Sentence examples for eminent citizens from inspiring English sources

Some eminent citizens promised to emigrate if the plant was built.

In 1995 a self-appointed panel of eminent citizens, co-ordinated by the current law minister, Shafique Ahmed, compiled "evidence" on individuals they accused of war crimes.

Contarini family, distinguished Venetian family, one of the 12 that elected the first doge in 697 and later gave Venice eight doges and many other eminent citizens.

Embattled faith Other men's wars What the world is reading A real grouch ReprintsIN THEIR reflections on a new century, British Marxism's two most senior and eminent citizens will not disturb the rest of this newspaper's readership.

One way to bridge the trust gap with the public might be through the establishment of a council of eminent citizens who can mediate between civil society and the governing regime as the transition takes place.

Within its grounds can be found imposing monuments to eminent citizens of the 19th century, dotted among which are smaller simple headstones of public burials, hidden in the undergrowth along country lanes of a bygone era.

IN the death of Vernon Lyman Kellogg, which took place at Hartford sanitorium (Conn). on August 8 last, the United States loses an eminent citizen and one who was a leading figure in the scientific life of that country.

Tiberius Gracchus, the son of Tiberius Gracchus, an illustrious and eminent citizen, and the grandson, on his mother's side, of Scipio Africanus, had been quaestor in the army of Mancinus and had negotiated the treaty.

Defoe had no reservations about dealing in scandal A few months into the paper's run, he imagined an array of possible targets, such as "a drunken Justice fallen into the Mill-pond, or an eminent Citizen taken with a Twelve-penny Whore," or "a Magistrate stabbing a Man into the Back in the Dark, or a Man of Letters corresponding with our Enemies abroad.

One of the town's pre-eminent citizens, Asa Packer, who was a railroad tycoon, founded Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa.

Despite these origins, sport was able like no other institution to endorse the idea of cohesion across classes, albeit under the watchful eye of Australia's pre-eminent citizens.