| The book of Ruth embraces the foreign wife, Ruth the Moabitess, and gives her the honorific role of progenitress in King David's lineage. |
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| He had his position and he thought it gave him power, when really it is a purely honorific title. |
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| The Constitution vests the supreme command in the President but this, as the Constitution makes clear, is an honorific office. |
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| He decided to avoid the use of a name or honorific, and just try a question. |
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| Berg himself is so above it all that even his wife refers to him, at least to the press, only by an honorific. |
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| Many Mexican officers held honorific commissions but knew little about military matters. |
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| Addressing opponents with an honorific needlessly elevates them, so stick to first names. |
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| Thus, in the case of an honorific status, no powers are associated with it, according to him. |
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| Because the tribunate was a largely honorific function, this was a remarkable sign of devotion to duty. |
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| Children address their elders by using the honorific form of Nepali, while adults speak to children using more familiar language. |
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| They refused to use honorific titles and deferential forms of address such as your excellency, my lord, because they were not literally true. |
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| A doctor who stands around and lets a patient die over money does not deserve the honorific. |
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| The white pomfret is the most highly esteemed fish for serving at honorific meals in Malaysia, where the excess of demand over supply makes it expensive. |
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| The tribes also passed honorary decrees, awarded honorific crowns, and sponsored dinners for all members at the time of the Dionysiac and Panathenaic festivals. |
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| He held numerous honorific positions with the Paris Chamber of Commerce as well as the national association of legal experts. |
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| A superior in organization speaks honorific language and acts respectfully even to his subordinates. |
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| Caricature, that marvellous counterpart to honorific portraiture, also forms an important part of the collection. |
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| The Athenians, on the other hand, didn't hold their elders in such high esteem, bestowing on them only honorific powers. |
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| If you do not know the correct honorific, then call up the organization and ask the receptionist. |
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| In both Canada and Britain the title head of state is an honorific, not a legal or constitutional, term. |
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| Although honorific epithets were commonplace for the Seleucids and Ptolemies, the nicknames of all other members of the Antigonid family were either uncertain or insulting. |
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| Rather, it indicated their willingness to accept yet another honorific chairmanship from parishioners that required little active engagement from them. |
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| The president will determine whether the individual is to continue in the endowed or honorific position and will notify the individual of the decision. |
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| He now occupies the lofty position of Editor Emeritus at the Irish Times, an honorific title given to him for loyal, distinguished service, dedication beyond the call, etc. |
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| Common Samoan is the Samoan language of commerce and normal village interactions, while Respect Samoan includes honorific terms used for others of equal or greater rank. |
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| A Japanese man was so enraged by an acquaintance's failure to address him with an honorific that he stabbed him to death with an umbrella, police said yesterday. |
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| At least he hadn't corrected my use of the masculine honorific. |
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| The meaning of this title may have been honorific, but it is also striking. |
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| She does not carry the honorific title HRH as she is descended through the female line. |
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| For no especially good reason, I tend to jump right in with the first name if the person is actually in my field, but use an honorific for someone in another discipline. |
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| The National Academy of Sciences, an honorific society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, is dedicated to furthering science and technology for the general welfare. |
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| In the morning, Mansour promoted him to the honorific title of Field Marshal – a move that often foreshadows an Egyptian officer's resignation from the military. |
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| While he has dismantled Niyazov's personality cult, he has maintained an authoritarian leadership style and has adopted the honorific title of arkadag – protector. |
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| According to Pliny, the custom of setting up honorific statues on columns was a comparably ancient one. |
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| Given the honorific title of 'Mother' by her tribe, she is a living representation of the role of empowerment rural women play in protecting their land and culture. |
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| But sometimes, if one of his subordinates is showing excessive respect, this superior might speak in ordinary language, not in honorific forms, in order to put his subordinate at ease. |
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| Since the 1960s, however, the term has lost this honorific aspect and is applied generally to women who are ballet dancers. |
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| The inscriptions give the honorific titles of an anonymous ruler. |
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| Although the honorific does not become part of the name, holders can demand that the title appear in official documents. |
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| Later evolution has made the Hispanic distinction between villas and ciudades a purely honorific one. |
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| The distinction between these orders and decorations is somewhat vague, except that these honorific orders still implied a membership in a group. |
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| Most, if not all, modern states have honorific orders and decorations of some kind, and those are sometimes called orders of knighthood. |
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| Osborne was also given the honorific title of First Secretary of State, which had been held by William Hague in the preceding ministry. |
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| Tribal chiefs are known as Sheikhs, though this term is also sometimes applied as an honorific title to spiritual leaders of Sufism. |
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| This offer was declined, but he was granted honorific Ming titles for his gesture. |
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| They typically do not receive the honorific forms of address nor do they bear the symbolic trappings of a publicly appointed judge. |
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| In her honorific address this evening and in the name of the Foundation Board, the speaker will consider Polke's Grossmünster windows in particular as she recognizes his extraordinary body of work. |
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| She was immediately awarded the honorific medal by the Director General of UNESCO, Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, testifying to the recognition of the efforts made by women in their fight against obscurantism. |
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| I retired from the court about six and a half years ago, and so it's just Pat LeSage or Mr. LeSage, as you should choose, but we do not carry that honorific with us. |
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| In most English local assemblies, the office of Mayor is an honorific position. London is one of the few exceptions, with a mayor elected by direct universal suffrage. |
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| He addressed the 146th annual meeting of the honorific society of scientists and engineers that provides advice to the U. S. government on science and technology issues. |
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| Generals who were granted a triumph were termed triumphators and would erect fornices or honorific arches bearing statues to commemorate their victories. |
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| Asquith was to be retained as prime minister, and given honorific oversight of the War Council, but day to day operations would be directed by Lloyd George. |
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| After 1469, however, it was permanently united to the royal domain, although the title was occasionally conferred as an honorific upon junior members of the royal family. |
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| Historians generally believe that George played an honorific role in Britain, and closely followed the advice of Walpole and senior ministers who made the major decisions. |
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