Sentence examples for infamous distinction from inspiring English sources

By Monday night, the Mendocino Complex Fire had earned an infamous distinction, becoming the largest wildfire ever recorded in the state, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire.

The sheer number of victims, which authorities estimate tops 1 million, likely earns Zeek the infamous distinction as the largest Ponzi scheme in history by the number of investors, and will add a layer of complexity never seen before in trying to unravel the scheme and distribute funds to investors.

And Dr. Patterson told the court that Mr. Hinckley felt he "would always be a celebrity," without understanding the distinction between famous and infamous.

A remake of Straw Dogs, in which Skarsgård has the dubious distinction of reprising the infamous rape scene with his now ex-girlfriend, Kate Bosworth, opens in the UK in November.

In the year since the police searched his apartment, Mr. Handler has the odd distinction of being the infamous graduate student at Princeton embroiled in a high-profile Russian espionage case.

It is the National Trust's most visited property, a distinction not unconnected with its infamous aristocratic, literary and lesbian associations.

This course is, in large part, an investigation into this distinction; it is, that is, an investigation into the infamous semantic-pragmatic distinction.

The film later enjoyed the distinction of being the only British entry on the infamous "video nasty" list compiled by the Department of Public Prosecutions.

An infamous example is a pair of cases offered by James Rachels to cast doubt on the moral significance of the distinction between killing and letting die.

The best way to begin getting a sense of what Lacan means by jouissance is through reference to the Lacanian distinction between drive and desire (see 2.4.2 above) in conjunction with select stipulations by Freud regarding the infamous death drive (Todestrieb) of Freud's later dual drive theory (first laid out in 1920's Beyond the Pleasure Principle).

While at Travelocity, he had the unusual distinction of being awarded a citation from the F.B.I. for work pursuing information about the transactions of an infamous Travelocity customer, Muhammad Atta, a 9/11 hijacker who used Travelocity.com to make reservations for air and car travel in the months leading up to the attacks.