Sentence examples for become models of from inspiring English sources

In a generation they have been weaned off chewing-gum, learnt Mandarin and become models of courtesy.

I've noticed that doctors otherwise prone to bullying will tend to become models of civility when other doctors are around.

"This is to reform the entire system and to give SUNY and CUNY the flexibility they need to become models of excellence," Ms. Shorenstein said.

And almost as soon as the words "civil disobedience" were out of his mouth, Mr. Clinton, moderating a panel that Mr. Gore shared with the singer Bono (with him below), the president of Liberia, the chairman of Coca-Cola and Queen Rania of Jordan, turned to the queen to ask whether Middle Eastern countries might ever become "models of clean energy usage".

The war's image has undergone an overhaul as time has soothed society's bitterness, as movies and television have depicted Vietnam veterans as sympathetic victims or admirable warriors, and as politicians and business leaders with solid Vietnam records have become models of success and dignity.

He notes, for example, that more than 20 years ago the board began "benchmarking" Pemex's refineries against international peers, but they have remained at the bottom of the league even as parts of Mexico's manufacturing industry have become models of efficiency.With 151,000 employees, Pemex's output of oil per worker is well short of that of its foreign counterparts (see chart).

John Belushi and Chris Farley powered through their brief lives in a bloated whirl and became models of self-destructive hedonism.

American circuses thus became models of logistic efficiency, their methods leading to the creation of the modern system of rail-truck freight handling.

At Motown, in the early sixties, the wildly popular performers of a stream of crossover hits became models of black achievement but had virtually no contact with the movement at all.

The Kurds are unlikely to feel contented in any of these countries, even if their governments became models of moderation, without a generous measure of autonomy in the regions in which they predominate.

Engaged by the U.S. to show the Russians how the West controls corruption, the advisers became models of what to avoid.