Sentence examples for deserving honour from inspiring English sources

A winner will be announced and the whole process will be deemed, on the one hand, a joke, a laughing stock, an embarrassment and on the other, a deserving honour for a supreme player who was the obvious choice to any right-minded individual.

Basil Tarlatzis of the International Federation of Fertility Societies, said: "This is a well deserved honour.

She was so incensed by the sacking that she launched an indefatigable campaign through lunches and contacts to ensure her husband received his "justly deserved honour".

People recognise that he's been doing a difficult job well for six years and it's a deserved honour". Elsewhere in the list, the 31-man squad that won the World Cup last month is also honoured.

A message from the Irish president, Michael D Higgins, said it was a well deserved honour that "recognises the distinguished contribution that John has made to the world of journalism – and to society at large".

Haider, whose father had been a leading member of the Austrian Nazi Party before and during World War II, became notorious for his praise of Hitler's employment policies and his remark, made to a group of Austrian veterans of World War II, that the Waffen-SS deserved "honour and respect".

Professor Basil Tarlatzis, past-president of the International Federation of Fertility Societies, said: "This is a well deserved honour.

Chairman Chris Grand added: "My sincere congratulations to Wayne on this fully deserved honour.

Therefore it is a well deserved honour that he was successfully elected to sit on the Committee on the Rights of the Child, based in Geneva.

And just as members of the public can write in to nominate people who deserve honours, we should be able to suggest the names of those who ought to lose their gongs.

Peter Shilton, who with 125 caps is the only player to have represented England more times than Rooney, and the former captain Alan Shearer both agreed that Rooney's achievements deserve honouring – but that should not extend to him playing in the match.