Sentence examples for nationally notorious from inspiring English sources

His assignment was to rescue the faith of the Roman Catholics there whose children had been sexually violated by the Rev. Gilbert Gauthe, in the first nationally notorious case of a pedophile priest.

The Sex Pistols are nationally notorious, "the foul-mouthed yobs" who have sparked a tabloid feeding frenzy by the simple act of swearing, several times and with gusto, on a London area TV news show hosted by Bill Grundy.

The Colorado Springs incident was nationally notorious for about five days, until the Dec. 2 attack on the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California - by a Pakistani-American and his Pakistani wife - allowed most Americans to forget it.

The club's "football firm", originally known as the Chelsea Shed Boys, and subsequently as the Chelsea Headhunters, were nationally notorious for football violence, alongside hooligan firms from other clubs such as West Ham United's Inter City Firm and Millwall's Bushwackers, before, during and after matches.

The dense and gritty satellite town became notorious nationally as a "land without law".

In the summer of 1977, the Sex Pistols became nationally and internationally notorious.

The platform helped them win, set the legislative agenda and made Mr Gingrich nationally famous (or notorious).

For a mayor who is notorious nationally for coming on too strong, Mr. O'Connor fills the role of calm intermediary known among colleagues for helping find common ground away from the microphones of the council chambers.

Eminem's "8 Mile" was named after the avenue that separates Detroit's black and white citizens, a local border-zone in a bankrupt and nationally abandoned city that he made globally notorious.

For years, Long Islanders have been notorious for splitting their tickets, voting Republican locally but Democrat nationally or vice versa.

By contrast, Los Angeles County, the notorious butt of freeway-congestion jokes, was in a relatively respectable 252nd place nationally, neck and neck with Sullivan County, N.Y.