Sentence examples for of high standing from inspiring English sources

Pools of high standing water are apparent all around the region.

Doreh and Khadar were men of high standing who had publicly condemned the Shabaab.

The intensive major The intensive major is for students of high standing who are qualified to do sustained independent and original work in music research or in composition.

Hanging on the walls are strange paintings by Sickert, an artist of high standing and founder of the Camden Town Group (later known as the London Group).

Dieckmann is an essayist and critic of high standing in Germany, and has also written prize-winning fiction which has not yet been translated into English.

Monis claimed at various times to have been a sheikh, an ayatollah and a hojjat al-Islam, a honorific title given to someone of high standing.

One day the job may well be his, but for now England will be looking for a candidate of higher standing on the international stage.

In other words, the more we believe that one has the opportunity for success based on hard work, the more we tend to think that people who skip leisure and work all the time are of higher standing.

That Italy is keen on the idea is hardly surprising: pooling its poor credit ratings with others of higher standing would lower its borrowing costs and reduce the risk, albeit small, that it might have its financing cut off.

In this respect they are in a much more advantageous position than the executive directors of the International Monetary Fund, who live in Washington, D.C., and have less contact with their home governments; they also tend to be persons of higher standing and authority.

Turbans were popular with men of higher standing and people used umbrellas made with bamboo or reeds.