Sentence examples for highest honours from inspiring English sources

Last year he was awarded one of Russia's highest honours, the state prize.

I don't just mean that I graduated from Harvard and Yale Law school with highest honours.

He was awarded one of Germany's highest honours, the Federal Cross of Merit, in 1994.

Wole Soyinka is worth the highest honours Oxford could bestow on him.

It is considered one of the highest honours among awards in the arts.

In 2012 he was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry, one of country music's highest honours.

In 2003 he received one of Japan's highest honours, the Person of Cultural Merit award.

The book won the highest honours at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1855.

Indeed, it was shortlisted for one of France's highest honours, the Prix Goncourt.

"It seems inappropriate that she's now being invited to Buckingham Palace to pick up one of the highest honours.

Sarabhai was awarded two of India's highest honours, the Padma Bhushan (1966) and the Padma Vibhushan (awarded posthumously in 1972).