Sentence examples for distinguished and influential from inspiring English sources

Miller was one of the Society's most distinguished and influential leaders, guiding the organization into the 21st century.

In the two series here, one known as "Interactions" and the other collectively titled "On Sight," he traces an aesthetic lineage directly back to Wassily Kandinsky, one of Russia's most distinguished and influential modernists.

And yet while even relatively conservative figures such as Simon Jenkins, Max Hastings and Geoffrey Wheatcroft show an admirable and essential pragmatism, many distinguished and influential commentators of the liberal-left, while pronouncing on jihad and Islam, seem reluctant to engage with the lives or views of ordinary Muslims.

Consider, for example, that distinguished (and influential) body, the Royal Society, founded in 1660; 96.3% of its Fellows in 2001 are men.

COX--LaWanda Fenlason, who passed away February 2 , 2005 in her home in New York City at the age of 95, was one of the most distinguished, respected, and influential historians of her generation.

If we learn one lesson from the sinking of the Japanese trawler Ehime Maru by the submarine Greeneville, let it be that we should end the practice of using submarines, ships, planes and tanks to provide joy rides to wealthy and influential "distinguished visitors".

We read of "political voyeurs who made carefully choreographed tours of the tyrant's domains with return tickets in hand," of how "distinguished professors, gifted poets and influential journalists summoned their talents to convince all who would listen that modern tyrants were liberators".

A distinguished, influential and visionary pedagogue and violinist, Miss Behrend dedicated much of her life to disseminating educational ideas of Dr. Shinichi Suzuki.

Throughout a long and distinguished career as influential policymaker, educator and administrator, Julius Edelstein was an unrelenting advocate of public higher education and of the City University of New York.

Ito (who will receive his medal in a May ceremony at Boston's John F. Kennedy Presidential Library) is a seventy-one-year-old Japanese architect with a distinguished forty-year record of substantial and influential buildings, some of them much admired.

He was the most distinguished, influential and elegant music journalist in the UK and US for 50 years, most of them spent working at the Financial Times, the New Yorker and finally the Observer.