"She's only the second woman ever to be Lord Mayor of London and the very least the honours system could do would be to honour a woman who's got such a distinguished post".
"The very least that the honours system could do would be to honour a woman who has got such a distinguished post.
As a local and national leader, Stead held many distinguished posts, including president of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians, founding member of the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine, chairman of the American Heart Association's Ethics Committee, and honorary fellow of the American College of Cardiology.
The University of Gloucestershire has announced he will fill "one of its most distinguished posts", the Portland chair in New Testament studies.
After his one term in the White House ended in 1981, Carter went on to the longest, and one of the most distinguished, post-presidential careers in history.
The resulting high specific surface area nanotubular solids were further modified by two distinguished post-treatments: (i) heat-treatment in the temperature range from 300 to 700 °C, and (ii) peroxide-treatment at room temperature.
Do you think this is what Huntsman told himself when he quit his distinguished post as ambassador to China? ("Diplomacy is all well and good, but I believe I was meant for greater things. Like being the Rick Santorum of New Hampshire").
Sir Nicholas Henderson, an urbane, gregarious and often flamboyant diplomat who labored to win the Reagan administration's backing for Britain's military campaign to recover the Falkland Islands and was considered by many of his peers to be one of Britain's most distinguished post-war diplomats, died on Monday in London, family members said.
He had been appointed to a distinguished yet powerless post in exchange for taking a series of progressive positions. .
Derek Walcott has accepted a post as a distinguished scholar at the University of Alberta.
After a traditional dragon dance, performed across the front of the stage by the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, Long Yu, a distinguished conductor who holds prominent posts with several Chinese orchestras, opened the program with "Spring Festival Overture" by Li Huanzhi.
