Sentence examples for honour remark from inspiring English sources
After his return he was not taken particularly seriously, and was hard put to get audiences for his new works, hence his "prophet without honour" remark after the nearly empty hall and indifferent reception of Richard III and Wallenstein's Camp at Žofín Island in January 1862.
When a guest at a British Council dinner in Germany, which was held in Phillips's honour, dropped a casually racist remark (a "joke" about his eating peanuts), he and other writers threatened to boycott the council.
But Trump, whose lead in the polls has grown after a series of inflammatory Islamophobic slurs, called the Russian president's remarks a "great honour" and described Putin as "a man highly respected within his own country and beyond".
It is an honour to make a few opening remarks on behalf of UNICEF.
"It is a huge honour to be an MP and my remarks, although meant in jest, were completely uncalled for".
After hearing that she had won the Nobel Prize, Levi-Montalcini remarked to an interviewer that the award was "a great honour".
The remarks were reportedly made at a dinner in Yorkshire in honour of the visiting president of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir on 2 April, in response to comments by an earlier speaker who urged more Muslims to enter parliament.
He is also shortlisted for the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year award – an honour quickly tainted by a toxic controversy over some of Fury's sexist and homophobic remarks.
The remarks came as the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader fasted and led prayers to honour the nine clerics or former clerics who have self-immolated in south-western China over seven months.
5th National Early Childhood Intervention Conference: ULU KINTA PERAK, 4 June 2014 Opening Remarks MS. WIVINA BELOMNTE UNICEF Representative to Malaysia Special Representative to Brunei It is an honour to be here at the 5th National Early Childhood Intervention Conference.
Shintaro Ishihara, the right-wing governor of Tokyo, remarked that cabinet minister Matsuoka was a true Samurai because he had committed suicide to preserve his honour.
