Sentence examples for got honour from inspiring English sources

In A Bic for Her, Christie pretends she's being heckled by a member of the audience ("What's that? Why are you talking about pens when you've got honour killings and sex trafficking and domestic violence and female genital mutilation?").

His descendant Winston Churchill did the same in 1945: he got honours, and a few million in book royalties.

His other pledges may take a long time to get honoured.

"If you remember, at the start of the year there was confusion over whether the Olympians and Paralympians would get honours; the committee said it was unlikely.

Star professors palm their pupils off on graduate students and then give them top grades to keep them happy (one survey found that 91% of Harvard graduates get honours compared with just 51% at Yale).

People I know kept looking at me saying "You look very posh, Sarah!", sounding really surprised... to which the only obvious response I could muster was a very indignant and wounded: "But I am posh!" Those of us getting honoured were allowed to bring three guests each with us, so I took my husband, Steve... obviously.

Typically, people get honours for their charity work, and I've never even agreed with that, since it tends to mean donations, which tend to proceed from wealth, and all it does is lock down and make flesh the fallacy that rich people are more honourable than everyone else.

But who decides who gets honours, and how does the whole system work?

Several MPs who lost their jobs in David Cameron's cabinet reshuffle are to get honours, it has been announced.

Mr Livingstone, 67, said the accolade would have been for services to the Olympics but he did not believe politicians should get honours.

Revealing that until now he had only told his wife, he said: "I was offered a CBE but I don't believe politicians should get honours.