Awarding the BEM would seek to defuse the row over new rules designed to limit the number of honours available, which require recipients to "give back" to their sport and community.
Extolled by leading grovellers as one of the finest honours available to humankind, or half of it, the OM was founded in 1902, it says on the royal website, by the gross libertine, Edward VII, who set the number of beneficiaries, for reasons too royal to bother with, to 24 at any time.
Cavendish's courage returns Tour to rightful place in hearts Something truly remarkable was achieved by the 2011 Tour de France, which on Sunday night was celebrated in Paris with more than a faint echo of the glory which used to accompany such a man as Eddy Merckx, the Cannibal, dining with whom used to be considered one of the greatest honours available to the King of the Belgians.
The only honours available at that time were hereditary (not life) peerages and baronetcies, knighthoods and the Order of the Garter (or the Order of the Thistle for Scots), none of which were awarded in large numbers (the Garter and the Thistle are limited to 24 and 16 living members respectively).
Abbott awarded five titles in the brief time that the honours were available.
SF Said's new book Phoenix, which has been chosen to represent the UK on IBBY's 2016 Honour List, is available to buy at the Guardian bookshop.
Kaká finished eighth and seventh, respectively, in balloting for FIFA Player of the Year in 2005 and 2006 before winning almost every available honour in 2007, when he was named both European Player of the Year and FIFA World Player of the Year.
Professor of Poetry at Oxford University, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard, Emerson Poet in Residence, also at Harvard, Duff Cooper Memorial Award, American-Irish Foundation Award, Member of Aosdana and the Royal Irish Academy; few available honours, national or international, passed him by.
Thereby, it enables explicit quantification of the physical transport process through preferential flow paths, honouring all independently available experimental information.
That was an era when the European Cup, in its simple, taut format, made fewer demands and Bob Paisley's side did not necessarily have to write off any of the available honours.
