Sentence examples for once famed from inspiring English sources

The Swiss were once famed for their mercenary skills, and many European courts had Swiss Guards.

In Saudi Arabia, numerous preachers once famed for their fighting words now advise tolerance and restraint.

As the name suggests, this is an old spa town, once famed for its hot springs.

But this is politics and the Conservatives were once famed for their ruthlessness.

It's exactly the kind of novelty song the festive charts were once famed for.

The crisis is especially catastrophic in Swat, once famed as a tourist valley, where the army defeated militants last year.

A selection of Bes-Ben hats from the once-famed Chicago milliner fetch $250 to $400.

The once-famed Brooklyn Democratic machine may be in abeyance; Markowitz has responded by turning his office into a public-relations machine instead.

For the second year in a row, North Carolina's once-famed men's basketball program will most likely miss the N.C.A.A. tournament.

Now Israelis are wondering whether their once-famed spy service could have been behind such a sloppy job or, in a John Le Carré-like twist, if Israel could have been framed.

He did not have long to play the elder statesman, pounding the lecture circuit or doing prestigious TV interviews: his galloping Alzheimer's disease, and the assault it made on his once-famed memory, put paid to that.