Sentence examples for meritorious achievement from inspiring English sources

The Purple Heart is awarded to soldiers wounded in combat, and the Bronze Star for heroic or meritorious achievement.

By the end of World War II, he was a colonel and had won the Silver Star for gallantry and two Bronze Stars for meritorious achievement.

By the time he returned to Chicago a year later, sporting a Bronze Star for meritorious achievement, he says he had undergone a transformation.

Dr. Grandin has received numerous awards including the Meritorious Achievement Award from the Livestock Conservation Institute; she was named a Distinguished Alumni at Franklin Pierce College, and received honorary doctorates from McGill University, the University of Illinois, and Duke University.

If the tournament also proves to favour the brave, the Merseysiders may well sweep into the last four at Anfield this evening - a highly meritorious achievement, but one unlikely to send shudders of apprehension through those clubs currently pre-eminent in the European pecking order.

Each Secretary of a military department shall carry out a program to provide for the award of one or more medals or other commendations to handlers of military working dogs under the jurisdiction of such Secretary to recognize valor or meritorious achievement by such handlers and dogs.

This award recognizes the meritorious achievements and accomplishments of NIAID employees.

Based on her meritorious achievements in cancer research both during training in the United States and after returning to China, Dr. Cheng was selected by National Natural Science Foundation of China as an awardee of Excellent Young Scholar Program, General Program and Young Scientist Program.

Major awards and honors he received include: Honorary Member of Ethiopian Soil Science Society, Swiss Trans-disciplinarity Award, and Recognition by the American Biographical Institute, Professorship from Haramaya University and Certificate of Recognition and Gold Medal Award for Meritorious Achievements in Agricultural Research.

But the Army has made more awards for meritorious service and achievement in noncombat situations so far this year than in all of 1968, the war's blood iest period.

Roughead's awards include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Navy Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, and various unit and service awards.