How To Use Honorary In A Sentence

The other honour that gave him particular pleasure was his honorary doctorate from Melbourne University.
A brief program with music and merriment begins the ceremony, then an honorary candlelighter lights his or her candle and starts passing it along through the crowd. Zanesvilletimesrecorder.com - Local News
The university is expected to confer the honorary degree on her at the university's graduation ceremony in December.
She received an honorary doctorate from Oxford University in recognition of her work for the homeless.
With all the godsons and honorary nieces and nephews I have, it should be enough.

He received dozens of honorary degrees and awards. Times, Sunday Times
He was given the title of honorary physician to the Queen in 1967 for his public health work in Lancashire and for advising the Ministry of Health.
In recognition of his outstanding service, Berndt Schultz was made honorary chairman.
She is being made an honorary canon in recognition of her hospital work and will take over as rural dean of South Craven in February.
Hers is among 21 honorary awards being conferred this year at Sheffield Hallam University's graduation ceremonies.
A leading layman in the Presbyterian Church, he held for years the post of honorary director of the Union Theological Seminary.
An honorary degree was conferred on him by Oxford University in 1995.
ASU has also been unable to produce any documentation of any policy related to sitting politicians and the conferment of honorary degrees. Dawn Teo: ASU Honorary Degree Policy For Sitting Politicians Not Documented
It was a great honor; she would serve with Commander Richard Byrd, honorary president.
He will retain the honorary title of non-executive chairman.
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The man who led Russia through the most difficult days of his country's shift to democracy, will also be conferred with an honorary degree during his two-day trip.
His honorary club membership runs out next spring. Times, Sunday Times
We've totted up a few but which songs do you think deserve honorary number one status?
He was going up to be made an honorary doctor, and made me come with him. The Daisy Chain
Honorary degrees are handed out to a select few .
The gobblers will be honorary grand marshals at Disneyland's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
She retired from politics in 1989 with 28 honorary doctorates and two nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize.
He was proud to be listed as one of the Abbey's honorary life members. Times, Sunday Times
Along with seven other honorands Marina will be awarded her honorary degree at the University's annual honorary degree ceremony, on Wednesday 21 June.
Wallin, who has already received four honorary degrees and several awards and honours in acknowledgment of her work, will address graduates in applied health sciences and arts.
An Orkney woman has been made an honorary Cree Indian, after visiting distant relatives on a reserve in Canada recently.
He is the recipient of the 1995/6 Wolf Foundation Prize for Music and an Honorary Citizen of Tel-Aviv-Yafo.
It is my honorary responsibility to receive donations, subscriptions and offerings sent to the group.
Mr Newell was educated at Shrewsbury College and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was an exhibitioner and honorary Demy.
De Benoist himself is on the Advisory Board (and Arthur R. Jensen is an "Honorary Adviser") of the neo-fascist German magazine Neue Anthropologie, whose editor, JÃ¼rgen R.eger, has condemned the "bastardizing" of races and has announced, in all seriousness, "The white giants are coming! Paris: Moses and Polytheism
‘I am delighted that we have such an impressive array of honorary graduands lined up for next year's degree ceremonies.’
He is an honorary member of the Russian-Chinese Committee of Friendship, Peace and Development; took part in many Soviet-Chinese summits and meetings of top leaders.
He was awarded several honorary degrees in recognition of this intellectual and institutional contribution.
When Hanmer retired from his duties, the club made him an honorary member, and he lunches there weekly.
In 1959 she formally retired from Wheaton College and the following year the College honoured her with the award of an honorary Doctorate of Science.
His first official honorary consultant post came in 1946 when he was appointed to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.
Did you practice waving the green flag as the honorary starter for the Pennsylvania 500 at Pocono Raceway.
All you need to do now is work fluoridization into it, and you will get your honorary tinfoil hat in the mail. Propeller Most Popular Stories
She was awarded Honorary Doctor Degree of Canadian McMaster University in 1990.
Visiting Victoria in Canada to collect an honorary degree, Emile visits his niece and grand-niece and is forced to come to terms with his troubled past, hoping to seek redemption from a family he abandoned.
That picture almost makes me want to turn in or burn my own earned doctorate sash, unless there is a dishonorary Doctorate of Inhumanities that I was not aware of. Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 17, 2007
The middle thane was feudal, but not honorary; he was also called a vavasor, and his lands a vavasory, which held of some mesne lord, and not immediately of the King. The Commonwealth of Oceana
The University of Bolton has announced its first honorary fellows.
