Sentence examples for historic distinction from inspiring English sources

The historic distinction between the two types of telephones would vanish.

Nixon officials foreshadowed both the historic distinction and seamy underside of the presidency.

But as he prepared for the Democratic Convention Obama began to feel the weight of his historic distinction.

A Strauss soprano of potentially historic distinction, she succeeded in embodying the elusive spirit of the composer — a smoldering fire — which few of his contemporaries saw.

However, it was Georges Cuvier, a rabid antievolutionist, who in 1821 had the historic distinction of describing Adapis, the first fossil primate genus ever recognized.

Although neither an inspiring nor flawless leader, Sharif was fair-minded, and bears the historic distinction of helping secure his country's climb toward democracy, now hopefully inexorable.

The more typical renovation design in this period clearly distinguished the modern work from the historic, a distinction that often reads in today's eyes as violent.

An article in some editions on Wednesday about the approval of 21 skyscrapers and office buildings surrounding Borough Hall in Brooklyn as a historic district erroneously attributed a distinction to the building at 75 Livingston Street.

In contemporary Pakistan, the question of class distinction based on historic patterns of social interaction has become blurred by the tendency to pretend that one has lineage to a nobler ancestor.

The historic city has the added distinction of being the best business location in China, according to a survey published in the September edition of FORBES CHINA, the Chinese-language edition of FORBES magazine.

The distinction, which Mr. Obama called "historic," quickly made its way into news media reports around the globe, including in The New York Times.