Sentence examples for earned the honour from inspiring English sources
But in becoming the most decorated sailor in Olympic history Ben has earned the honour of leading our delegation into the closing ceremony of these extraordinary Games.
It made the 21-year-old the youngest player to captain a side in the Premier League this season but Pochettino said Kane had earned the honour.
Murray, who has been thrust to the top of the mountain against most expectations but who has earned the honour in the course of an unbeaten run of 19 matches, made his prediction with a sense of regret rather than celebration.
"But in becoming the most decorated sailor in Olympic history, Ben has earned the honour of leading our delegation into the closing ceremony of these extraordinary Games.
The great dane, who frequently followed sailors on the train during the 1940s, earned the honour after railway officials threatened to put him down if his fare was not paid.
Sinfield also paid tribute to two-try winger Ryan Hall, whose remarkable strength saw him grab the brace that won him the Lance Todd Trophy - Leeds' first winner of the famous man-of-the-match award since Sinfield himself earned the honour in a losing side against Hull in 2005.
We can do better, though … "Third-level Lechia Gdansk beat second-level Piast Gliwice 2-1 in the 1982-83 Polish Cup final to earn the honour of a 10-2 aggregate shoeing from Juventus in the 1983-84 Cup Winners' Cup.
England went out at the quarter-final stage but he was named in the tournament's all-star squad, the only Englishman to earn the honour.
He edged Shaquille O'Neal to win the NBA MVP award, becoming the first Canadian to earn the honour, as well as the third point guard ever to be named MVP, along with Magic Johnson and Bob Cousy.
THE BBC's broadcast last week of "Jerry Springer The Opera" earned the dubious honour of being the most complained-about event in British broadcasting history.
SSCS even earned the dubious honour of being parodied in the US animated comedy South Park in an episode entitled Whale Whores, where its activists were depicted as "vegan pussies" posing as pirates and Watson got a harpoon through the head.
