Sentence examples for made distinguished from inspiring English sources

This system has created a small elite, who have made distinguished cultural contributions.

He joined the faculty of Seton Hall in 1965 and was made distinguished university professor in 1975.

Many of Ohio's small independent colleges have made distinguished contributions to the state and have pioneered in education in various ways.

From these humble beginnings, Stock-Morton charts d'Agoult's evolution into what the critic Sainte-Beuve called a "monster of ambition" who first wrote bad fiction and then made distinguished contributions to the French liberal opposition press.

We may see here, in Shostakovich's Symphonies Nos. 4 and 15, though the actual conductor is the Dutch maestro Bernard Haitink, who made distinguished recordings of all the Shostakovich symphonies with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra a couple of decades ago and will undoubtedly arrive with clear notions of his own.

In 1991, she won the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy, given to women who have made distinguished contributions to the field.

In exchange for what he called the "privilege" of making distinguished films, "you have to deliver, and should deliver, for the shareholders".

They are now awarded for prominent national or regional roles and to those making distinguished or notable contributions in their own specific areas of activity.

He had an almost unrivalled sense of what made a distinguished and sellable book.

In 2010 she was made a distinguished fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society.

Outside the cinema, novelists have made equally distinguished use of heat.