Sentence examples for gained brief from inspiring English sources

He gained brief notoriety that year after emailing to a tea party group an image depicting then-President Barack Obama in tribal dress with a bone through his nose.

Mr. Gilbert is majority owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers of the N.B.A., and gained brief national fame when the team's star, LeBron James, announced in 2010 that he was decamping for the Miami Heat.

A woman who gained brief fame by flashing her breasts at a Google Street View car has been charged by police, who say that her actions "were the same as someone flashing their genitals".

Roosh gained brief international infamy this week when he attempted to organise meetings for Return of Kings readers in more than 100 cities worldwide and was met with ridicule and disgust.

Frustrated and infuriated by his lack of action on her behalf and his cruelty towards her, and in the grip of a paranoia which developed into schizophrenia, she shot him in 1968 (not fatally) and gained brief fame.

This book ostensibly attempts to rescue from obscurity the blackface performer and minstrel singer Emmett Miller, who gained brief fame in the twenties and thirties, and who left behind only a handful of recordings at his death, in 1962.

Foundation Year 2 and General Practice trainees (junior doctors gaining brief experience in psychiatry as part of non-psychiatric training) participated alongside trainees pursuing a career in psychiatry.

Young rejoined Basie's band in 1944 which gained him brief popular recognition before being drafted into the army.

She brushed him off, after he'd gained a brief, delicious sensation of her long knobbed spine beneath his fingers, and staggered to the toilet to finish her heaves.

A 19th century traveller, visiting a few years earlier, described the annual festival that was held on the summit of the hill: The hill gained a brief military significance in 1849 when it was used as the site of an Italian gun battery, under the command of Giuseppe Garibaldi, in the successful defence of Rome against an attacking French army.

Thus will the fainting sons of the Achaeans gain some brief breathing-time, which in battle may hardly be". Iris left him when she had so spoken.