A novel that provides readers with "honorary doctoral degrees in ecclesiastical history," describes Jesus as a sexual hedonist, and claims the Catholic Church is built on lies. Is TDVC "just a novel"? No way, says the Chicago Tribune
He received dozens of honorary degrees and awards. Times, Sunday Times
The honorary degree will be conferred during commencement weekend this May.
One of the anonymice has pointed out that the Cato Institute is joining in on its new petition to President Obama, awarding a dishonorary PhD. to our old friend Dipl. Rabett Run
Without formal university education, he has received numerous awards and honorary degrees. Christianity Today
The university conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.
There is a faint trace of a smile, but he does not flinch: whatever the honorary boyo's faults, he is unlikely to be bought with a knighthood.
Wallin, who has already received four honorary degrees and several awards and honours in acknowledgment of her work, will address graduates in applied health sciences and arts.
The office of school captain was introduced in 1916 and was originally held by boys only. The school captains of 1915 were honorary.
When she retired, the university named her honorary professor emerita.
He was honorary consultant to the army and to St Thomas's Hospital.
When I give a fellow an honorary doctor of divinity, it's just a little piece of paper.
The other week, I made them honorary members of his nursing staff, because he always manages to eat that little bit more than usual when the twins play Mummy with him and spoon-feed him soups or porridge.
Alan Jones is Dean of Grace Episcopal Cathedral in San Francisco and an honorary canon of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres.
He can be an honorary member,' she said. Times, Sunday Times
She was appointed lecturer and honorary consultant physician at the Hammersmith Hospital and Postgraduate Medical School when she was still only 30.
In our day the sees to which was annexed such privilege have no longer any extraordinary jurisdiction, though some enjoy an honorary distinction; the Archbishop of Salzburg, for example, may wear the cardinalatial purple, even in Rome. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
Charities often have a well-known person as their honorary treasurer.
His chief love was fishing, and although he gave up active angling when he was about 80 he remained an honorary member of Keighley Angling Club.
She was a council member and honorary secretary of the Scottish Radiological Society.
He is now an honorary member of our company. The Sun
BARCELONA: Former Holland and Barcelona great Johan Cruyff (above) was on Friday named honorary president of the Spanish and European champions, a club spokesman said. Nst online
Thirteen universities awarded him honorary doctor of science degrees. Times, Sunday Times
Football legend Jack Charlton declared himself ‘delighted’ to be back in Leeds as he collected an honorary degree yesterday.
The university conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.
The Prime Minister has just announced establishment of six new Honorary Consulates in Indonesia, namely, Ambon, Balikpapan, Kupang, Medan, Surabaya and Ujung Pandang. Government Response to Senate Consular Services Report
In 1993, the University of Natal conferred an honorary doctorate on him for his services to environmental conservation.
The university has done me the signal honour of making me an Honorary Fellow.
His acceptance of an honorary degree from the anti-Catholic Bob Jones University in 1999 continues to stir controversy.
Lou Gerstner, high panjandrum at IBM, has been awarded an honorary knighthood in the Queen's latest birthday honours list.
He was awarded five honorary doctorates by universities, two in the US and three in Britain.
six honorary were conferred; the conferees were...
The presidency is an honorary position and rotates annually.
I recommend that these few personages be accorded the honorary status of ‘Recognized-Friends-of-the-Committee’ as they wander the rest of their days in the void of this empty world.
He was subsequently invited to become the country's honorary consul in Sheffield, where there is a large Polish community.
An honorary colonel, he often accompanied cadets on training camps, and was chairman of their military education committee. Times, Sunday Times
Despite a long list of honorary titles she has remained far from grand.
Here his interest in sports medicine started and in 1965 he became honorary medical officer to Cardiff City Football Club.
Mysore University had conferred an honorary doctorate on him.
Sol is honorary consul for Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland.
She is being made an honorary canon in recognition of her hospital work and will take over as rural dean of South Craven in February.
Honorary knighthoods for foreign citizens are occasionally presented at investitures at the Palace.
As the office of referendary was a very honourable one, it came to be conferred frequently as a merely honorary title, so that the number of the referendaries was unduly increased; and Sixtus V was constrained, in 1586, to limit the referendaries of the Signatura of Justice to 100, and those of the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
His first official honorary consultant post came in 1946 when he was appointed to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.
