Sentence examples for committee honoured from inspiring English sources

The Nobel committee honoured him for the "discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property rights for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy".

Beijing was furious when the Nobel committee honoured the jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo and Associated Press reported this summer that Norway's salmon exports to China had plummeted.

The three recipients are the first women to be awarded the prize since 2004, when the committee honoured Wangari Muta Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist who died last month.

They are the first women to be awarded the prize since 2004 when the committee honoured Wangari Muta Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist who died last month, and bring the tally of female winners to 15, compared with 85 men.

Speaking on a purely personal level I'd have preferred to see the committee honour the actions of a small number of courageous individuals for many years of effort, for example the Tiananmen mothers or the Asociación Madres de Plaza de Mayo (see my comments near the start of this blog).

The Nobel committee never honoured Greene or Borges, two authors who are still widely read, while Asturias's titles are more scarce.

So what possessed the Nobel committee to honour a subject that sounds so thoroughly dismal?

Handelsblatt, the German economic daily is reporting in an article under the headline 'Why giving the award to the EU" that Geir Lundestadt, the permanent secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee recently said in an interview that the failure of the committee to honour both Mahatma Ghandi and the EU were its "biggest failures".

"The sports honours committee can't just give out 20 knighthoods or 20 dames.

For a start, I now sit on the sport honours committee and so am part of the decision making process itself, and have been for the past three years.

Sir John Collins, a former chairman of Dixons who headed the Whitehall honours committee that proposed Green's ennoblement, has also said the tycoon should be stripped of the honour if his handling of BHS is found to have lacked integrity.