• The Spanish government reckoned that at least a show of resistance was needed to save national honour.

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  • Not content with standing on Turkey's own national honour, Mr Erdogan is also intent on making Turkey a champion of the Palestinians.

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  • In another scholarly study, Ruth Harris, an Oxford University historian, shows how the battle to establish his innocence was never, as myth would have it, a neat tale pitting the forces of truth and justice against paranoid military authority and national honour.

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  • She tended his memory, most notably by lobbying, successfully, for a national holiday to honour it.

    ECONOMIST: A life of pain and sacrifice

  • Many Palestinians, including the young student Karma, pointed to President Obama's visit to Ramallah, with an honour guard and national anthems, "as a recognition of the Palestinian state".

    BBC: Will Obama visit prompt new round of peace talks?

  • That was hardly a recipe for the sort of confidence some Welsh fans and pundits were displaying ahead of the clash with Australia, a team honour-bound by national tradition to do all in their power to redeem themselves in the eyes of a hyper-critical public and media.

    BBC: Fans disappointed by Wales slump

  • Some of the people who helped to make the games such a success were recognised, including Lord Coe, who becomes a Companion of Honour, a special honour given for service of conspicuous national importance and limited to 65 people at any one time.

    BBC: Olympic heroes head New Year Honours

  • The Women in Music Foundation , the members of the International Honour Committee , (comprising national associations, composers, musicologists and distinguished women), together with a network of musicians in 116 countries, gives visibility, safeguards and sustains research regarding historic artistic production, encourages contemporary creativity and the musical and cultural diversity of women composers.

    UNESCO: OFFICE IN VENICE

  • At his inauguration last week in the national sports stadium, President Koroma did several laps of honour in an open-topped car.

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  • It my pleasure and honour to join you today to launch the first National Immunization Campaign against Polio in Angola this year.

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  • It will honour two Cuban authors: Zoila Lapique Becali, National Award of Social Sciences 2002, and Ambrosio Fornet Frutos, National Award of Literature 2009 and National Award for Edition 2000.

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  • Labour said it had "serious concerns" about the future of UK development policy at a time when there should be "unity and pride" over the decision to honour a commitment to spend 0.7% of national income on aid.

    BBC: Farmers work in a field in Jalalabad, in Afghanistan

  • The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has joined hundreds of people to honour police officers killed in the line of duty, at the National Police Memorial Day service in Belfast.

    BBC: Police sacrifice honoured at memorial day in Belfast

  • She was called up to play for the national team but her culture's traditions and views prevented her from accepting the honour.

    BBC: David Beckham's 2018 World Cup bid letter of support

  • The John Ivinson Memorial Prize is named in honour of the late John Ivinson who was an active member of the UK National Commission for UNESCO Communication and Information Committee and past president of the British Computing Society.

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  • McCoy, who won the Grand National on Don't Push It in April, is the first jockey to win the honour.

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  • He urged volunteers to honour the memory of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, whose birthday, a national holiday, falls on Monday.

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  • The Order of the Companions of Honour was instituted in 1917 and is conferred on men and women for recognised services of national importance.

    BBC: Jessica Ennis appointed CBE in New Year Honours list

  • Junior minister Stephen Crabb explained in a written parliamentary answer that as the Wales office is not an employer in its own right it has to honour the terms and conditions of its staff depending on their home departments (such as the National Assembly for Wales).

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  • It is a huge honour (and a large cash prize) to be named the Calypso Monarch, the person chosen in national judging for their musical performances.

    BBC: A Caribbean carnival of carnivals

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