Sentence examples for a distinguished position. from inspiring English sources

(The Vatican then gave him a distinguished position in Rome; he is now retired).

ON November 8, the centenary occurs of the birth of Johann Carl Friedrich Zollner, who in the course of a comparatively short career raised himself to a distinguished position among German astronomers as a pioneer in astrophysics.

It happens that the author's paternal grandfather, Leonard, worked with Enrico Fermi, held a distinguished position with Westinghouse and was never seen by his grandson in anything other than dark slacks, white shirt and a thin, dark tie.

He focuses on three problems in syntactic theory that are connected to "extraction"—the occurrence of an element in a distinguished position distinct from its unmarked locus in simple clauses.

"I don't doubt that he should receive the full support of the Australian government and, frankly, I am mystified that there would even be a proposition that the Australian government is not backing the Australian candidate for such a distinguished position.

She also holds a distinguished position in literary history: not only was she, as Virginia Woolf called her, the "mother of English fiction," she also wrote voluminous letters and diaries covering 70 years, which remain a hugely detailed record of 18th- and early 19th-century social life.

She's now the president judge of the Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia, a very distinguished position; perhaps more distinguished than being a Federal District Court judge.

Induction is only one of many techniques through which one may attempt to wrestle with infinity in finite terms (which is to say: with home field advantage), but it holds a rather distinguished position in mathematics.

Educated at Swarthmore, Harvard and Oxford, he holds a distinguished tenured position at Princeton, once held by Woodrow Wilson, and is widely published in the world's leading journals of law and philosophy.

The new man to occupy this most distinguished position in British theatre is 47-year-old Nicholas Hytner (plain Mr so far) and before he took the job he made it clear that he proposed to be a risk-taking director.

It seems to me that achieving the distinguished position of professor in the department of organismic biology, ecology and evolution at the University of California at Los Angeles, which is Ms. Gonzalez's occupation, makes a great argument in support of Mr. Bush's statement.