(1) All former US presidents set up a library in their name to house their papers and honour their legacy.
(2) When faced with a big dilemma, the time-honoured tradition of politicians is to order an inquiry, and that is what Browne expects.
(3) And that ancient Basque cultural gem – the mysterious language with its odd Xs, Ks and Ts – will be honoured at every turn in a city where it was forbidden by Franco.
(4) "The role of leader is one of the greatest honours imaginable – but it is not a bauble to aspire for.
(5) Lord Thomson of Monifieth , the now deceased chairman of the political honours scrutiny committee, was a former Labour minister but then sat in the Lords as a Liberal Democrat peer.
(6) Two days after Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse , published a beautiful essay calling for this year's First World War commemorations to " honour those who died " and "celebrate the peace we now share", Michael Gove has delivered the government's response.
(7) Speaking about the player, who scored crucial goals for England during qualification for the 2014 World Cup, Hodgson said: “Andros was unlucky to lose his place in the squad when he wasn’t getting a regular game and he’s gone to Newcastle, got a regular game, and done very well there.” Expressing his delight in being selected, Townsend tweeted: “Huge honour to be named in provisional England squad for the euros ... Will give my all over next few weeks to try to make final squad!” Hodgson also declared himself pleased to include Jordan Henderson, who returned to action for Liverpool in Sunday’s 1-1 draw with West Bromwich Albion having been out since early April with damaged knee ligaments.
(8) We had a brief conversation and I said to him he was acting from high honour here, and I said how sorry I was this wasn’t happening in three or four years time..because Barry is a man of honour..and I think he is a very capable premier and I think he has been missed.” Asked whether he had ever met Nick di Girolamo , the prime minister said both he and Mr di Girolamo attended a lot of functions, and “I don’t for a moment say I have never met him but I don’t recall it.” But former federal Liberal MP Ross Cameron sounded much more sceptical about O’Farrell’s memory lapse when speaking to Sky News.
(9) Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system."
(10) But I say to the honourable gentleman we won’t get Britain building unless we keep our economy going.” Later, Marie called in to radio station LBC radio to say that the new Labour leader needed to “change the way he does things, mix things up each week and really not let the Conservatives know which side it’s coming from – firing on all corners but doing it in a calm and collected way”.
(11) Mr Cameron said on Thursday that our duty is "to honour those who served; to remember those who died; and to ensure that the lessons learned live with us for ever".
(12) Concern for the future and belief in scientific progress provided the motive for the foundation of the Prize which, in our time, is one of the most coveted of honours.
(13) Since the July summit, a reference group, a taskforce and working groups have been established to track whether pledges are being honoured and to monitor where, when and how contraceptives are being delivered.
(14) It is unclear whether the Trump administration will honour the agreement.
(15) Bratton says he is honoured to be asked to help and may be in London to meet the prime minister this week.
(16) The judge’s order to close the case came two weeks before US President Barack Obama is to be guest of honour at India’s Republic Day celebrations on 26 January.
(17) We defended this place with honour," Pogukay, a police colonel, said.
(18) Out of remaining single-honours courses, three-quarters of Italian degrees, two-thirds of German and half of French and Spanish studies degrees are taught at Russell Group universities.
(19) In a long piece on the Daily Beast, he also revealed that Mia Farrow had granted permission for her image to be used in film clips honouring Allen during the Golden Globes, and expressed surprise at her Twitter reaction.
(20) Sitting at the table today, Archie is doing his best to look the part – in time-honoured hip-hop style, there is an inspirational motto tattooed on his forearm in flowing script – and he and Foster have an impressive line in managerial hyperbole: "We believe that whatever record label we work for, we can change that label for the better because we understand what kids want to listen to."
Ornate
Definition:
(a.) Adorned; decorated; beautiful.
(a.) Finely finished, as a style of composition.
(v. t.) To adorn; to honor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Narrow paths weave among moss-covered ornate arches and towers on the 80-acre site, and huge abstract sculptures and staircases lead nowhere, but up to the sky.
(2) At the famed Winter Palace , formerly the home of the Egyptian royal family, ornate gold-and-glass chandeliers hang over empty brocade sofas, awaiting visitors.
(3) Next to an ornate Renaissance gate, the hall where the "English comedians" first acted still stands.
(4) The booming Bollywood music beckoned a stream of families, wearing ornate saris and sharp kurtas, fragrant plates of samosa chaat in hand, toward the stage, replete with an extravagant display of lights and visuals.
(5) Parts of the city already feel like a war zone: its ritziest hotel is eerily deserted though many rooms are being used as offices by international agencies drawn by the deepening crisis – blue helmets and flak jackets piled up on Persian carpets in an ornate reception room, white UN vehicles parked behind the blast barriers outside.
(6) It remains unclear how the attacker made his way past the armed guards protecting the building, but he got as far as the ornate Hall of Honour.
(7) These features are characteristic of sea urchin (Echinoderm) spines which are composed of ornately formed calcite crystals covered by an epithelium.
(8) What makes it such a strange breed is how it transcends those ornate, gothic novel trappings to explore, you know, real themes.
(9) The salmon-pink house, three storeys high with ornate balustrades, sits behind a large metal gate.
(10) He also bowed out of Carrier's in Camden Passage in 1984, retreating to Marrakesh and his ornately restored mansion there.
(11) Resembling an ornate garden maze from above, suqakollos – or waru-warus – are a patterned system of raised cropland and water-filled trenches.
(12) No phone line, no bathroom generally, coal heating only from huge tiled heaters in the corner of each room (and the yucky shitty yellow ones, not the lovely ornate versions you see in palaces).
(13) Had the Elysée's salles des fêtes been packed to the ornate rafters and chandeliers with French media, the sleight of hand might have worked.
(14) Interesting results regarding the polymorphic state of one or more pairs of macro-chromosomes in three species of colubrid snakes viz., Ahaetulla nasutus, Chrysopelea ornate and Acrochordus granulatus were obtained.
(15) There are so many empty buildings like this one in central London.” The building dates back to the 1820s and has numerous listed features including many ornate, hand-carved fireplaces.
(16) The spines of sea mice, on the other hand, are chitinous in nature; they are also much finer and lack the ornate symmetry of sea urchin spines.
(17) It sat in front of the ornate gold cross, immediately facing the Dean of Westminster as he prayed before the altar, and unambiguous in what it signified.
(18) In 1953, West German children began to be taught "lateinische Ausgangschrift", an ornate but more legible joined-up script, which roughly translates as "model Latin script".
(19) Standing beneath an ornate 17th-century chandelier, a self-assured Khan declared: “My name is Sadiq Khan and I’m the mayor of London.”He said he wanted the ceremony to take place in the cathedral as a reflection of his intent to represent “every single community” as a “mayor for all Londoners”.
(20) Sitting in an ornate meeting room across the street from the former army headquarters still in ruins from the Nato bombing, Vučić said such criticisms failed to take account of how he had changed.