Sentence examples for gained honorary from inspiring English sources

Nine teams were part of the original league, which gained honorary FIFA membership in 2007.

He became the first GAA star to gain an honorary doctorate from the University of Ulster, and was also voted BBC Northern Ireland Sports Personality of the Year, a regional award of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

Two years later, in 1976, Matt Meselson came to The University of Chicago to gain an honorary doctorate and I heard him give the most wonderful talk on the heat shock response in Drosophila.

The cafe, which offered family-style dinners, soon gained a large clientele; and in 1935 Sanders received his honorary colonel's title from the governor of Kentucky.

After Stackhouse spent a couple of years under Boston's membership, she gained the attention of Canongate's owner, Joe Guerra, who gave Ken and Sharon Stackhouse honorary membership.

The Society has gained significant fame at the University of Cambridge and claims Her Majesty the Queen as an honorary member.

Mayo served as the honorary medical officer of the association until her death in 1967, by which time the organisation gained a training school for maternal nurses and a hospital.

He retained the honorary title of inspector general of the realm until 1975, when he was forced to flee to France after the Pathet Lao gained full control of Laos.

Soon, Diana of Themyscira will gain a new real-world title: U.N. honorary ambassador for the empowerment of women and girls. .

In the winter of 1855 his governmental connections as the founder (1853) and first honorary secretary of the Royal Photographic Society helped him gain an appointment as official photographer of the Crimean War.

BBC Sport understands that at Friday's UCI management committee hearing there was an attempt by more than one member to force honorary president Hein Verbruggen to resign, but it did not gain enough support and failed.