Sentence examples for honoured man from inspiring English sources

"I've done myself no harm scoring the volume of runs I have this year, so if it is me in the West Indies who plays I'll be a very proud and honoured man to put on that shirt.

The problem here is that we just don't have a word for the husbands of honoured men and women.

The magic of Cheltenham, though, is that it retains the time-honoured man-to-man combat and in wedges of cash and credit markers no longer seen on European racecourses outside the Cotswolds in March and Galway in August.

It was an ironic and lapidary statement by a man so honoured and esteemed both at "home" and abroad.

The event, on Saturday night, was attended by a very impressive group of Hollywood grandees, and also honoured director Peter Weir, the man behind The Truman Show.

While this has led many researchers to emphasize hegemonic masculinity as a cultural ideal, where the focus is placed on documenting the various ways of 'being a man', little research has been conducted on unpacking the interactional processes through which the most honoured way to be a man is locally constituted (5).

Whereas once he looked reasonably sure of an honoured place in history as the man who led Russia from dictatorship into democracy, history seems lately to have been sizing him up for a much less attractive role: as the man who caused democracy to fail in Russia through his own arrogance and incompetence.The trouble with Mr Yeltsin . . .

"Honour" killings – whereby a man kills his wife, sister, daughter or even mother for "transgressive" behaviour (anything from falling in love to laughing loudly in public) that he feels brings shame to him or his family – are considered a time-honoured custom.