How To Use Honours In A Sentence
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There will always be debate about who deserves honours, all of it highly subjective.
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Competition is keen and candidates must offer a minimum of an upper second class honours degree together with evidence of satisfactory financial arrangements.
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Far from counting against the honours system, the latest rash of disclosures should be used to improve and reinforce it.
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He gained a first class Honours de-gree in economics.
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Your Honours, apropos of what our learned friend said about the Justice's judgment, in our submission, it highlights the error.
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Prosecutors said the committee had approved applicants who presented forged honours that carried dates pre-dating the actual creation of the vaunted title.
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Since '96, Montreal has been home to Fang, her pipa (the Chinese lute) and the stack of awards and honours she picked up in her native China.
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There was a time when rock'n'roll and the honours system were the strangest of bedfellows.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fans want efforts to be recognised She also says the honours system is unfair because she gets recognised for her work but a lollipop lady doesn't.
The Sun
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He was totally without ostentation or pretension and totally disinterested in wealth, honours or managerial power.
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She was acclaimed in the New Year's Honours List in recognition of her continued services to the tourism industry in York and Yorkshire.
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But while there were 13 firsts among men in computing and IT, only five women got a first-class honours degree in the area in 2000.
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He promoted the Virgin as its protectress, commissioning a hymn in her honour, and incurred criticism from Bruno of Querfurt for ‘favouring the Roman people above all others with money and honours'.
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We buried the general with full military honours.
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-- But then they are not charged for seeing the lamps; there is no charge for walking round the walks; there is no charge for looking at the cosmoramic pictures; there is no charge for casting a glance at the orchestra; there is no charge for staring at the other people; there is no charge for bowing or talking to an acquaintance, if you meet one -- all these are gratis; and if you neither eat nor drink, there is no charge for witnessing those who do mangle the long-murdered honours of the coop, and gulp down the most renovating of liquors, be they hale or stout, vite vine, red port, or rack punch.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 321, July 5, 1828
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Father being out, mother asked me to do the honours of the house and pour out the tea.
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I'm not a fan of the honours system, or peerages in general because very few genuinely deserve to be lifted in status.
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Honours are up for grabs in five categories - including a Top Tutor award.
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We should not limit these honours to renaming landmarks, but should come up with still more meaningful instruments, such as bursaries and other interventions that directly benefit our people.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Books and articles are now commissions and performances, and an increased emphasis is placed upon awards, recognitions and honours.
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He captained the team to win the National League in 1970 and went on to win All Star honours.
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Villa, for all their recent travails, have the infrastructure in place to challenge for honours.
Times, Sunday Times
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There will be a disco from 9 pm to midnight and a mystery guest will do the honours in presenting the medals.
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He is insatiable in the quest for honours - often putting himself through a punishing schedule.
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After two years she quit in favour of a sound engineering course in Glasgow, followed by an honours degree course in world religions.
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The pair were meeting in the final for the fifth time in six years with honours even up to yesterday.
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Why is it only ever senior officers receive honours from the queen?
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Born in Aberdeen in 1942, Sir Ian Wood graduated from Aberdeen University in 1964 with an honours degree in psychology.
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Grant Gibson from Newton St Boswells took the honours after landing an incredible 17 fish from the Melrose stretch.
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If your Honours go to paragraph 2.1, you will see that the plaintiff was injured in this case when he fell on a section of a driveway which had a gradient of 47 per cent.
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Four honours in hearts are to be preferred to any but a very strong no-trump declaration; but four aces counting 100 points constitute a no-trump declaration without exception.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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Could I invite your Honours to go to submissions on behalf of the Wentworth Shire Council and to the document annexed to it following page 11.
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The screen veteran is the biggest name on the Queen's birthday honours list, receiving a knighthood.
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The documents we have just been looking at are schedules to the partnership agreement, as, indeed, is the application form, which your Honours will find at 843.
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In the century and a half that she has stood there, poised to award that outstretched laurel crown, many women who deserve the honours have passed by uncelebrated.
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VIII, 10, and frequently) honours with the name caritas the mere love for good and any good motion of the will whatsoever.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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The Laois girls captured the honours with some degree of aplomb and assurance.
