Sentence examples for historically renowned from inspiring English sources

He makes Pontius Pilate, historically renowned for his brutality, a reflective and sensitive soul.

At least 100 civic figures are understood to have been arrested in Tabriz, a city historically renowned for political protest and where Mousavi has strong support.

And while the nurses there receive their initial training from a nonprofit group that Olds founded for the purpose, the program is run by the Louisiana state government, an institution not historically renowned for its idealism in matters of social policy.

Paris is historically renowned as a capital of style and a commercial metropolis, which can easily be used as a basis to develop urban branding strategies for promoting tourism.

The community of Kulamawe was historically renowned for the breeding of small stock and camels, while the Merti community formed part of the Uaso Nyiro River floodplain production system.

In this cosmopolitan university city historically renowned for its intelligentsia, support for the rebels is significantly weaker than in the rest of eastern Ukraine.

Tel Aviv lacks remarkable natural features and historically was not renowned for its architecture.

The formation of this department at Fisk was made possible by a $200,000 contribution from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial for whom Spelman College, the renowned historically Black college for women in Atlanta, GA is also named (Gasman 1999, 6).

Historically, they have been renowned as metalworkers, producing the wavy-bladed kris ceremonial swords and other weapons, as well as gongs.

"Historically the police here are renowned for corruption and physical violence against graffiti artists.

Historically, the Golconda region was renowned for its diamonds, derived from the conglomerate rocks of the nearby hills, including the world-famous Koh-i-noor diamond.