Mr. Reidy said: ‘The Honorary Secretary has to do the normal bookwork with any small business.’
Such ploys are also used by male misandrists who trash their own gender in order to be born again as "honorary women".
The honorary recorder of York, Judge Paul Hoffman, jailed the axeman for seven years in December.
Booker was recognized for her work as honorary consul and her efforts at promoting Australian Aboriginal art.
Pat O'Toole, an honorary life member of Tullow Show Society, remarked that the vandalism didn't appear to be the work of youths as a concerted effort seemed to have gone into the removal of the posters.
Sir Michael Bichard, who was chairman of Bradford's Capital of Culture executive board, spoke as he was in the city to collect an honorary degree from the university for his work on the bid.
As a result of all his services to Australian philosophy he was made an honorary fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
His role as an honorary academic made him an excellent commentator on his own work in interviews and at colloquia. Times, Sunday Times
Professor Sir Harry Kroto, Nobel Laureate and honorary fellow of the university, will lead the congratulations in a keynote speech.
He is the Mafia's honorary president: entitled to advise and consult but not to give orders.
The actor, who is part Italian, was due to be granted honorary citizenship this week.
An honorary Dec you were, and an honorary Dec you shall remain. MUSIC FOR BOYS
Forget the honorary knighthood, you know you're famous when the French coin a Franglais soubriquet for you. Dom Ghosn Dom Ghosn
Also at the CAC, ubiquitous HuffPost big man on campus Harry Shearer, an honorary native New Orleanian if e'er there were one, has installed a nine-monitor presentation, called The Silent Echo Chamber (thru June 6), of his ongoing "found objects" captures - political and media figures seen not on the air, but just before, as they prepare themselves for broadcast. Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Apres le Deluge, Moi
Your much loved dog, a treasured pet and honorary member of the family dies. Times, Sunday Times
I accept the sneer with pleasure, as I would an honorary degree in roach control from the University of … well, Ockham. April « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
The Orchestral; Gala will be performed by artists from Concordia Foundation, of which the Lady Mayoress is an Honorary Patron.
Like all municipal corporations, up to an advanced period of the Roman empire, they issued honorary decrees, [11] voted resolutions, which had the force of law for the community, and ordained corporal punishments, of which the hazzan was the ordinary executor. [ The Life of Jesus
He's the honorary chairman of the committee.
Professor Foster was conferred with an honorary DLit degree by Queen's University Belfast in 1998.
Maybe it's the proper term for being awarded a posthumous honorary doctorate.
He has twice visited Mecca, has 18 grandsons and is held in great respect by everyone in Barra where he is the main landlord and the honorary muezzin in the mosque.
The writer is honorary senior research fellow in sociology and modern Korea at Leeds University.
He will be joined by eight other people, ranging from academics to charity fundraisers, who will receive honorary doctorates from the university.
In a section of the programme on the club's rich heritage, Luftwaffe (air force) chief Goering is pictured sitting on the club's honorary tribune, with uniformed Nazi officers behind him.
Honorary knighthoods for foreign citizens are occasionally presented at investitures at the Palace.
And today, he was made an honorary Democrat, so congratulations.
No, the bishop has taken to wearing the robes of his honorary divinity doctorate (from London University) on public occasions and fellow bishops are beginning to snigger uncharitably.
She was made an honorary citizen of Oklahoma that year.
In recognition of his achievements, he is honorary member of about 30 clubs worldwide.
In the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists she was a member of council, a vice president, a member of the court of patrons, and an honorary fellow.
He was appointed to numerous academies and societies in Canada and abroad including Honorary Consulting Physician at three different Ontario hospitals and the Chair of Medical Research.
Two Oxford academics have been elected honorary members of the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences.
An honorary Dec you were, and an honorary Dec you shall remain. MUSIC FOR BOYS
After the conclave certain honorary distinctions and pecuniary emoluments are awarded to the conclavists.
received an unmerited honorary degree
The honorary recorder of York, Judge Paul Hoffman, gave her a two-year prison sentence suspended for two years.
Also, in honor of Statia's secret career as a bunny waitress I've made her an honorary Acerbia-girl for the time being.
From 1885, it was possible for a borough to create honorary freemen as a mark of local esteem.
