Sentence examples for gaining plaudits from inspiring English sources

Of these, the Maccabees are perhaps the most well-known, their third album Given to the Wild gaining plaudits for taking rock music into fresh territory.

Varmus served as Bill Clinton's director of the National Institutes of Health from 1993 to 1999, gaining plaudits when the government doubled the agency's budget.

Abraham spent three years at UKTV, the joint venture between Virgin Media and the BBC, gaining plaudits for the relaunch of the previously little-known UKTV G2 as Dave.

Now she plays bass and sings in a band called the Noisettes, a thrilling, energised trio that have only released one EP so far, but are already gaining plaudits as one of the best new live acts in the country.

The idea may sound kind of obvious, post-Jimmy Wales, but the site is already gaining plaudits, including winning the Shell Livewire Grand Ideas Award in August, along with a UCL Bright Ideas Award, which brought with it a small amount of funding in the form of a convertible loan.

Bloomsbury; £14.99 A remarkable debut by a Punjabi writer who has gained plaudits from Mohsin Hamid and Salman Rushdie.

BBC4, which launched Armando Iannucci's critically acclaimed comedy The Thick of It and gained plaudits for its Lost Decade season, attracts only 0.36% of the total television audience.

She gained plaudits for her first prime ministerial speech where she talked of the underachievement of "white working-class boys" and their low university attendance rates.

Of course, Mr. Dacey wrote "The Secular Conscience," published by Prometheus Books, a venerable secularist publisher, not to gain plaudits from Father Neuhaus but to strengthen secular liberalism.

Ms Davidson has gained plaudits for her down-to-earth personality and assured debating style, which was made apparent to voters in the televised sparring ahead of the general election.

The trust gains plaudits for the way it handles BBC crises over editorial deception and fake competitions, but critics say high-profile reviews of budgets and salaries failed to sufficiently hold management to account.