Sentence examples for great distinguished from inspiring English sources

"Three months earlier, [Gingrich] had said Bob Mueller is one of the great distinguished public servants that we have," Brokaw said.

Booth was successful in enlisting the open support of a great many distinguished and wealthy public figures, and the first national drive in 1919 raised $16 million.

Ranke's concept and writing of history predominated in German historiography up to World War I and even after; it also influenced a great many distinguished foreign historians who studied in Germany.

But such is the paucity of material in his party for the formation of a government, that compared with all the others, he stands out alone as a great and distinguished statesman.

Hunter College mourns the loss of a great visionary and distinguished public servant.

At the water entrance to the piazzetta is the Molo, a broad stone quay that was once the ceremonial landing spot for great officials and distinguished visitors.

It is with profound sadness that the Hunter College community mourns the loss of a great humanitarian and distinguished alumna whose generosity and keen interest in students and faculty extended to the labs and classrooms of her beloved alma maters, Hunter College and Hunter College High School.

For not believing in evolution, for being as narrow-minded and mean-spirited as Scrooge on Christmas, for assuming that all American IQs were no higher than your shoe size, for thinking you could do a Houdini with shockingly expensive couturier fashions, for making the great Joe Biden, a distinguished, solid, national treasure, look and seem even more treasurable.

One need hardly be a prophet to envision his postwar life as a teacher of history back in his native Illinois, a foreshadowing of his great-grandson's distinguished career.

Hatfield also became one of the great houses in which distinguished visitors were entertained.

Instead of great regional companies with distinguished records - Granada Television being a case in point - we have one amorphous mass.