Sentence examples for achieved this distinction from inspiring English sources

No other gymnast has achieved this distinction.

This daughter of "mad, bad and dangerous to know" Lord Byron achieved this distinction despite the fierce prejudices of the 19th Century.

He achieved this distinction in 1986 after going through a NASA training program and becoming the first sitting member of the House of Representatives to travel into space, in his case aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia.

In 1995, an Australian red wine, Penfolds Grange, won the Wine Spectator award for Wine of the Year, the first time a wine from outside France or California achieved this distinction.

Rendering Chopin's nocturne no 7 Op27 in C# minor would achieve this distinction.

The honour he was most proud of was being made a Fellow of the Royal Society – the only amateur astronomer to achieve this distinction, but he was also made a knight in 2001.

During the Kumbh Mela Mallinson was to be raised to the rank of mahant by his guru Babaji, although there was some grumbling in the ranks about a foreigner achieving this distinction.

On May 20th India's president, Pratibha Patil, therefore reappointed Manmohan Singh prime minister, making him the first prime minister to achieve this distinction at the end of a five-year term since India's first, Jawaharlal Nehru.Congress itself won 206 seats.

In her gracious acceptance speech, this second-generation American from South Indian parents acknowledged the exceptional nature of her achievement: "I am so glad that this organization has embraced diversity by selecting me as the first Indian-American to achieve this distinction.

All articles have the ability to become Rising Stars, but only certain articles will achieve this distinction.

It's a rare situation where one person can be both the most impressive and the most disappointing in the same time period, but Barack Obama has indeed achieved this dubious distinction this week.