Sentence examples for named for someone from inspiring English sources

Except perhaps for Donald Trump, it is unusual for an organization to be named for someone who still works there.

It won a Julia Child Cookbook Award — now there's a prize named for someone who understood the importance of food in the process of self-invention.

Romer graciously cites Stigler's Law of Eponymy, which states that any scientific discovery named for someone is not in fact named for its actual discoverer.

Even if it meant living in a building named for someone else!" When Ivanka was a kid, she got frustrated because she couldn't set up a lemonade stand in Trump Tower.

But Community Board 3 voted against the proposal in April, saying in a letter to Mayor Giuliani that the park should be "named for someone or something with a direct connection to the Lower East Side".

To the Editor: "Misplaced Honor" argues that the names of forts that are named for Confederate officers should be changed so that African-American soldiers would not have "to serve at a place named for a defender of a racist slavocracy" and so that no American soldier would have to "serve at a base named for someone who killed United States Army troops".

It's tight on the first leg, 0.091 in it, and the unfortunately-named-for-someone-who's-meant-to-move-fast Chris Mazdzer is next.

Extending the theme, each of the very white and very kitsch rooms is named for something or someone in Tinseltown (Coppola, Nicholson, De Niro) with framed posters to match.

(Imagine giving an award named for Thomas Jefferson to someone who tried to limit the amount of political speech!) But the very existence of the Panetta Institute shows why that's a futile gesture.

The journalist, who has not been named, asked for "someone to fund my time" saying they were "only paid a very small sum by Forbes which doesn't stretch far".

Now, quick, name for me someone on the left with remotely the influence of Grover Norquist (of drown-the-government-in-the-bathtub fame) who advocates anything close to the converse of Norquist.