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Yates: The question Blair refused to answer in honours inquiry
Yates: The question Blair refused to answer in honours inquiry
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Your Honours will see section 61 set out at page 412 at the bottom in the footnote on the page.
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After playing the electronic keyboard for several years, he took his grade 5 exam and passed with honours.
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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.
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Three times as many honours have been awarded to sportsmen and women compared with previous years.
Times, Sunday Times
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Can I start by going to the relevant previous enactment, your Honours.
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He received a first class honours degree in accountancy and business studies.
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The honours system should be abolished in its present form and a revising chamber should be manned only by the elected.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tom has just graduated with first-class honours in psychology.
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There's no reason why he cannot go for international honours.
The Sun
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But of what they call counterfeit pleasures they make naught; as of pride in apparel and gems, or in vain honours; or of dicing; or hunting, which they deem the most abject kind of butchery.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics
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He says: 'This was an opportunity to buy into a partnership where we would not be writing a foundation or honours degree programme in isolation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Competition is keen and candidates must offer a minimum of an upper second class honours degree together with evidence of satisfactory financial arrangements.
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Her story deeply touches me, and I think she fully deserves the various titles and honours bestowed upon her.
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He graduated last year with an Aeronautical Engineering degree with first class honours after four years study.
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Murray was made a Member of the Order of Australia for his services to Association football on June 12, 2006 as part of the Queen's Birthday honours list.
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Your Honours, I will hand up a copy of exhibit 15, which is the air waybill.
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Your Honours have put to my learned friend most of what I would say under that, apart from the inutility of making an order, bearing in mind the nature of the power under section 417.
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In the build-up to this year's showcase event, all the talk had centred on who would face Australia to win the honours.
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Legal experts said that anyone offering honours for gifts could also face a corruption investigation.
Times, Sunday Times
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After half an hour's hard exercise, the dear creatures had remüé themselves into a perfect fureur, and the piece concluded by the ladies exposing that which is better felt than seen; and, in that state of nature, walked from the bottom of the theatre to the top where we were sitting on the grass, till they approached just by us, and then we complimented them in bowing, with all the honours of war.
Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791
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It may be a rare privilege to do the honours in a marriage ceremony, but invitations to the USPGA aren't exactly distributed like confetti.
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Their tradition of gallantry is typical of the Canadian Forces with their battle honours, with their thousands of dead in two world wars, and their countless awards for bravery.
Loyal Societies Dinner
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On the evidence of this performance both sides will be in the running for honours at the end of the season.
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The gadget helped earn the young inventor a first class honours degree from Brunel University.
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The academic attacker gained a first-class honours degree in economics with business management this year.
The Sun
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Melrose and Von Behrens honours crowded each other -- here was the thin old silver "shepherdess" cup awarded that Johanna von Behrens who had won a prize with her sheep, while Washington was yet a boy; and here the quaint tortoise-shell snuff-box that a great prince, homeless and unknown, had given the American family that took him in; and the silver buttons from Lafayette's waistcoat that the great Frenchman had presented Colonel Horace Murison of the "Continentals.
The Beloved Woman
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The disgrace of his first marriage might, perhaps, as there was no reason to suppose it perpetuated by offspring, have been got over, had he not done worse; but he had, as by the accustomary intervention of kind friends, they had been informed, spoken most disrespectfully of them all, most slightingly and contemptuously of the very blood he belonged to, and the honours which were hereafter to be his own.
Persuasion
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The honours system should be abolished in its present form and a revising chamber should be manned only by the elected.
Times, Sunday Times
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A well-known television personality did the honours at the official opening of the show.
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He was feted with academic honours and positions, including the directorship of a masterclass in composition in Berlin.
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We have no idea what kinds of shops are going to be in it and while it may not be a desecration, it dishonours the memory of what happened there,’ she said.
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He was made a life peer in the New Year's honours list.
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Just for the sake of completing graduation you can do ba eco but eco honours is tough as compared to BA en Español
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OH, it's easy to be cynical about the honours system.
The Sun
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He was knighted in the Queen's birthday honours list in June 1988.
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I am not arguing - I am advising your Honours as to the court's approach.
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On stage, Mr Leonsis discussed the significance of meeting on St Patrick's Day, which honours a Christian missionary who was condemned to death three times and survived regardless.
