Sentence examples for local notoriety from inspiring English sources

I had local notoriety".

By doing so, I had earned some local notoriety.

Twain earned local notoriety cranking out newspaper columns in Nevada and San Francisco (often for Harte, whom he had befriended), but in 1865 he had his nationwide breakthrough.

He made some local notoriety for himself aged 25 railing against the council wasting money on "frilly bits as opposed to the basics".

Her sweet shop, on Old Town's Romero Road, rose to local notoriety in the 1980s when she started selling erotic confectionery.

That Rosa Parks went to school, fell in love, got married, didn't have children and during her 15 minutes of local notoriety lost her job.

Crocodile bile gets blamed because of its notoriety in local poison traditions and lore.

The demolition of the mosque earned Ayodhya a notoriety which locals say they want to bury by embracing the court judgement.

The American troops were sent to the Philippines to help their Filipino counterparts fight Abu Sayyaf, a band of Islamic radicals who gained notoriety for kidnapping local residents and foreigners.

Upon my relocation to the New York area, I was quickly reminded of why local motorists had developed such notoriety throughout the country and beyond.

According to historian Michael Provence, al-Kharrat was "ideal" for the job, possessing "a local following of young men, notoriety outside the quarter, good connections and a reputation for toughness".