Sentence examples for to provide tribute from inspiring English sources

The Song were forced to provide tribute to the Khitans, although paying this tribute did little damage to the overall Song economy since the Khitans were heavily dependent upon importing massive amounts of goods from the Song.

I was once asked to provide a tribute to Michael Powell at the Cannes film festival.

Mr. Wittek said that he tried long afterward to persuade New York City officials to provide a tribute and that a mention of the Estero had been planned for Veterans Day 2001, but was put aside in light of the World Trade Center terrorist attack.

Reinaldo Rueda's side are keen to make an impact in Brazil to provide a fitting tribute to forward Christian Benitez, who died of heart failure last summer.

"As they struggle to come to terms with their loss, they have chosen at this time not to release any images of their loved ones or to provide any words of tribute.

Byzantium became a vassal state of the Turks, pledged to pay tribute and to provide military assistance to the Ottoman sultan.

Batman and his heirs were bound by the treaty to provide an annual "rent of tribute" of similar items.

(GP: I asked Kim to provide a note on a tribute made by DC fans to one of their own this week) Javier Chico Solareses was an original member and elder of La Barra Brava, one of the two big original supporters groups in MLS.

For instance, the bioengineered "Mutt" creatures become weapons of psychological terror in the Hunger Games — an annual event that forces each of Panem's 12 districts to provide a boy and girl tribute for a televised gladiatorial battle.

Although the Spaniards destroyed most pre-conquest examples of these books, in which pictures were painted on deerskin or on the bark of the fig tree, a few survive to provide information on genealogies, almanacs, tributes and calendars.

The British leader was granted peace when he agreed to provide hostages and pay an annual tribute to Rome.