Sentence examples for distinguished second from inspiring English sources

Though Reginald Levy, who has died aged 88, was a former RAF bomber pilot with a distinguished second world war record, his most celebrated moment in the air came quite unexpectedly in 1972.

She has had a distinguished second career as a psychologist who specializes in treating abused children and women in prison (and she continued to act into the 1990s, including in "The Joy Luck Club," of 1993).

Of these three, posterity has largely forgotten von Baer, who suffered a severe mental breakdown in the 1830's, but then recovered and moved to Russia (not uncommon for a German-speaking Estonian national), where he enjoyed a distinguished second university career, largely in anthropology and lasting well into the 1870's.

Several trends are emerging: first, increasing labelling density with multiplexed markers to allow more cells to be reliably distinguished; second, using labels to report lineage relationships among defined cells in addition to anatomy; third, coupling cell labelling with genetic manipulations that reveal or perturb cell function.

She is already a distinguished first lady.

Dr. Bendersky had a distinguished first career at Hahnemann University in Philadelphia.

(Ages 3+) Christmas Eve at the Mellops by Tomi Ungerer (Phaidon £6.95), an elegant reprint of a 1970s tale, features four pigs with distinguished first names: Casimir, Isidor, Felix and Ferdinand.

Having got a distinguished first, O'Hanlon was briefly a don, but was sacked after he taught his students literature from the wrong century.

Even Sir Joshua Reynolds, the RA's distinguished first president, felt so insulted by his fellows that he resigned from the post and the RA until King George III persuaded him to change his mind.

In his 30 years at the Maine paper's helm -- in effect a fully completed second career on top of a distinguished first one -- circulation rose to 11,000 from 3,000, over 5,000 more than Ellsworth's population.

Ali Smith pulls it off with terrific verve in this novel, which is a skilful exercise in free indirect style: the characters are not first-person narrators, but lovingly distinguished third-person points of view.