Sentence examples for heavyweight reputation from inspiring English sources

Skream, like Lennon, is annoyed that disco doesn't have the heavyweight reputation of its near-relation, funk.

Somewhere in between the veterans and the tyros is Dumbarton-born writer Stuart MacBride, who for a decade has been building up a heavyweight reputation with his novels featuring tough copper Logan McRae.

Many heavyweight reputations of Morton's contemporaries have sunk.

Harmison and Lara had resumed their heavyweight (in reputation) bout, in what was an enthralling over; Lara copping a little bit of chin music, followed by a well disguised slower ball that he had to dig out, and then by Lara flaying Harmison to the fence on consecutive balls, before the beanpole quick had the final say.

He could adopt global accounting rules, reveal and simplify its ownership and appoint as directors global heavyweights with reputations to lose who can subject Reliance to scrutiny.

ALEKS KROTOSKI Academic, journalist Often marginalised as a "girl geek", Krotoski, who once presented computer game shows for Channel 4, is more heavyweight than her reputation suggests.

Today it banks its reputation on heavyweight opera productions.

He is like a cruiserweight champion moving up to heavyweight, content for his reputation to suffer a scratch in exchange for even greater glories.

But one theme is clear: These were the years when Volcker became an international financial heavyweight and developed a reputation as a public servant of the very highest probity.

He acquired a reputation as a heavyweight operator called upon by Tony Blair to sort out troubled departments.

It is her interpretations of Bob Dylan, however, which, while naturally infuriating the odd hardcore Dylan purist, have done the most to earn her reputation as a heavyweight artist with a light touch, capable of breathing new life into material that never seemed to need it.