Sentence examples for posthumous honor from inspiring English sources

Having conquered other countries, it has started creeping up the Billboard charts and it may yet provide Ms. Saad with a fitting posthumous honor: an American pop hit.

(Reuters) BULGARIA: POSTHUMOUS HONOR -- Georgy Markov, a Bulgarian emigre writer assassinated in London in 1978 by a Communist agent who jabbed a poisoned umbrella into his leg, was posthumously decorated by Bulgaria for opposition to the Communists.

It also happens that Stephen Sondheim, who wrote the lyrics for "Gypsy," will receive a lifetime achievement award, while a special posthumous honor will go to Robert Russell Bennett for his orchestrations, including those for "South Pacific" in 1949.

If for some reason any of the other actors win, they'll be viewed as that A-hole who deprived Heath of the posthumous honor.

On Thursday, they announced that Mr. Guo's posthumous honors had been rescinded.

However, in 1506 he was exonerated and given posthumous honors by the Joseon court.

Zhang received many posthumous honors for his scholarship and ingenuity; some modern scholars have compared his work in astronomy to that of the Greco-Roman Ptolemy (AD 86 161).

However, he was exonerated after death and given posthumous honors by the Joseon court in 1506 with the demotion and exile of Yeonsangun and the raising of his half-brother Jungjong (r. 1506 1544) to the throne.

"Bewilderment," by David Ferry: Ferry is eighty-eight; when he won the National Book Award for this book, he called it a "preposterous pre-posthumous" honor.

The critics group approved a special posthumous award to honor the legacy of William Becker and Janus Films.

A posthumous award will be made in honor of Dr. Betty Shabazz of Mount Vernon, the widow of Malcolm X and the director of institutional advancement and public affairs at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York.