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What could I, helpless, houseless, fortuneless, be but a weight upon that buoyancy and ambition of eminence which marks superior natures for the superior honours of life.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845
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The honours arrived like a power chord at the end of a fading guitar solo and took them both by surprise.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is why our honours system is discredited and the public has no confidence in it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Underlying Mr Singh's campaign has been an implication that boys receiving awards and honours have not really been deserving of them.
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He not only has his sins pardoned, and is furnished with grace sufficient for himself, but, as rectus in curia -- acquitted in court, he is restored to his former honours and trusts.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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O'Toole's emerged with a facile victor to take the team honours, from Tinryland in second place.
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Really, your Honours, if that is what the court meant to be saying, it is directly contrary to what they have said elsewhere and what was plain on the papers.
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Their Honours go on in the next paragraph to say it is really a no evidence case and on the next page to infer error of law.
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Benjamin Braddock, who has just graduated with honours, flies back to his wealthy family in Southern California suburbia.
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It also offers honours and foundation degrees and has strong links to business and industry.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pat's are now in a strong position to challenge for league honours.
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She studied art at Edinburgh College of Art, graduating with a first class honours degree in printmaking and printed textiles.
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They are expected to recommend honours for the soldiers involved.
The Sun
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Your Honours were referred to a passage about three-quarters of the way down the page.
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These were the only honours bestowed on this legendary maestro during his lifetime.
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It was all of 21 years since the team had won the Mayo and Connacht honours and some members felt the time to hold a celebration to mark the event.
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Indeed, your Honours, it is more entrenched pursuant to section 75 than much of the jurisdiction under section 73.
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He is hoping to continue his studies and gain an honours degree in natural sciences.
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At the end of the day, your Honours, the issue was whether or not a person who is not an employee can bring proceedings for the contravention of statutory duress.
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He has a first-class honours degree in politics, philosophy and economics from Oxford.
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In his denial, he treats a people as less than fully human and totally dishonours the dead.
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For what can be more unhappy, than for a Man, devested of Senatorian Honours, to be still confin'd to Fatigue and Trouble?
Pliny's Epistles in Ten Books: Volume 1, Books 1-6
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Yet if you were opening a new pub wouldn't you love to have one of them to do the honours?
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Honours change manners.
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A side which held three of the four honours can claim 2 points for them.
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British cavalry standards and guidons are made of crimson silk embroidered with the appropriate regimental badges and insignia and battle honours.
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His knighthood is the latest of dozens of awards and honours conferred on him.
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It follows controversy over honours offered to wealthy people who gave large donations or loans to political parties.
The Sun
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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.
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The hall of fame was instituted four years ago and honours and celebrates a combination of past broadcasters and those who continue to enliven the airwaves and engage and entrance the imagination of listeners.
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The national honours are conferred on Nigerians and foreigners who have distinguished themselves in their chosen careers and service to the country.
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Yet if you were opening a new pub wouldn't you love to have one of them to do the honours?
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The honours system should be abolished in its present form and a revising chamber should be manned only by the elected.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has received many honours for his research into cancer.
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Soldiers had come from all over the country to bury the general with military honours.
Times, Sunday Times
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Scores for honours are to be claimed at the end of the play (it is assumed that the players will remember what they held).
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His business nous has earned him honours as well as profits.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are five honours, viz: - Ace, King, Queen, Knave and Ten, if trumps are declared.
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We had two huge bravery awards specially struck for the flight captain and his co-pilot to ensure they got the giant honours they deserve.
The Sun
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He received a knighthood in the New Year's Honours list.
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He who does not honour his wife, dishonours himself.
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Entrance requirement: First or Second Class Honours in mathematics, or another science with substantial mathematical content.
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The key to preparing successful nominations for honours, awards and decorations is to read and follow the guidelines provided.
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The honours system is flashy, pretentious, and kitsch.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was buried with full military honours in the graveyard of his local church.
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Nora is delighted to have been included in the Queen's New Year honours.
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Fans want efforts to be recognised She also says the honours system is unfair because she gets recognised for her work but a lollipop lady doesn't.
The Sun
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I suggest the opposite: abolish the honours system altogether.
