Sentence examples for honoured for doing from inspiring English sources

These women - waitresses, cleaners, shop assistants - Hardwick honoured for doing the world's work, usually without much in return from their menfolk.

Decades later, having won an Oscar for best supporting actor as Dudley Moore's scabrous butler in Arthur, he commented that he was being honoured for doing duty as 'an athletic supporter'.

No business leaders or senior civil servants should be honoured for merely "doing the day job", said the committee, which recommends an independent honours commission to restore credibility.

Instead plenty of people are honoured simply for doing private sector jobs that are already rewarding them very nicely.

There's a strong argument that anybody who was even vaguely involved with Blurred Lines, let alone its chief architect, should never be honoured for anything they do in music ever again; that you could drop a genre-blitzing all-time classic, melding The White Album with Enter The Wu Tang and still be dismissed with a simple, "Yeah, but … Robin Thicke".

To have the country honour men for doing what they did at a time when difficult personal decisions made their actions worthwhile for the overall good meant the same thing for all citizens.

But both are still mainly remembered, and honoured, for a partnership which did so much to limit the power of the Nazi aggression.

Though highly honoured for his artistic accomplishments, Rodin did not spawn a significant, lasting school of followers.

The trick was to ask them to compete for the honour of doing something that, a few years earlier, none of them would have been remotely interested in.

It's an honour really, to be noticed for doing something right in my life".

Berry was widely honoured for her work.