mothers is needed in order to escape the declining birth rate for some reason public opinion in Japan is avoiding this argument.
A high savings rate is cited as one factor for Japan's strong economic growth because it means the availability of abundant investment capital.
Women in their hearts think that men are intended to earn money so that they may spend it, if possible during their husband's lifetime, but at any rate after his death.
The Chinese government has spent a lot of money on research into successful panda breeding in order to increase their birth rate.
If it is true that the Greeks forbade women to go to the play, they acted in a right way; for they would at any rate be able to hear something.
Following the demographic data, the government was obliged to adopt a policy that would stimulate birth rate.
2. honour
It is my honour to have you as a guest tonight.
It's an honour to meet you.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
It depends on the person, but using "sir" for women (a title of honour for men) is very rude.
He is what we call an honour student.
Envy is the companion of honour.
That kind of behaviour affects your honour.
Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune, and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to the king during his mayoralty.
I give you my word of honour.
be honoured, feel honoured
He was a man of honour.
The brave man was honoured by the mayor for his efforts to save people in the fire.
She will be honoured for her work in promoting friendship between the two countries.
We are here today to honour the men and women who gave their lives for their country.
Upon my honour, I never met with so many pleasant girls in my life as I have this evening; and there are several of them you see uncommonly pretty.
英語 "という言葉τιμή"(honour)集合で発生します。
Notes 14/11/2017