Sentences with phrase «knighthood by»

Dr. Earle won the prestigious TED Prize in 2009 and was awarded a knighthood by the prince of the Netherlands way back in 1981.

The Irish - born British artist Michael Craig - Martin has been awarded his Knighthood by Prince William (The Duke Of Cambridge.

He was rewarded with a knighthood by his most famous patron, Charles I, and the sense that it would be impossible to better Van Dyck as a portrait painter was universally recognised and remarked on not only by his contemporaries but also his successors.

Eight days later, with sore nights spent in several places around London, he just may have earned a knighthood by the determination to get up each of those mornings and keep on walking the marathon's route.

The rabbi was recently confirmed a Papal Knighthood by Cardinal Timothy Dolan citing «the good works that he's done» to promote religious freedom and...

This was a time when Sir Fred Goodwin become plain old Fred Goodwin, too - the former RBS chief being stripped of his knighthood by a shadowy Whitehall committee.

Not exact matches

That was the century when, during two terrible years, the Black Death killed more than a third of the population from Iceland to India, returning four more times before the era was up; when gangs of terrorists roamed and plundered Europe without hindrance; when the Hundred Years War took on a life of its own, frustrating efforts to end it, «an epic of brutality and bravery checkered by disgrace»; when new weapons and errant knighthood brought an end to chivalry; when widespread peasant revolt was answered by terrible aristocratic repression; and when internal scandal robbed the church of its ability to comfort and save.

He would have been spared all his recent embarrassment over his bid for a knighthood if honours were sold open and honestly by the Treasury instead of under the counter by politicians.

Big chants when Sir Bob stood up, by the way, over his new knighthood.

Given that the unanimous vote by MPs today was not binding, what are the chances of Sir Philip Green being stripped of his knighthood?

The great and unavoidable debate about top pay, pensions, Fred Goodwin's knighthood and Stephen Hester's bonus - swollen and exacerbated by the biggest squeeze on middle - class incomes in a generation - is being exploited by our partners in government to rescue them from reputational damage, wreak it on us instead, and roll back the clock to the dismal years before the Thatcher tax revolution.

In February this year, CFI organised a delegation to Israel headed by former Tory Party and CFI chairman Eric Pickles to celebrate his knighthood.

His men, anachronistically called «knights» (knights won't actually become a thing for another 500 years or so, after the Norman conquest; this is an example of an acceptable anachronism, especially since the Arthurian legends, composed in the age of chivalry, have already imposed knighthood on the historical story (if there was one, more about that later)-RRB- are Sarmatians, drafted into Imperial service as part of a 3rd Century surrender agreement between their people and the Empire (not historical: the Sarmatians remained a power in the Ukraine and Balkan regions through the end of the Western Empire, though there is a theory that the Arthurian legends are influenced by or even sourced in, similar Sarmatian stories (notably one about a lady with a sword in a lake), the influence purported to have come from a community of Sarmatian veterans in Lancashire).

At this ThinkQuest Junior site, created by students from Pennsylvania's Salford Hills Elementary School, visitors strive for knighthood as they tour the inside and outside of a medieval castle.

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He was awarded a «Legion d'honneur» — a French knighthood — by the president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy.

Congratulations to Zanele Muholi on receiving the Knighthood of the Order of Arts and Letters bestowed by the French Government.

These responsibilities, which were rewarded by a CBE in 1952 and a knighthood in 1956, and his famously slow working methods restricted Coldstream's production to three or four paintings a year.