Sentence examples for distinguished forebears from inspiring English sources

Disraeli later romanticised his origins, claiming that his father's family was of grand Spanish and Venetian descent; in fact Isaac's family was of no great distinction, but on Disraeli's mother's side, in which he took no interest, there were some highly distinguished forebears.

Marion King, whose own distinguished forebears included Elihu Yale and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, seems to have observed the same social code.

On this evening, in what's billed as "So Percussion's International Night of Awesome ness)," the group shares the stage with distinguished forebears from the pioneering Canadian group Nexus, as well as contemporaries and followers.

What Ms. O'Donnell shares with her distinguished forebears is an ability to shape an easy rapport with an audience, to honor the audience by being the embodiment of their values and aspirations -- a singular talent indeed.

In the wake of the New Wave discoveries of the 1950's and the 1960's, the French cinema has more recently been buoyed by a new generation of film makers - Maurice Pialat, Bertrand Tavernier, Andre Techine and Bertrand Blier among them - whose work is arguably just as powerful and idiosyncratic as that of their distinguished forebears.

Betty's antecedents were mixed: she was maternally descended from Northern Germany, yet on her father's side she was of Norwegian origin a distinguished forebear on that side was her great-grandfather, the civil servant Jens Holmboe from Tromsø.

An article published in the Winchester Star in 1967 said of McDonald, "fearsome or not, he founded in the Shenandoah Valley a dynasty of military men as distinguished as their forebears had been in the Scottish Highlands".

She was nominated three times for Golden Globes for her work on the show, and attributed its success to the characters' relative poverty and working-class backgrounds, which distinguished it from aspirational forebears such as The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Until lately, evolutionary biologists believed that the genus Homo was distinguished from its apelike forebears by an "adaptive package" that included bigger brains and bodies, smaller teeth, bipedalism, and tool use.

This isn't to diminish the contribution of his forebears and contemporaries; but what distinguished Shakespeare from someone like, say, Sir John Davies, was the maturity of his means.

Homo erectus, whose early form in Africa is sometimes called Homo ergaster, is distinguished by physiological and neurological changes from its australopithecine forebears, including a considerably larger brain, smaller teeth and an upright gait.