Sentence examples for modest distinction from inspiring English sources

And that one modest distinction allowed us to answer the question we hadn't been able to answer for a decade".

Distance There and back, 3 miles At 1,394 ft, it has the modest distinction of being the tallest hill in this sudden igneous mini-range that runs down the border of Worcestershire and Herefordshire.

A retired chief executive, a politician whose career had run out of steam, a lawyer: a seat on a company board was a way to boost earnings and earn modest distinction.

This is a modest distinction — the 2009 election and its brutal aftermath were a fiasco — but underscores the important point that, unlike Assad's Syria, Iran is not a totalitarian society.

For decades, stories circulated in the jazz world that Dean Benedetti, a saxophonist of modest distinction, upon hearing Parker play in the mid-forties, threw his own horn into the sea and pledged himself to follow Parker everywhere he went, recording his hero's performances.

Amid the awards crowding the walls of Aaron Copland's former home in Cortlandt Manor, N.Y., hangs a neatly framed movie advertisement with a modest distinction of its own: The ad, from a 1961 issue of Variety, focuses its sales pitch on the composer, Copland, not the star or the director.

The retardations were modest yet a distinction was observed for batches with a heterogeneous versus a homogeneous substitution pattern.

As befits a recovery characterised by such fine gradations as the distinction between modest and moderate, there are a lot of caveats.

Completed in 1977, three years after Kahn's death, it achieves its distinction "by modest and subtle means," says Jules David Prown, the center's first director: "perfect proportions, sensitively matched materials, honest expression of structure".

The modest firm has the distinction of being the first VC to get into early stage seed investing through its Quick Start program, "We pioneered and successfully delivered on the "venture seed investor" model since 2006," Zachary tells me, "We were the first and now most other firms have attempted to clone our program when they mocked it".

In spite of his great distinction, he was modest and amusing in the classroom.