Sentence examples for like the eminent from inspiring English sources

Almost invariably, these new limits on the franchise were fueled by partisan interests and ethnic or racial tensions; they were embraced by respectable Americans, like the eminent historian Francis Parkman, who had come to view universal suffrage as a "questionable blessing".

The only Egyptian mortal besides the 18th-dynasty sage and minister Amenhotep to attain the honour of total deification, Imhotep is still held in esteem by physicians who, like the eminent 19th-century British practitioner Sir William Osler, consider him "the first figure of a physician to stand out clearly from the mists of antiquity".

A Scully eight-track recorder was used to record instruments like the Eminent 310 (with an Electro-Harmonix Small Stone phaser on its string pads) and the Korg Minipops drum machine.

Ms. Vishnevskaya and Rostropovich began associating with Soviet dissidents like Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov, the eminent nuclear physicist who became a human-rights activist.

First staged provocatively in the election year 2010 at the Royal Court Theater, "Posh," which has been transplanted to the West End at the Duke of York's Theater, dares to portray a notorious exclusive dinner club that appears to be awfully like one to which the eminent statesmen David Cameron and Boris Johnson had belonged in their, er, salad days.

Like Mr. McEwan he had the eminent Tom Maschler as an editor and got to know Martin Amis and Ian Hamilton.

Rather, he treats the eminent conductor like vile scum; he might as well be interrogating Goebbels himself.

But his crudely drawn American characters, so un-Southern in their rudeness, treat the eminent Dr. Hunter like dirt and seem to view his native Britain as some poky developing nation.

Turner looks like the pre-eminent Victorian: ruddy-cheeked, mutton-chopped, pop-eyed like a Toby jug or the figurehead on a ship's prow.

Greg Devereaux, chief executive of San Bernardino county, one of the municipalities, says public support was not particularly forthcoming.But like a movie monster, the eminent-domain proposal is back, and apparently stronger than ever.

Nor, as Terry Teachout suggests, was Armstrong anything like those "eminent Victorians," marching with blinders on toward dull, dreary respectability.