Sentence examples for receiving medals from inspiring English sources
He's been touring gala parties, receiving medals and accolades for his record-breaking stint in Congress.
Again and again, soldiers receiving medals of valor for Vietnam said they had simply done what was needed to keep themselves and their buddies alive.
Those who lie about military service or about receiving medals with the intent of benefiting from those claims would be committing a crime under legislation passed by the House on Thursday.
The universities that contribute the most to America's economic future will be those whose faculties are focused not on receiving medals in Stockholm, but on teaching their students how to turn an idea into a patent, a patent into a product and those products into profits.
Receiving medals for humanities, the two Latinos joined philosopher and novelist Kwame Anthony Appiah; poet John Ashbery; author Robert Darnton, author; social critic and professor Andrew Delbanco; pianist Charles Rosen; and economist Amartya Sen.
Since advocates argue that of private contractors frequently act just as meritoriously and valorously as regular military personnel, excluding contractors from receiving medals means contractors are not seen as part of an honored class.
Some of those involved even received medals.
He has received medals but barely been home.
He also received medals from the governments of Brazil, Ecuador, Greece, Italy, Spain and Turkey.
"At Chernobyl, you know, the workers received medals," he said one evening.
