Sentence examples for lesser honor from inspiring English sources

He had the lesser honor of elevating Pan paniscus to the status of full species, in 1933.

He made available massive loans at favorable interest rates to plantation owners and lavishly granted titles and lesser honors to curry favor with influential political figures who had become disaffected.

The government extended massive loans at favorable interest rates to plantation owners and lavishly granted titles and lesser honors to curry favor with influential political figures who had become disaffected.

But that would be a lesser dignity honoring a greater, so it is said: honor is best bestowed by peers.

Cotton Mather wrote of Leverett that he was "one to whom the affections of the freemen were signalised his quick advances through the lesser stages of honor and office, unto the highest in the country; and one whose courage had been as much recommended by martial actions abroad in his younger years, as his wisdom and justice were now at home in his elder".

Decades later, after the policy was changed to award the medal to the dead, Lieutenant Cushing's name simply did not come up, even though politically connected soldiers of lesser heroism were honored.

All you have to do is honor these lesser selves and then you move on.

Birthdays are unique for the person of honor, but lesser holidays like Mother's and Father's day fall in a weird in-between area.

In 1998 he helped coordinate a retrospective of Ms. Rothschild's works at the Metropolitan, a rare honor for a lesser-known artist.

As in many other Arab countries, even if the killer is convicted on the lesser charge of a "crime of honor," he is usually set free within months.

But for every iconic American honored, there are also lesser known figures, each with a claim to historical significance and a memorial.