Sentence examples for due honour from inspiring English sources

With due honour to one of Humphrey Bogart's many great lines from Casablanca: "Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow but soon".

In some contexts, the word "Jew" seems to have been used almost as a generic term for one who failed to give due honour to Jesus Christ and his mother.

With the greatest respect and all due honour to the best and the most courageous of his two-legged rivals, who could not say as we headed out of this old and often disillusioning year that nothing had made the blood run quite like it did at the summons of Kauto Star yesterday?

Its construction is one reason why, last year, most of the New York-based Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) agreed to unite with the Patriarchate of Moscow, which "White" anticommunist exiles long saw as tainted by red links.As one condition for reunion, ROCOR had insisted that due honour be shown to the so-called "new martyrs" who died for their faith under the Soviet regime.

When Caesar gave orders that the statues in honour of Pompey, which had been thrown down, should be restored, Cicero44 said to him, "You have restored Pompey's statues, but you have made your own secure". Wherefore there must be no scanting of commendation or due honour in the case of an enemy who has justly gained a fair repute.

The statue was also credited with being a sorcerer who would help those who approached her with dignity but would avenge herself on those who neglected to treat her with due honour.

Alexander sent his body for burial with due honours in the royal tombs at Persepolis.

For an oracle had commanded the Athenians to bring home his ashes, and pay him all due honours as a hero; but hitherto they had not been able to learn where he was interred, as the people of Scyros dissembled the knowledge of it, and were not willing to allow a search.

The convention's chair, John Hicks, said that Pratchett would still be answering some questions from fans on video, that his business manager Rob Wilkins would be "bringing The Black Hat" – Pratchett's trademark – "to the Convention to represent Terry in absentia and we will, of course, welcome it with all due honours".

Given a rush job to write Atyeo's obituary in 1993, I was astonished to find no biography to crib from - but now John Hudson and Tom Hopegood have made amends and well and warmly done the Wessex folk-hero due honours with a fully rounded, expertly told tale of a luminary of football's fond, primeval 1950s (Atyeo, Redcliffe Press, Bristol, £17.50).

At Troy he visited the tombs of the heroes Achilles and Ajax, paying them due religious honour; this was an early and emphatic statement that he saw himself and his expedition in epic, Homeric terms.