Sentence examples for make a distinguished from inspiring English sources

Mr. Lazio's dress-down attire and the warm setting evoke the comfort he wants people to feel about him, though some might say he appears a bit casual at a time when he is trying make a distinguished impression among voters who, according to recent polls, hardly know him.

Alyssa Milano Alyssa Milano's determined efforts to leave behind her best-known role as the child star on the US sitcom Who's the Boss and make a distinguished film career for herself never quite came to fruition, and she has since returned back to her small-screen origins in shows such as Charmed.

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.

Michael Rouse articulates the devilish lowlife that is Jigger Craigin, and John Woodvine makes a distinguished Starkeeper.

The selected composers made a distinguished yet eclectic group: Hans Werner Henze, Kaija Saariaho, Giya Kancheli, John Corigliano, Somie Satoh and Thomas Adès.

The novelist William March made a distinguished literary contribution in his stories and novels in the 1930s and '40s, particularly Company K and The Looking Glass.

Richter made a distinguished save on Rob Niedermayer late in the first period, but less than a half-minute later the Panthers scored.

Only stereotypes, she argues, prevent women from achieving parity, a view borne of her own experience 50 years ago, when the only job a law firm offered her, after she made a distinguished record at Stanford Law School, was as a legal secretary.

Colonel Propp, as she was known to her former Army colleagues, was made a distinguished member of the corps at a banquet in her honor in April 1999 at the Judge Advocate General's School in Charlottesville, Va.

Charlie Peters, the widely admired editor of The Washington Monthly who has made a distinguished career of telling the stark truth about meek and mighty alike in the name of better government, is one of the voices currently critiquing Walsh for publishing such blunt details.