Local papers carried ads announcing the appearance of “Dr. David Duke” the title thanks to a Ukrainian honorary doctorate. Inmate David Duke
She received an honorary doctorate from Oxford University in recognition of her work for the homeless.
Tony Thorpe, honorary secretary, said that it is a private members club with 150 members.
Baroness Thatcher is currently a member of the House of Lords and an honorary fellow at the Hoover Institution.
He is also an honorary member of the Bowling Association.
But that is nothing compared to the 4-page bio on her shameless web site, which bloviates at length about, among other things, her ‘honorary degree’.
There was this long story about this young woman who discovered she had cancer but all she wanted to do was play softball.… and now she was in Sydney… as an honorary batgirl for a single game.
Like all Tory leaders, she was made an honorary member. Times, Sunday Times
Renzulli says Stump was selected for an honorary degree before Crow was appointed, but the conferment of the honorary degree was delayed due to illness. Dawn Teo: ASU Honorary Degree Policy For Sitting Politicians Not Documented
He became professor of surgery and honorary consultant surgeon in Bristol in 1988.
The orations that accompany the awarding of an honorary degree are rarely sophisticated studies in personality.
Their age is an asset which still has value, because they can serve as advisers, consultants, honorary chairpersons or directors in certain institutions, even after retirement.
The actor was knighted earlier this year for public and political service - adding to his honorary degrees. The Sun
With its usual agility, the university was keen to confer honorary degrees on the Army leaders. The English Civil War: A People's History
When James Bell, the recently consecrated Bishop of Knaresborough was an honorary Canon of Ripon Cathedral he occupied the stall of St Hilda.
He was awarded several honorary degrees in recognition of this intellectual and institutional contribution.
Those who become involved will become honorary members of the Inch Polo Club and its facilities will be available to the members throughout the festival.
He is the recipient of the 1995/6 Wolf Foundation Prize for Music and an Honorary Citizen of Tel-Aviv-Yafo.
Honorary freemen can be elected by councillors to ‘persons of distinction and any persons who have rendered eminent services to the borough’ according to the Local Government Act 1972.
Thirteen universities awarded him honorary doctor of science degrees. Times, Sunday Times
Over the years, field marshals, generals, prime ministers and archbishops have been made honorary freemen of the city, although Winston Churchill did not take up the offer.
He is the Mafia's honorary president: entitled to advise and consult but not to give orders.
He is the son of its founder and honorary chairman Chung Ju Yung.
Such beliefs often stemmed from Paracelsian doctrines of spirits, through which fairies came to be elected honorary servants to magicians, and that may be how demonologists began identifying them as devils.
At the University's fall convocation on October 25, honorary degrees will be conferred on five distinguished scholars.
He was awarded several honorary degrees in recognition of this intellectual and institutional contribution.
And last night he followed in his mother 's footsteps as he was made an honorary barrister. The Sun
Coughlin then made Michael an honorary lifetime crewmember by giving him an autographed and signed team uniform shirt.
Queen's bargemaster and her forty-eight watermen -- honorary servants for many a day -- twelve carriages with her Majesty's suite, a squadron of Life Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1
The one that bears a picture of an honorary graduate.
Thirteen universities awarded him honorary doctor of science degrees. Times, Sunday Times
Today it is an honorary title and Professor Crewe will be expected to attend civic functions as an ambassador for the town.
He was a lifelong member of St. Peter's Parish and a member of the Knights of Columbus as a third degree knight and fourth degree honorary knight.
Every one, from the president to the long list of committee members, renders honorary service.
A native of Fredericton and a graduate in engineering from the University of New Brunswick (which recently conferred an honorary doctorate in science on him) he has spent all his working life with the Canadian General Electric Company. Putting The Atom To Work
I hereby bestow Homeless Frank an honorary doctorship in the art of truthology. YesButNoButYes: Homeless Frank on Bald Britney
He was actively involved in teaching and was an honorary senior lecturer at Birmingham.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has been installed as an Honorary Freeman of the Company.
Estonia and Scotland have strong links and, on the eve of Estonia's accession to the European Union, the country has recently appointed an honorary consul in Scotland.
In their ignorant innocence many ex-pats use that word improperly, and sometimes assume honorary titles that a person may never use themselves. Larrainza
He was one of the most distinguished beer-drinkers in the Schwaben Corps, of which he had been elected, by acclaim, honorary member, after emptying a "Pope" on the challenge of one of the most ventripotent members.
