As Mr Ahamed explains, its staff treat their unpopularity in some parts of the world "almost as a badge of honour, seeing themselves as economic doctors willing to prescribe harsh but necessary medicine".
"She entered the room and I think she was honoured to see all the school children, thousands of children, who'd come especially to see her today.
In Las Meninas ("The Maids of Honour"; see photograph), also known as The Royal Family, he has created the effect of a momentary glance at a casual scene in the artist's studio while he is painting the king and queen whose reflection only is seen in the mirror in the background in the presence of the Infanta Margarita with her meninas and other attendants.
It started with a lap of honour that saw him stop to bump fists with everyone and anyone in the front row of the crowd who was wearing Jamaican kit, the masses reaching out to grab at him like the girl in the front row of the Shea Stadium when The Beatles played in '65.
I love the vividness of Woland – his wardrobe changes, his nostalgia about the cads who have eaten at his table, and, ultimately, his strange and unerring sense of honour, which sees self-righteous citizens punished for their hypocrisy, and the cheating wife Margarita, true in her love for the Master, granted anything she wants.
Hundreds of travelling Cobblers fans donned wigs and headbands in honour of O'Toole, who saw red after 36 minutes for lashing out at Ritchie Sutton.
Zelal's pregnancy followed rape – whether by soldiers or rebels – and she is fleeing the logic of "honour" that would see her killed by her brother.
After Ferguson entered to a guard of honour, the Scot saw his side defeat Swansea thanks to a late winner from Rio Ferdinand following a Javier Hernández goal that had been cancelled out by Michu.
"And a knife is a badge of honour which they see the older kids using and therefore they think it's acceptable to do it themselves and it's getting younger and younger and that's why your amendment is so important".
Like other young Ukrainian writers, she seemed destined to be a prophet without honour, unlikely to see any of her own work performed in Ukraine itself, where the literary managers "cross themselves at the mention of new writing", as she wrote in a theatre journal last autumn.
