Sentences with phrase «of knighthoods»

His full resignation honours list will be published within weeks, with a spattering of knighthoods and peerages set to go to aides.

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.

The higher honours confer noble titles: «Sir» and «Dame» in the case of knighthoods; «Lord» and «Baron» or «Lady» and «Baroness» in the case of life peerages; and one of the ranks of the hereditary nobility in the case of hereditary peerages.

The director of public prosecutions and head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) Ken McDonald, leads the list of knighthoods in the Queen's 2007 new year's honours.

The announcement of his knighthood rekindled the ire of strident Islamic groups in Iran, Pakistan and Malaysia.

It's hard to imagine a modern - day academic, under pressure to produce, leaving such a volume of work unpublished, but Oakeshott never felt compelled to bow to worldly pressures or pursue worldly gains — going so far as to decline, graciously, an offer of a knighthood.

Loyal, stubborn, and headstrong, the statuesque Brienne of Tarth embodies the chivalry and honor of knighthood.

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.

MPs have unanimously backed a call for former BHS owner Sir Philip Green to be stripped of his knighthood.

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.

Sir Fred Goodwin has been stripped of his knighthood, in a sign of the extent of public anger over bankers and the financial crisis.

Ruffley was also a former special advisor to Ken Clarke when he was Chancellor and also campaigned for Fred Goodwin to be stripped of his knighthood.

Several Popes set up orders of knighthood and gave out other honours to finance the Crusades or the protection of pilgrims to the Holy Land.

Alastair Campbell claimed bankers, politicians and regulators were all in denial over their part in the financial crisis, and stripping Fred Goodwin of his knighthood was irrelevant.

Banker Fred Goodwin was stripped of his knighthood last year after leaving the Royal Bank of Scotland teetering on the brink of collapse and needing a taxpayer - funded rescue.

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

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

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

It offers insights into the intrigues behind Magna Carta, into medieval notions of knighthood and chivalry and into social diversity in the Middle Ages.

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

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Only his wisdom was directed towards those hoping to become masters of business rather than masters of a mystical, intergalactic knighthood.

In 2006, at the age of 39, Stelios received a knighthood from HM Queen Elizabeth II for services to entrepreneurship.

Traces of those fascinations appear throughout this book (although there is no mention of his enthusiasm for the modern literary knighthood of superheroes and science fiction films).

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.

Even Chaplin's recently bestowed knighthood — however much deserved and belatedly granted — sat rather awkwardly on a figure whose greatness lay in his portrayal of a tough but tender little tramp who stood at the bottom of the social order, if not quite outside of it, and who in real life had come from the slums of London.

The knighthood is in recognition of the faithful and devoted service Mr Leach has given to supporting the mission of the Catholic Church through publications and media communication.

Jim was a regular fixture at the Wednesday night Parliamentary Masses, and in recognition of his commitment to his faith and the Church he received a Papal Knighthood from Pope Benedict XVI and became a Knight of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St George.

He was adopted into God's family, inducted into the knighthood of worship.Not that anyone....

The Former Bishop of Liverpool, James Jones, has awarded his knighthood for services to the families... More

He was adopted into God's family, inducted into the knighthood of worship.

This year is even worse than usual, back - to - back international tournaments ensuring that plenty of players are either just sloping back from their holidays, or have gone to London to help Sebastian Coe in his bid for a knighthood baronetcy viscounty.

The Knighthood got him all sorts of benefits that other teams did not, I heard a myth that some team won a penalty over there once.

I wonder what you thought of Beckham when he abused the people who give out Knighthoods when he never got one.

Ranieri was voted Manager of the Year and for what he achieved at Leicester, but the man deserved a knighthood.

From Men in Blazers: To celebrate the return of meaning (aka Premier League Football) into our lives, the Men In Blazers, descend into The Swamp to play a live show for the ages at a location we can not yet reveal, but it might be the first step towards a Davo 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.

Where once we had a great battle of ideologies in public life, between the socialist left and the capitalist right, between authoritarians and liberals, now we have only the coffee house gossip of whether Keith Vaz will get a knighthood for his vote on 42 days and the identities of the «thirty women» Nick Clegg says he has slept with.

Following the row over the latest round of bank bonuses and the withdrawal of Fred Goodwin's knighthood, he has invoked One Nation sentiment in relation to banks and their moral obligations to regions, business, family and individuals.

Sir Desmond — who was awarded his knighthood in June — told Radio 4's Westminster Hour that the honours list was a «relatively light» way of rewarding service.

It is true that the Prime Minister is re-inventing the political knighthood, and that the collapse of Lords reform opens up the prospect of more peerages, but patronage has taken a hit, and Downing Street has come late to using what it has.

Some well - known people have received honours this year including: • actor Kenneth Branagh receives a knighthood, Kate Winslet a CBE and Jenny Agutter an OBE • architect Zaha Hadid receives a DBE, opera director David McVicar is knighted, and comic writer Grant Morrison gets an MBE • there were MBEs for world number one ranked golfer Luke Donald, Welsh rugby union player Shane Williams and former England goalkeeper David James • satirist Armando Iannucci gets an OBE, and there are CBEs for journalist Peter Riddell and cookery writer Mary Berry • there were OBEs for singer - songwriter Gary Barlow who organised the Queen's Jubilee Concert, and Sarah Burton, designer of Kate Middleton's wedding dress

[85] Darling declared «There is something tawdry about the government directing its fire at Fred Goodwin alone; if it's right to annul his knighthood, what about the honours of others who were involved in RBS and HBOS?»

His predecessor at the Home Office, Mark Sedwill, who has been national security adviser since April 2017, also receives a knighthood, under the Order of St Michael and St George.

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.

Meanwhile, former cabinet ministers Danny Alexander and Vince Cable get knighthoods, after apparently turning down the chance to go to the House of Lords.

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.

Several of these survive (Rupert Murdoch, of all people acquired a Papal knighthood in 1998 after donating money to Catholic education.)

James I revived the ancient title of baronet to create hereditary knighthoods.

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.