Sentence examples for more distinguished of from inspiring English sources

As far as is known the book remained at Durham for the remainder of the Middle Ages, until the Dissolution, kept as a relic in three bags of red leather, normally resting in a reliquary, and there are various records of it being shown to visitors, the more distinguished of which were allowed to hang it round their neck for a while.

More distinguished for insight into problems of government and cool logic than for eloquence, these works became a classic statement of American governmental, and more generally of republican, theory.

Leguía was a member of one of the more distinguished families of the Peruvian oligarchy.

It may be Pavarotti that everyone will go to see, but this is in fact one of the more distinguished revivals of this show in recent memory.

She was awarded an Oxford DPhil by thesis in 1947 and the much more distinguished degree of DSc in 1973, for a portfolio of distinguished papers.

The controlled nature of Quora's version of AMA could attract a more distinguished caliber of author.

Relevance is here defined relative to a given set of clauses S and one or more distinguished sets of support T.

28 in number; more distinguished names of its membership tolls than any organization that we can think of: Elihu Root, General Harbord, and others.

"I would have greatly preferred if the CNN, ABC and 'Get Jiro!' announcements all happened spread over a more distinguished period of time.

For such a golden opportunity to pick their own future voters, Albany's legislators should provide this year's voters with a larger and more distinguished list of accomplishments.

It's surely no accident that this past generation, roughly 1980 to 2010, has seen more distinguished artists of all stripes accept peerages, knighthoods and other establishment baubles, from (Sir) William Golding (1988) to (Sir) Stephen Spender (1983), whose celebrated line "I think continually of those who were truly great" now has a rather hollow ring to it.