Sentence examples for what honours from inspiring English sources

What matters is what honours are awarded for.

But the Conservative deputy leader, Michael Ancram, defended the honours system, saying: "Honours should be there to reward merit and as long as that is what honours are doing then they are a very valuable part of the way our society works.

There is the chaplain who has forgotten about fear because he, like the prisoners, is close to death, and the police inspector, Escherich, whose sojourn in the Gestapo "basements" teaches him that "it doesn't matter how he looks, what he does, what honours and praise he receives – he knows he is nothing.

What honours are we talking about?

'They are men and know what honour is,' he said.

Stating that the police congratulated him on what he had done, Ali says: "They are men and know what honour is" - implying that women inherently do not.

"What honour is left to us?" asked a Mughal official named Narayan Singh, shortly after 1765, "when we have to take orders from a handful of traders who have not yet learned to wash their bottoms?" We still talk about the British conquering India, but that phrase disguises a more sinister reality.

"If she had run away with Yogesh, what honour would we have left then?" he asks.

I ask them what honour the family has now that they are accused of murdering their own daughter?

Heaven knows what honour he has reserved for Donald Rumsfeld, the apparently unsackable defence secretary.Hard choices aheadMr Bush has given signs that he wants to tighten up his act.

These people sum up what the honours system is all about – recognising ordinary people who do extraordinary things.