Times, Sunday Times
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Your Honours, that completes what I wanted to say in defence of the jury's faithful discharge of its duty.
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Fuller was awarded many honours, including a fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
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Entrepreneurs who make private donations to the Prime Minister's flagship city academies can obtain honours and peerages, it was reported last night.
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The character of the team was severely tested and they came through with honours.
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He has received many honours for his research into cancer.
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Prince's Trust chief executive Tom Shebbeare received a knighthood in the Queen's personal honours list.
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He was educated at Abersychan County School and Balliol College, Oxford, coming out with a first-class honours degree in philosophy, politics and economics.
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The honours committees that decide on awards are made up of civil servants and independent experts.
The Sun
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In 2006 he was embroiled in the cash for honours scandal after being made a Labour life peer and minister for defence procurement.
Times, Sunday Times
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Eventually, the plantsman earned a National Diploma in Horticulture, winning national honours on the way.
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After two years she quit in favour of a sound engineering course in Glasgow, followed by an honours degree course in world religions.
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As a result of some good performances at the championships and the interregional competitions, several junior runners have been given international honours.
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Your Honours, the first major problem with this application is that it would result in the Court deciding an issue on unascertained facts.
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Hardened Royal Marines were reduced to tears yesterday as the funeral of Yorkshire war hero Christopher Maddison was held with full military honours.
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Can we say this as well, your Honours, that the statement of a predictive opinion, guarded or unguarded, is apt to induce more than one act of reliance.
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But, with respect, it certainly grapples with some of the difficult matters that this case raises and I bring it to your Honours' attention.
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He is a rob - ber of the vileft fpecies, who degrades humanity, and dishonours the dignity and equity of executive juftice in a free government, by a condud fo lawlefs and barbarous; who thus ihuts up the avenoea of lenity, and fteals from the poor fettler in the colony, the hard earned fruits of induftry.
The Monthly Review
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The honours arrived like a power chord at the end of a fading guitar solo and took them both by surprise.
Times, Sunday Times
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Heroes who have won the highest honours for their bravery now have a permanent memorial at Westminster Abbey.
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Lou Gerstner, high panjandrum at IBM, has been awarded an honorary knighthood in the Queen's latest birthday honours list.
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These, a helpful warden explains, belong to those who blotted their escutcheons as often as not with a royal lady with whom they should not have and were stripped of their honours.
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The honours board has almost made gold leaf extinct.
The Sun
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Of course, the honours of the defeat of the Armada must always be shared with other naval experts who had acquired their knowledge of sea warfare in what is called the piratical line.
Drake Nelson and Napoleon
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But that cup successes have already become a mere bagatelle to the midfielder points to him having a veteran's outlook to honours.
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The funeral cortège will then go onto Rochdale Cemetery where the fallen soldier will be buried with full military honours at 12.30 pm.
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You'll need a minimum 2.2 honours degree.
The Sun
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This power, exercised politically for far too long, has added to the public's contempt for the honours that are now made.
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This was revised after much pleading and she went on to gain a joint honours degree in French and Spanish last year.
Times, Sunday Times
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Game made - plus 100 for honours as this was rubber bridge.
Times, Sunday Times
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Both women resent the lack of honours bestowed on their relatives.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was a golden age for poets and panegyrists, koranists and literati, preachers and rhetoricians, physicians and scientists who, besides receiving high salaries and fabulous presents, were treated with all the honours of Chinese Mandarins; and, like these, the humblest Moslem — fisherman or artizan — could aspire through knowledge or savoir faire to the highest offices of the Empire.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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His name was put forward for inclusion in the Honours List.
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The honours arrived like a power chord at the end of a fading guitar solo and took them both by surprise.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fuller was awarded many honours, including a fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
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He is insatiable in the quest for honours - often putting himself through a punishing schedule.
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Too many honours have been bestowed on him, surely he should say enough is enough.
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I suggest the opposite: abolish the honours system altogether.
Times, Sunday Times
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My advice then is to mistrust the sonorous catch-words (13) of the sophist, and not to despise the reasoned conclusions (14) of the philosopher; for the sophist is a hunter after the rich and young, the philosopher is the common friend of all; he neither honours nor despises the fortunes of men.
