Sentence examples for eminent was from inspiring English sources

Many observers thought an elderly ex-president, however eminent, was the wrong choice to lead this unprecedented effort to sort out big issues and end the sense of disconnection between ordinary people and the union.

But some of the most eminent are on the backbenches.

Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk"THE feeble beginnings of whatever afterwards becomes great or eminent are interesting to mankind".

Armenian instructors were drafted in and a host of official bands founded, the most eminent being the Imperial Bodyguard Band.

Regardless, it's fair to say that the days when credit cards ruled eminent are likely numbered.

"Everything came down to facts -- more than parliamentary skill or emotion or personality or intuition or chemistry or poetry or even wealth, pre-eminent was the raw data that comprised information".

Pre-eminent is Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers (Allen Lane, £30).

Eminent Victorians was Strachey's counter-assault.

As any English major could tell you, the literary output of eminent Victorians was prodigious.

(Durant, the Thunder's most eminent alum, was recently caught seemingly directing his own defense on Twitter).

Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the eminent pathologist, was held in reverent esteem by the police and courts.