Sentence examples for honorary name from inspiring English sources

She theorized that Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard was an honorary name only.

(Dr. Kazimiroff lives on as an honorary name of the street).

Officials say the process of adding an honorary name to a street has accelerated since the Sept. 11 attack.

He ordered the construction of a mausoleum for Malawi's first president, the notorious despot Hastings Banda, whose honorary name he adopted: Ngwazi ("the conqueror").

There is a deafening fight in the city of Corioles, which is where Caius Martius acquires his honorary name, and confronts Aufidius Gerard Butlerr), his opposite number in the Volscian ranks — "a lion that I am proud to hunt".

C. 300 BCE Zhao, China c. 230 BCE Lanling, China Xunzi, Wade-Giles romanization Hsün-tzu, also spelled Hsün-tze, original name Xun Kuang, honorary name Xun Qing (born c. 300, Zhao kingdom, China died c. 230 bce, Lanling, Chu kingdom, China) philosopher who was one of the three great Confucian philosophers of the classical period in China.

The athletic field and an endowed chair have been stripped of their honorary names.

Two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut are scheduled to ride the Yuri Gagarin rocket into orbit, on their way to the International Space Station; the honorary naming was a departure from the usual Russian practice of numbering rockets.

Dr. Evans noted that celebrities -- especially movie stars and singers -- provided the vast majority of unusual names assumed by others, though emergency personnel who deliver or rescue babies are sometimes thanked with an honorary naming.

The neighborhood has that once-removed sense of a museum, with streets bearing honorary names of famous writers (Mr. Ferlinghetti has one) and the California Historical Society offering walking tours.

Even if my husband and I and many others in their lives tell and show them repeatedly that women produce works just as valuable as those produced by men, from the photos that adorn the hallways of their institutions to the honorary names of streets and awards, they will receive messages that are likely to produce a subconscious bias.