Mr Prodi will be conferred with an honorary doctorate at a special ceremony in the University of Limerick in the afternoon.
He refused to accept honorary degrees but he did accept honorary membership of academies and learned societies.
This week Glasgow Caledonian University is making him an Honorary Doctor of Letters.
Her accomplishments have led twenty-three universities to confer on her honorary doctorate degrees.
Villa -- a nondrinker despite his freewheeling sexual exploits -- called Huerta el borrachito ( "the little drunkard") while Huerta caustically referred to Villa as "the honorary general. The Mexican Revolution: a nation in flux - part 1 (1910-20)
All hawk moths are chunky things with serious wings on them: they seem more like honorary birds than insects. Times, Sunday Times
He arrays himself in court dress at the palaces of kings, receives honorary degrees at Universities, and is kept before the public by the newspaper paragraphist, without wincing or pretending to dislike it. The Rise of the Democracy
She has the distinction of being one of the few people to have an honorary degree conferred on her by the university this year.
Therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Universitartus Committiartum E Pluribus Unum, I hereby confer upon you the honorary degree of ThD. Beat 360° 9/23/08
Discoursing with an honourable person [1] (whose piety I value more than his nobility and learning, though both be great) about a case of conscience concerning oath and vows, their nature and obligation; in which, for some particular reasons, he then desired more fully to be informed; I commended to him Dr. Sanderson's book "De Juramento;" which having read, with great satisfaction, he asked me, -- "If I thought the Doctor could be induced to write Cases of Conscience, if he might have an honorary pension allowed him to furnish him with books for that purpose? Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2
And she is honorary secretary of the Association of Liberal Democrat Councillors, which also tackles live issues in the area.
In York it had been found impossible to found a branch of the Royal Society, owing to the lack of a chairman and honorary secretary, although there were 150 members in the city.
It was a great honor; she would serve with Commander Richard Byrd, honorary president.
Bush, who has pushed so many boundaries these last seven years, may now also have pioneered a new phenomenon in higher education: the dishonorary degree (or, The Dis, for short). American Indigestion: Why Bush Governs From The Gut
Mr Geller, famed for his spoon-bending, has already signed up pop star Michael Jackson as an honorary director.
The Yorkshire-born baroness was one of four distinguished figures from the worlds of literature, science and politics presented with honorary degrees by university Chancellor Lord Bragg.
He commanded the unit for six years and was its honorary colonel twice.
I initiated the first honorary degree and the doctoral program, we have increased the financial endowment to five times, and I have to thank my colleagues all of whom have worked hard with me.
He was also appointed honorary lecturer in clinical medicine.
The post of treasurer is a purely honorary position.
The town council not only approved significant alterations to both residences but also voted to make him an honorary citizen. Times, Sunday Times
This latest group is merely a rebranding (or further classification) of people devoted to the sole purpose of defeating that guy who rightfully won a Democratic presidential election; a loose confederacy of street level strategists who are experts in the fields of clotheslining, kneecapping, smokescreening and all-out denying (also earning the honorary suffixation "ingers"). Steven Weber: To Er Is Human
During his visit to Ireland, Peck was conferred with an honorary doctorate in literature by the National University of Ireland in April 2000.
He received six honorary doctorates and was the honorand of five festschrift volumes celebrating his work. Times, Sunday Times
It was soon thereafter, she became an honorary auntie to the rest of us ♥ Not only do the two of them team up for THE most amazing holiday goodies, Aunt Karna is also far and away the best crafter on the planet! Aunt Karna Rocks My World « Bodhicitta
The honorary position is seen as a reward for professional eminence in the field.
All hawk moths are chunky things with serious wings on them: they seem more like honorary birds than insects. Times, Sunday Times
The club's honorary secretary Ian Gair said members were happy and relieved by the planning committee's decision, but he acknowledged there were still hurdles to clear.
After today's race Tergat is off to America to collect an honorary degree from a New York university.
The middle thane was feudal, but not honorary; he was also called a vavasor, and his lands a vavasory, which held of some mesne lord, and not immediately of the King. The Commonwealth of Oceana
Rudin has received many honours for her work, including at least four honorary doctorates, and will continue to receive further awards.
On retirement he worked assiduously as honorary consultant in chemotherapy and cancer care at the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary.

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