Sentences with phrase «badge of honour»

The titles and lyrics form a kind of manifesto of loneliness, elevating self - doubt and even insecurity into badges of honour.

It is the best display on a Vivo smartphone yet, and that is a good enough badge of honour as far as I can tell.

My husband was saying the other day that «busy» seems to have become the new badge of honour.

19/04/2018 06:00 pm - Gaining access in to the Europa League would be a huge badge of honour for the Clarets according to boss Sean Dyche...

[3][6][7] Some art movements themselves were named disparagingly by critics, with the name later adopted as a sort of badge of honour by the artists of the style (e.g., Impressionism, Cubism), with the original negative meaning forgotten.

Gaining access in to the Europa League would be a huge badge of honour for the Clarets according to boss Sean Dyche...

And that is something that as a committed supporter badge of honour, and is identical to the way the Internet operates.

Stories such as this one, Postpartum & Motherhood: Battle Wounds & Badge of Honour which Masumé has generously shared, speak to these costs, show that these women are not alone, and, thankfully, give hope that recovery is possible and motherhood can be fully enjoyed and embraced with or without breast milk.

But Steve Webb has lasted the course — in fact he's the longest serving pensions minister since the job was invented — and I caught up with him to discuss how it's been for the man whose other badge of honour is that he was one of the founders of the Social Liberal Forum.

Actor Brian Rix and Jimmy Savile were among 27 Bevin Boys collecting a special badge of honour at No 10 today as the 60th anniversary of the last of their number being demobilised was marked.

No other sphere of medicine has managed to make private business quite so glamorous; it seems that as long as it's in the confines of a dedicated clinic, a bowel motion is a modern badge of honour.

After a while, Patrick Tobin's script seems to wear its plain - speaking tendencies like some perverse badge of honour, all the while ignoring the fact that the movie's overarching narrative seems itself to be a lie.

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There's no denying that Axiom Verge wears its inspirations proudly like a big badge of honour.

Being sacked by Al Gore is indeed probably the ultimate badge of honour in any true scientist's career.

It's a conversation - starter, a unique professional badge of honour or a memorable personal anecdote.

In an Entrepreneur article last year defending Donald Trump's long trail of bankruptcies, editor - at - large Ray Hennessey called failure «a badge of honour.»

It's a badge of honour.

That said, with an IPO on the horizon, Twitter now has a badge of honour that makes it one of the tech big boys: a failed music app, à la Microsoft's Zune and Apple's Ping.

Sadly a house is not so much a home anymore as it is a badge of honour, an ATM machine and a right of passage into a classist society.

Now I'm even more impressed / humbled by the Amish way if they have the wisdom to know that being chosen is a serious responsibility, and not a badge of honour.

The term was intended to be worn as a badge of honour, like «loyalist», «crusader» or «republican».

«As we enter the general Election period and discuss the future of our country, debate the terms of Brexit and our relationship with the EU, as we also form our new relationship with the world, it is time to wear our aid budget as a badge of honour - one that sets a standard for others to follow.»

But there's a trend going around, one that encourages people to view their cognitive dissonance — that defense mechanism that helps to keep us from being able to live with certain biases and prejudices when they conflict with reality — as a badge of honour, like they are better because they realize that they are feel to reject logic, fact, reason.

I want to wear a badge of honour that proudly states «I down 3 Tbsp of psyllium in one go».

A captaincy is there to say this guy is here to lead and organise the team, it is not meant as a badge of honour to say I've served the longest at Arsenal or I've scored the most goals etc. etc..

Not sure that is a badge of honour.

Burnley manager Sean Dyche has told ESPN FC that Europa League qualification would be a «badge of honour» as his team look to hold seventh place.

Far from being a term of abuse, the word «Papist» is in fact the name under which the English Martyrs gave their lives, and expresses the cause for which they did so, making it a badge of honour, to be worn with pride.

He said he regarded the critical story from the Mail as a «badge of honour».

Its been like a badge of honour over the last couple of months — I think people worried that they were alone in decidng to vote no and increasingly felt relief to discover there were others.

Her pride in being «normal» is something she wears as a badge of honour, celebrating her Brummy accent, determined to carry on speaking in her own voice because «if we don't start sounding like the public, ordinary people will disengage and we'll be left with the Establishment holding court and we can't have that!»

Under Tony Blair it almost became a badge of honour.

Badge of honour.

Former home secretary David Blunkett has admitted that anti-social behaviour orders (Asbos) are not working and are seen as a «badge of honour» by some youngsters.

Around 11,000 former Bevin Boys are set to receive the badge of honour, which was first announced by then prime minister Tony Blair last June after a sustained campaign.

Young people regard Asbos as a «badge of honour» and the orders are not necessarily the best way to deal with youth offending, a new report warns.

But in Nigeria, calling some one a thieve is like wearing him a badge of honour.

«To be the enemy of the National Union of Teachers is a badge of honour.

as a badge of honour due to all the times George Osborne wheeled him out to defend the government.

Overall I personally think it helps the Tory Party enormously to have people like Heidi Allen, Sarah Woollaston, Tamia Matthias as MPs as when people accuse them of being the nasty party they can point to the aforementioned individuals as evidence that they are not, even if selecting such candidates is met by the predictable howls of protest with the very loud minority who saw the Nasty tag as a badge of honour

Why is it a badge of honour NOT to have been to Oxbridge?

It's a badge of honour to say you managed to publish a paper in Nature.