Sentence examples for earned honor from inspiring English sources

ARTS & LEISURE Becoming Andrei Sakharov "Sakharov: A Biography" traces the life of the H-bomb scientist whose advocacy of democracy in the Soviet Union earned honor abroad and exile at home.

An address by a foreign leader to Parliament was "not an automatic right" but "an earned honor," Bercow said at the time.

The oldest of seven children, Smith helped his single mother, who attended Rappahannock Community College in the day and worked at night, with household chores and earned honor roll grades in school.

But when she returned a semester later, she earned honors in all her courses.

Instead, because of a birdie from Woods, the favorites finally earned honors.

Dedicated supporters, with seven individuals newly inducted into the Amethyst Society, a group comprised of sustaining investors, also earned honors.

Of the students who took the course, 26% earned highest honors and only 9% earned honors; conversely, of those who did not take the course, only 9% earned highest honors and 28% earned honors.

"Elk hunting is a place to earn honor through effort.

In fact, rigor is one of his favorite words, along with earn, honor and luck.

The purpose of these contests was to "earn honor for the country".

But he did not act to earn honor.