Sentence examples for distinguished spell from inspiring English sources

Before his recent successes with Newell's (named after Isaac Newell, an English immigrant who played a key role in their formation in 1903), Martino enjoyed a distinguished spell in charge of the Paraguayan national team, leading them to the last eight of the 2010 World Cup finals and the final of the 2011 Copa America, where they were well beaten by a Luis Suarez-inspired Uruguay.

Professor Lee, who joined Microsoft last year after a distinguished academic career and a spell at the US defence agency DARPA, insists the labs are having an impact on a daily basis.

Lam represented New Zealand in a tour match before going on to captain Samoa in a distinguished playing career which included spells with Newcastle Falcons and Northampton Saints, where he lifted the Heineken Cup.

Forbes Media's chief product officer has a distinguished CV as a print journalist, with spells at the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Newsweek – and a memory he admits is long enough to include a newspaper strike in New York in 1977.

Doubts circulate about Mr Pandit's credentials for the role, despite his distinguished career in investment banking at Morgan Stanley, a spell running his own hedge fund and a reputation for cerebral calm.

A lifelong socialist — he had joined a socialist-Zionist youth group in Belgium before fleeing with his father — this young man goes on to a distinguished career as a writer and teacher, including a spell as a professor at Brandeis University.

Aged 63, Ranieri has a colourful CV that includes spells working for some of the most distinguished clubs in European football.

The modern English spelling of the village's name is 'Ockham', although because of the distinguished prominence of several French medievalists early in the twentieth century, one still occasionally sees the spelling 'Occam'Occam

After a spell as a personnel officer she moved into research and became an expert in industrial organisation and a distinguished social scientist with a central concern about the practical use and application of the social sciences.

A distinguished fiction writer.

as "distinguished persons".