Sentence examples for few honors from inspiring English sources

View Photo Gallery —Few honors rival that of being invited to dine at the White House.

Now he will reach for one of the few honors that has eluded him: an N.C.A.A. bid.

One of the few honors still to elude the dynamic Mrs. King is, oddly enough, the championship of her own country.

Some professors have expressed concerns that minority students may not be well represented in a university-wide honors program and that extra money spent on a few honors students means less money for everyone else.

He accepted a few honors as he departed and then retreated into isolation in his apartment not far from the campus, visiting the school rarely and only by invitation.

Aristotle has already made it clear in his discussion of the ethical virtues that someone who is greatly honored by his community and commands large financial resources is in a position to exercise a higher order of ethical virtue than is someone who receives few honors and has little property.

But because proposals are not binding, few honor those commitments, said Stanley Gleaton, chairman of Community Board 10 in Harlem.

The UN estimates that over 5,000 such murders occur annually -- and that number only includes the few honor killings that officials ever find out about.

Moreover, although they don't differ from men on performance measures such as productivity, women faculty are usually paid less, promoted more slowly, receive fewer honors, and hold fewer leadership positions than men, the report states.

Thus even a record with no or few High Honors or Honors grades may conceal considerable academic distinction.

— Short of a Nobel Prize, there are few scientific honors that the biologist Susan L. Lindquist has not won.