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tribute English

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tribute

A tribute is an acknowledgment of gratitude, respect or admiration. Please accept this as a tribute of our thanks. A tribute is a payment made by one nation to another as a sign of dependence.

tribute

To pay as tribute.

tribute

something given or done as an expression of esteem payment by one nation for protection by another (= protection) payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence every store in the neighborhood had to pay him protection

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Simple sentences

Every year Moscow pays a tribute of 2 billion dollars to the Chechen Republic to keep it part of Russia.
The fact that I survived is a tribute to the indestructibility of the human body.
The whole company stood in silence for a few moments, as a tribute to the dead.

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Macartney brought with him ample tribute the most advanced scientific instruments, including the finest clocks that England could make.
There are quite many products for tribute.
Park from Taean sent 30 packs of dried laver, and also from all 8 provinces of the country, many tribute products were sent.
Something of an unusual tribute.
I cannot let the evening pass. without paying a little tribute to our distinguished guests of honor: The three greatest aviators in the world.
When wholesalers refuse to pay tribute the racketeers prevent them from moving shipments.
He collects tribute from every saloon and gambling game.
And so we are met here today. facing the open sea on three points of the compass. to pay tribute to the men who have sailed from this port. and gone down to that sea, never to return.
So to those of these men. whose last resting place is beneath the sea they loved. we pay our humble tribute. as we cast these wreaths and flowers. upon the waters of their outgoing tide.
He made but one condition: That they pay him each year the tribute of a falcon in acknowledgement that Malta was still under Spain.
They hit upon the thought of sending for his first year's tribute, not an insignificant live bird but a glorious golden falcon crusted from head to foot with the finest jewels in their coffers.
That's a tribute.
Mr. Mayor, I'm touched by your tribute.
Shall I accept it as a tribute from Gail or from you?
My country could have no greater tribute than Your Majesty's curiosity.
Such unanimity is a tribute to our photography.
It is perhaps the swamp, but we each pay the same tribute.
Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute.
He made but one condition: That they pay him yearly the tribute of a falcon in acknowledgement that Malta was still under Spain.
She's brought you these rice cakes as a tribute.
A serviceman is supposed to have a funeral. That's a tribute to the way he spent his life.
A respectful tribute its reincarnation.
It's not often they pay a police officer a tribute and a rookie at that.
They brought this tribute to avoid battle.
Dear friends, We are gathered here to pay solemn and loving tribute To the memory of 3 fine and beautiful young boys cut off in the fullness of life's morn'.
It was for a tribute show.
Tribute show!
Some tribute show!
I told you, for my tribute show.
I permit the farmers to work my land, and they in return. pay me a yearly tribute and a share of their produce.
The first man will come forward, bringing with him rent and tribute.
A fine tribute he received - a grenade. KNOCK AT DOOR Lindley?
It's the perfect tribute to an enchanting wife from an enchanted husband.
Why, these were a tribute from an admirer of mine.

News and current affairs

But it is a tribute to the American two-party system's capacity for political integration that extremist forces remain marginalized, despite the rhetoric of the Tea Party.
It is also a tribute to diplomatic resourcefulness and negotiating skill.
Unlike Politkovskaya, the great scientist and human right activist Andrei Sakharov had not been murdered, and the tribute given to him then looked like the celebration of a new era.
Because Abe is the nationalist grandson of a former prime minister who was once arrested as a war criminal, and because he has paid public tribute to soldiers who died for the emperor in World War II, these protests might seem reasonable.
Nevertheless, hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue, and the fact that racists and sexists must pay this tribute is an indication of some moral progress.
Dozens of Libyan activist groups have uploaded videos paying tribute to Stevens, as well as issuing statements against terrorism and Al Qaeda.
People have come to pay tribute.
Allowing recognized artists to get away with behavior that would not be tolerated in lesser men is a tribute France pays to superior talent.
But, whereas the struggle between China and Japan for dominance over Korea was the focal point of the East Asian drama, Taiwan was but a side-show, a mere outpost to the Imperial Qing Dynasty, while Korea was a vassal paying tribute to China.
Some of the project's adversaries claim that it must be stopped because it will be a tribute to the perpetrators of a despicable deed.
Thus, one should pay tribute to the resilience of Dutch Muslims as they resist the provocations of the right-wing politician Geert Wilders, who is bent on releasing a film that can only inflame public prejudice against Islam.
Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize is a fitting tribute to a world leader who has been prescient, bold, and skillful in alerting the world to the dangers of manmade climate change.
In the end, even Spassky paid the ultimate tribute to Fischer's genius, clapping along with the audience after Fischer's inspired sixth-game victory, as portrayed in the movie.
The previous building, aging and slightly outdated, was a tribute to the universal appeal of the country's great painters like Rembrandt and Vermeer; it was a perfect celebration of light and family.
Europe should stand with Iran's civil society, and the European Parliament has already paid tribute to the courage of all those Iranian men and women who are defending their basic freedoms and democratic principles.
The Americans, and to an extent the British, sometimes pay a different kind of tribute to famous artists.
Governments are often confronting the challenge with courage and determination, and the use of African forces in many countries to try to keep peace is a tribute to that resolve.
PRAGUE - Ten years ago today the Czechoslovak Communist power brutally intervened against a peaceful demonstration of students who had decided to pay tribute to the memory Jan Opletal, a student who was one of the first victims of Nazism.
The Kaesong Industrial Complex, a joint venture of the North and South Korean governments, is both a tribute to the concept of diplomatic reconciliation through business and a difficult test of its feasibility.

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