Sentence examples for in the esteem from inspiring English sources

And we sink in the esteem of the world.

Jazz was not always held in the esteem it is today.

There is, though, a startling disparity in the esteem with which Gorby is held in the West and his reputation at home.

Toward the end of the Supreme Court's argument in Gill v. Whitford, about the future of partisan gerrymandering, there was a revealing moment about the place of the newest Justice in the esteem of at least one of his peers.

Thomas O'Connor, a church trustee, said in 1840 that the new building "is not only a great convenience to ourselves, but an ornament to the city, elevating the Catholics, both as men and as Christians, in the esteem and respect of their dissenting brethren".

With such a safeguard, "talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity, may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single State; but it will require other talents, and a different kind of merit, to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union," Alexander Hamilton wrote, in Federalist No. 68.

Then came the coronation of Burger King, a dark day that wilted the ivy in the esteemed college town.

Barack Obama turns fifty today, placing him in the esteemed company of other celebrities such as Wayne Gretzky, Ricky Gervais, and Eddie Murphy.

Available from Friday Extra Gear Following in the esteemed foosteps of er, Take Me Out and Big Brother, the revamped Top Gear has been given it's own spinoff show.

The jokes are not so much offensive as puerile, although in the esteemed tradition of Carry On films and saucy postcards.

But McGeer claims that trust grounded in the "esteem-seeking mechanism" of wanting others' good opinion is not rational because it is not dependable; as soon as the trustees see it for what it is a cunning attempt to get them to behave in a certain way they will refuse to live up to it (252).