Sentence examples for illustrious place from inspiring English sources

Johnson, in his remarks, linked them (and himself, of course) to the Social Security Act and its "illustrious place in history," and he carefully recited an "honor roll" of fifteen congressional leaders who contributed to the bill's passage.

The area of Nilopolis in Rio's northern suburbs, far from its beaches and tourist attractions, is not only home to the Beija-Flor school, founded in 1948, with its illustrious place in samba history; it is also covered by a patchwork of favelas dominated by frequently warring drug gangs, including the notorious Comando Vermelho (Red Command), which has control of the Morro da Mina.

5.51pm GMT Jon Eley goes in the B Final, skating for the illustrious fifth place overall in the men's 500m.

His first step in rehabilitating himself was to find an American magic school, a relative rarity; some of the most renowned places to learn magic are state-sponsored schools in China and Korea, as well as an illustrious one in Madrid.

For a team with such an illustrious history, seventh place in the constructors' championship is never going to be the limit of their ambitions.

Spielplatz also has an illustrious past as the place where many "nudie" films of the 1950s and 60s were shot, including Nudist Paradise, Naked As Nature Intended, The Nudist Story, Sunswept and Some Like It Cool - directed by an ambitious young Michael Winner.

Fifth place, for the illustrious institute's director, was simply not good enough.

But it is Venice's most illustrious graveyard, the final resting place of Ezra Pound, Igor Stravinsky and other historic figures.

Bodychecking one opponent and using an arm into the face of another were by no means his most heinous of crimes he has perpetrated in soccer, but they surely should have no place in the illustrious aspirations of Real Madrid.

Peter Doherty in 1958 and Billy Bingham in 1982 and 1986, guided teams to World Cup finals, and O'Neill takes his place alongside those illustrious predecessors, after a campaign that saw an immense – if rather surprising – degree of warmth, zest and satisfaction.

Various city fathers had long been campaigning for a university, conscious that a place with as illustrious a history as York was crying out for a seat of serious learning.