Sentence examples for notoriety around from inspiring English sources

But in May 2013, Ford gained notoriety around the world after reports emerged of a video showing him inhaling from a crack pipe.

Jewstown enjoyed a brief notoriety around the time of the Battle of Monmouth (1778), appearing on several Revolutionary War maps and referred to in Gen. Henry Clinton's memoir of the Monmouth campaign.

This event, along with the eight-hour militancy of McCormick workers, had gained the strikers some respect and notoriety around the city.

That year, in 1994, he committed a crime that would briefly give him notoriety around the world.

From the moment a military technician captured a photograph of a UFO hovering over the forest in 1968, Hoia-Baciu has gained paranormal notoriety around the world.

He is a Boston based American Expressionist who has gained notoriety around the world as his collections have been featured in museums like the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the George Bush Presidential Library in Houston.

The Long Island Lolita story would become a local cultural touchstone along with such dubious distinctions as mall culture and big hair, and Joey was basking in his notoriety, driving around town in his white Cadillac, roaring across the bay in his big yellow speedboat, "Double Trouble," and calling in regularly to "The Howard Stern Show".

But Mr. Saipov achieved a different sort of notoriety on Oct. 24 when around 7 p.m., while waiting for a taxi with a friend on one of the main thoroughfares here, a gunman stepped out of the tree-lined darkness and shot him in the leg, according to news reports.

Nassau's system gained notoriety among assessment professionals around the nation.

A terrifying clown gaining notoriety for ominously standing around the streets of Northampton, U.K., has spoken to the media, while a self-described "clown catcher" is in hot pursuit.

His work, particularly with women who have suffered fistulas, has attracted acclaim, awards and millions of dollars from individuals and organisations around the world.This notoriety has also given Dr Mukwege a platform from which to speak his mind, and he is often critical of those in power.