Sentence examples for had the distinction of being from inspiring English sources

That film also had the distinction of being the first Technicolor feature release.

Iraq had the distinction of being one of our last and shortest-lived colonies.

That man, Franklin Chin, had earlier had the distinction of being something of an unorthodox literary muse.

Seligman was the son of a New York banker and had the distinction of being tutored by Horatio Alger.

The prominent entertainment lawyer had the distinction of being both a liberal and the rare female clerk.

At 26 he had the distinction of being the youngest political cartoonist ever appointed to a national newspaper.

Under poets, the single example is Anna Akhmatova, the great Russian poet who had the distinction of being anti-Stalinist.

For a long time Macdonald had the distinction of being the West End's only female playwright bar Agatha Christie.

These photographs of the two most successful British pop groups of the Sixties were taken by Bob Bonis, who had the distinction of being road manager to both.

Mr. Evans had the distinction of being the first person to have a solo show at MoMA — in fact, the first and second.

Lipsky has a lighter touch throughout: "President Andrew Johnson had the distinction of being tried for violating a law that would later be recognized as unconstitutional".