Sentence examples similar to became a first rate from inspiring English sources

Initially, he wanted approval; along the way, he became a first-rate performer himself.

He became a first-rate scholar and published a little book of poems, Ghaselen (1821; "Ghazals"), in which he imitated the style of his friend Friedrich Rückert.

"The vice presidency became a second-rate office, something to which only second-rate men would aspire," Mr. Tally wrote in "Bland Ambition: From Adams to Quayle," and he said that Clinton led the parade of mediocrity.

Robert Niemi states that Stroud had a "superior intellect," and became a "first-rate ornithologist and author," but was an "extremely dangerous and menacing psychopath, disliked and distrusted by his jailers and fellow inmates".

He believes an elected second chamber would become a "third rate legislature".

Let's not become a second rate copy of some apocalyptical flick.

"America has become a second rate power," Gekko tells a room full of rich suckers, before presenting himself as the only hope to raise the nation up again.

They almost seem to want the U.S. to become a second rate country -- because they can't tolerate the reality that to compete in today's world we need a strong, effective federal government.

You, who might have become a first-rate social worker.

Louisville (2-0) at No. 2 Florida State (3-0) Chris Weinke of Florida State has become a first-rate passer.

Indeed, it is clear had she continued, Kagan probably would have become a first-rate historian.