Sentence examples for receiving honorary from inspiring English sources
Also receiving honorary doctorates on the same day will be opera singer Patricia MacMahon and Jenny Sealy, a producer at the opening ceremony for the London 2012 Paralympics.
They are among five people receiving honorary degrees from Newcastle University on Monday to mark the work of the Make Poverty History campaign.
Among those receiving honorary degrees was Constance Baker Motley, the United States District Court judge who, as a civil rights lawyer, successfully argued before the Supreme Court to integrate the University of Mississippi.
Among those also receiving honorary degrees were Daniel K. Inouye, a United States senator from Hawaii; the Cable News Network's founder, Ted Turner; and Evan S. Dobelle, Trinity's departing president, who is taking over as president of the University of Hawaii.
Also receiving honorary doctorates wereBobSheppard, the announcer for the Yankees since 1951 (he was given a degree in rhetoric); Nicholas Scoppetta, commissioner of New York City's Administration for Children's Services, and Fordham alumna Susan L. Taylor, who is senior vice president of Essence Communications and the former editor in chief of Essence magazine.
College graduation ceremonies also include a bevy of politicians, movie stars and business titans, who deliver stirring commencement addresses while receiving honorary degrees.
Plenty of journalists have received honorary degrees.
Other presidents received honorary Yale degrees at different times.
For his generosity and vision, he received honorary degrees from the Berkeley Carroll School and Brooklyn College.
At a relatively young age, Tversky received honorary degrees from Yale and the University of Chicago.
He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and received honorary degrees from the University of York and Cambridge University, in England.
