Sentence examples for attained eminence from inspiring English sources

With greater persistency of purpose, and closer application, Slidell might have become a luminary of science; with his clear conceptions and great command of language, by study and patience he could have been an author of no ordinary note; and had he continued in military instead of civil pursuits, he doubtless would have attained eminence in an army career.

He also challenged engineers to provide a decent quality of life for the world's disabled and underprivileged; and he was a respected teacher, with many of his former students attaining eminence in British and overseas industry.

Pardo Bazán attained early eminence with her polemical essay "La cuestión palpitante" (1883; "The Critical Issue").

By this time he had attained an eminence far beyond the world of academia.

The faculty of arts, down to the 14th century, scarcely attained equal eminence.

Archives|WOMAN LANDSCAPE GARDENER.; Miss Beatrix Jones Has Attained Her Eminence in the Profession by Hard Study and by Travel.

WOMAN LANDSCAPE GARDENER.; Miss Beatrix Jones Has Attained Her Eminence in the Profession by Hard Study and by Travel.

Despite his career as a criminal prosecutor, Judge Fuld attained national eminence for his concern for the rights of defendants.

George Lucas, who directed and wrote the movie, attained an eminence that settled somewhere between that of Lao-tzu and Alexander Graham Bell — the sage of Marin County as the ultimate inventor.

Ms. Genaux may not yet have attained the eminence of Farinelli, but she possesses a trait that is all too rare, even among so-called Baroque specialists: the ability to negotiate a fiendishly difficult bout of vocal fireworks accurately, on pitch and with a sense of enjoyment rather than abject terror.

Perceiving the advent of the Film Which Talks Like a Man, hundreds of movie stars who have attained their eminence because of a dimple in the chin or a bovine eye, but whose speaking voices could hardly be counted on to put across the sale of a pack of Fatimas in a night club, are now frantically trying to train their larynxes into some sort of gentility.