Sentence examples for formerly revered for from inspiring English sources

Poor Columbus, formerly revered for discovering the New World, now has Native American protests on the holiday named after him.

Enron was once revered for revolutionising the energy business.

Eventually Yongzheng chose to place primary blame for the anti-Qing discontent on a formerly revered Confucian scholar named Lu Liuliang, already dead.

Now she is revered for her expertise.

A hafiz is revered for memorising the entire text.

Apart from his play, Iniesta is revered for his humanity.

Some I already revered for their supreme coolness (Norman Mailer, Hunter Thompson, Tom Wolfe).

She prefers to be revered for her irreverence.

The child was to be revered for its own sake.

He was revered for his integrity selflessness, and diligence.

He was, in addition, revered for his expressive calligraphy.