Sentence examples for gaining repute from inspiring English sources

That is, the poets are rhetoricians who are, as it were, selling their products to as large a market as possible, in the hope of gaining repute and influence.

It began to gain repute as a health and winter tourism resort in the 18th century.

(Pareles) MARTY SEXTON (Tonight) A hard-touring veteran of the late-1980's Boston folk scene, Marty Sexton writes heartfelt, autobiographical songs and has gained repute on the songwriter circuit.

He also gained repute for the pressure he exerted on Mrs Thatcher over the Westland helicopter crisis, which cost her two cabinet ministers, Michael Heseltine and Leon Brittan.

The annual Harare International Festival of the Arts HIFAA) was born in the comparative golden era of 1999 and weathered the nation's stormy decade of farm invasions, hyperinflation and political bloodshed to gain repute as "the Glastonbury of southern Africa".

In museums, artists encounter the great possibility of gaining global repute, but they risk entrance into a national narrative where elements of their identities are mitigated.

Pence was elected governor of his home state in 2012, but first gained national repute for signing the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in 2015.

Although two other poets who were to gain international repute, Salvatore Quasimodo and Eugenio Montale, were associated with the movement, its initial leader was Ungaretti, whose education in Paris had introduced him to French Symbolism.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Four months ago, the people of the Pakistani mountain village of Shalbandi gained national repute after a village posse hunted down and killed six Taliban fighters who had tied up and killed eight local policemen.

Local bands that gained wider repute include The Verve, The Railway Children, Witness, The Tansads, Limahl of Kajagoogoo and Starsailor.

The children of the Ramsay school not only have these in common with all others, but we have our own local hero who ahs gained national repute as a gentleman, scholar and last, but not least, a great athlete.