Sentences with phrase «knighthood as»

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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It's hard to imagine a modern - day academic, under pressure to produce, leaving such a volume of work unpublished, but Oakeshott never felt compelled to bow to worldly pressures or pursue worldly gains — going so far as to decline, graciously, an offer of a knighthood.

I trust that he will be given an honorary knighthood for the wonderful job he has done for Arsenal, as well as the whole of football in this country.

There was an unexpected backlash against the decision to strip Fred Goodwin of his knighthood this morning, as senior politicians, business leaders and media outlets criticised the move.

It is this same drive for arms sales and political influence which saw the Assad regime treated as allies and Tony Blair lobbying for him to receive a knighthood in 2002.

Edward Troup, who steps down at the end of 2017 as executive chair and permanent secretary of HM Revenue & Customs, receives a knighthood in the New Year honours list, one of many public servants to be recognised.

A quarter of all knighthoods in the New Year honours list have gone to politicians, including the Tory kingmaker Graham Brady, who has Theresa May's political future in his hands as chair of the 1922 Committee of backbenchers, and former Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg.

Without these awards from the monarchy many would go unrewarded or people would not care about the achievement especially in terms of awards that are granted due to achievement in a certain academic field, such as David Attenborough's knighthood for his contribution to life science.

Alan Duncan, the former international development minister, and Hugh Robertson, the former Foreign Office minister, will receive KCMG knighthoods in the diplomatic list known as «Kindly Call Me God».

He railed against Collins, saying: «He treats his seat in Congress as some sort of knighthood.»

As it's a step below knighthood, we won't have to call him Sir Bill, but the honor goes to only about two Americans each year.

But the knighthood for Simon Jenkins, the ex-editor of the Times and a prominent member of the great and good, will confirm that newspaper's enduring establishment role as a friend of successive governments.

The episode ends with a preview of next week's episode «When Knighthood was in Flower» (the 1953 film released theatrically as The Sword and the Rose) and the feature film The Littlest Outlaw.

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).

Write a short oath of knighthood, and have the students repeat it as a group.

It includes a wealth of information and contains references to How March got its name (Mars - the God of War), things associated with March - daffodils, Zodiac signs, birthstone, Equinox, Spring, sayings «as mad as a March hare» Special Days in March - Easter, St Patrick's Day, Saint David's Day, Saint Piran's Day, Saint Joseph's Day, Women's History Month, Simnel Sunday, Mothering Sunday / Mother's Day, World Maths Day, the Jewish festival of Purim, International Women's Day, World Water Day, Lady Day (the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary), Oranges and Lemons Children's Service, World Book Day Notable Birthdays — Will I Am, Albert Einstein, Frederic Chopin, Dr Seuss (Theodor Geisel), Alexander Graham Bell, Vivaldi, Michelangelo, nat King Cole, Steve McQueen, Robbie Coltrane, Wilfred Owen, Fernando Torres, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ronaldinho, Alan Sugar, Harry Houdini, Vincent Van Gogh Discoveries, Launches, Inventions — Twitter, Barbie Doll, Coca - Cola, discovery of Uranus, the first elevator, Rolls Royce, first internet domain name, English football league, telephone patented Notable Events and Happenings — Great Flood of Sheffield, Knighthood of Paul McCartney, release of first Beatles album, «Titanic» won 11 Academy Awards It also contains hyperlinks to - Vivaldi's Four Seasons Spring (La Primavera)- Bach's «Air on G String» - St Clement's bells ringing «Orange and Lemons» - Chopin's Etude Op. 25 No. 11 «Winter Wind» - The Beatles «Please, Please Me» - Hares «boxing» A simple text version of this presentation, more appropriate for younger / SEN pupils is also available.

Brady, who was tipped as a possible future education secretary last year, has spoken of his «delight» at the «great honour» of his knighthood.

For every Daniel Day - Lewis there is a Sir Christopher Lee (And Mr Lee is the one with a knighthood) so your claims here are pretty worthless as a response.

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.

He claimed ever after to have remained an outsider, despite his appointment as CBE (1976), a knighthood (1992) and being made a Companion of Honour (2003), with trusteeships, successively, of the Tate and the National Gallery, appearances on TV's The South Bank Show, with Melvyn Bragg, and Arena, with Alan Yentob, and sundry honorary fellowships and doctorates.

Chosen to exhibit in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennial in 1952, 1954, 1960, 1964 and 1968, and at the documenta in 1959, 1964, 1968, 1977 and decorated with a Knighthood in 1989, following his appointment as Her Majesty's Sculptor in Ordinary for Scotland, Paolozzi received many national and international accolades; his works are collected in international institutions from the Tate in London to Berlin's Nationalgalerie, to the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Over a long and successful career, Craig - Martin has received numerous awards: notably appointment as a Royal Academician in 2006, Chief Coordinator of the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2015, and a knighthood for services to the Arts in 2016.

He received many national and international accolades — from being chosen to exhibit in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1952, 1954, 1960, 1964, 1968) and documenta (1959, 1964, 1968, 1977), to being decorated with a Knighthood in 1989 following his appointment as Her Majesty's Sculptor in Ordinary for Scotland.

I assumed that, having borrowed Dr Motl's identity, Mr Cook had also borrowed his PhD, as well as James Lovelock's FRS, John Houghton's knighthood, Ron Oxburgh's peerage and Michael Mann's Nobel Prize.

The Queen has never been on a computer, she told Bill Gates as she awarded him an honorary knighthood.