Sentence examples for a few eminent from inspiring English sources

A brief period of "white terror" in the south claimed some 300 victims; in Paris, many high officials who had rallied to Napoleon were dismissed, and a few eminent figures, notably Marshal Michel Ney, were tried and shot.

Led by former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford and populated by notables from both major parties (with a few eminent civilians thrown in), the commission endorsed an array of election reforms that will not rock many boats.

"There is no problem, with a million-quid lure to hook a few eminent scientists, to say that they personally see no conflict between science and religion, but they are suffering from a form of intellectual schizophrenia," he said.

His state having required utilities to sell their plants, Governor Davis now proposes to ban further sales and even threatens to take back a few by eminent domain, from whoever now owns them.

The Roman Catholic church had very few eminent intellectuals known and respected as such outside its own ranks.

But a few things make eminent sense.

More than a few sprang from somewhere eminent (like Harvard) and were destined for prominent futures.

A great death, as it were, among a city of great births: the painters William Rothenstein and David Hockney, the composer Frederick Delius, the writer JB Priestley, the physicist and Nobel laureate Sir Edward Appleton – to name only a few of the many eminent baby Bradfordians.

There are a few female lives, too: some eminent in their own right, others married to or fathered by famous men, outstandingly beautiful, or simply "wondrous wanton".

Development and quarrying threats to the Metacomet Ridge have resulted in public open space acquisition efforts through collective purchasing and fundraising, active solicitation of land donations, securing of conservation easements, protective and restrictive legislation agreements limiting development, and, in a few cases, land taking by eminent domain.

Let us see if your eminent father has a few supplies... " They spend the next hour lifting the prints.