The Sportsman
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After his death, however, at the age of almost 90, de Lesseps was awarded many great honours.
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This award honours the great achievements of people aged 16 or under who make a positive commitment to their local community life.
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My advice then is to mistrust the sonorous catch-words394 of the sophist, and not to despise the reasoned conclusions395 of the philosopher; for the sophist is a hunter after the rich and young, the philosopher is the common friend of all; he neither honours nor despises the fortunes of men.
On Hunting
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He collected a swathe of international honours, awards and prizes along the way, not least the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology.
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Your Honours, the pleading of this case really provides the answer to the way in which the statute, uninstructed by Justice Hodgson's reasons in Attrill, should have been applied.
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He received honours and awards from the government for his contribution to agricultural production.
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Your Honours, this is case where it is submitted the course of justice has gone awry to an extent meriting the attention of this Court.
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He won many other honours in his glittering career at club level, and of course donned the county jersey in different footballing grades countless times.
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Well, your Honours, the allegation was section 319 of the Crimes Act, perversion of the course of justice.
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You'll need a minimum 2.2 honours degree.
The Sun
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i just found out that because i'm in honours, i get to take out books for the entire semester! it's called the bennet 'bookstore' for me, today ....
Me a badass? Noooo....
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In discussing the notion St. Thomas himself confines himself to the example of the dispensation of honours.
Chesterton and Capitalism Part Two
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For those who don't know, the Honours of Scotland are the regalia or crown jewels, mostly dating from the early sixteenth century.
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Now, I have handed to your Honours the early United States case of People v Whipple.
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A religious Jew tries to bring holiness into everything they do, by doing it as an act that praises God, and honours everything God has done.
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My aim is to bring my great uncle back and have a reburial with full military honours in Agecroft Cemetery.
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The final round was a battle of nerves as the teams vied for top honours.
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The award of honours for conspicuous gallantry came rather late, with the Victoria Cross during the Crimean War.
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This, the Prime Minister's official spokesman said, reflected the continuing value that the public placed on the honours system.
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An investigation by The Sunday Times in 2003 revealed that the honours system was corrupted by spin and cronyism.
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The allegation that the Liberals were selling honours in return for political contributions was brutally clear.
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I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name.
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Sir Patrick said his knighthood – announced in the New Year Honours List – had been “an unlooked-for honour”.
Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » Patrick Stewart Knighted By Queen Elizabeth II
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Both women resent the lack of honours bestowed on their relatives.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fact is that City will not be able to challenge for any honours this season unless their foundations are more solid.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bessel's work in determining the constants of precession, nutation and aberration won him further honours, such as a prize from the Berlin Academy in 1815.
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She has published a series of books for adults and children and has won scores of honours.
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In the first place, honours and titles meed not be hereditary; in the second, they need not be conferred by the political administration; and, in the third, they are not only — as the French Legion of Honour shows — entirely compatible with, but they are a necessary complement to the
Mankind in the Making
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BoS reports that just four people in Bedfordshire were rewarded in the New Year honours list, all with MBEs.
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Hughes earned 62 caps for the national team and led Liverpool to a string of honours while at the Anfield club.
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Entrance requirement: First or Second Class Honours in mathematics, or another science with substantial mathematical content.
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For my Honours research project I had to drive to the sewage farm every morning, take a fresh sample of the aerobic pond, race back to the laboratory, liquidise it and analyse the bacterial population.
Eight things « TalentedApps
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Winemaker Bob Oatley's all-conquering Wild Oats XI, a $15 million dollar thoroughbred, seeks a fifth straight line honours victory after taking the treble of race record, line honours and hcp winner on debut in 2005 in 1 day, 18 hours and 40 minutes.
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Honours, such as knighthoods, peerages, and other decorations, are awarded on his recommendation.
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In each case the honours subject occupies the whole of the final year with a research project as a major component.
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A native of Armagh, she was educated at St Catherine's college, Armagh and gained a Honours BEd degree from St Mary's University Belfast.
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But more importantly have avoided becoming involved in honours scandal
Conventional Wisdom Index: Week 4
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I pause there, your Honours, to say, with the greatest respect to her Ladyship, that is, in fact, a very crucial observation.
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The lengthiest section was on honours and appointments.
Times, Sunday Times
