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They're honorary officials and rarely have any autonomy, though that is governed by state laws, not national laws.

Similarly, the Dalai Lama has won a Nobel Peace Prize, congressional gold medal (highest civilian honor), honorary citizenships and doctorates.

Oh and Amazon's head of tax was Luxembourg Honorary Consul to the Seattle are, hum.

Some University should give Notch an Honorary degree soon, if he hasn't got one already.

The problem lies in that corporate culture sees management as a hierarchical and honorary title, rather than a specific task and function.

The guy was awarded 15 honorary doctorates and praised by so many Republicans.

The honorary Australian citizenship was a really important event in my fathers life.

At the end of the day, this means that honorary degrees, athletic scholarships, and status-based admissions were out from the beginning because they are diametrically opposed to the mission of the Institute.

In 1926 all honorary and special commissionerships in the police...

My guess is that's why they withheld the honorary degree.

For those of you watching hockey recently, that's the same disease that Jonathon Pitre has, the kid who has become an honorary scout for the Ottawa Senators.

In the story about Sir Tim Hunt, he resigned (possibly voluntarily, but no matter) from an honorary professorship at UCL, while maintaining his day job at Cancer Research UK.

MIT has allowed certain people to serve as "honorary lecturers." That's what Winston Churchill did.

You don't hear people talking about how they received "their degree" from some university when in fact it was actually an honorary degree.

(I'm not counting honorary doctorates, which he has, and why he writes "Dr." in front of his name--yes, an honorary doctorate allows for that).

I don't feel like my degree is somehow cheapened because my university gives honorary degrees to people who didn't "earn it".

Honorary degrees are just that, honorary, to honor someone.