Sentence examples for over a distinguished from inspiring English sources

The tall 24-year-old from Chesham, who was dropped from Nottinghamshire's County Championship team this summer, has overtaken the New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum at the top of the International Cricket Council standings, and looks down over a distinguished list including Shane Watson, Warner, Virat Kohli, Mahela Jayawardene and Chris Gayle, who languishes in ninth.

He was the author of a substantial body of research over a distinguished career.

When he's not writing books, he presides over a distinguished pub quiz in north London, and he runs a quiz-for-hire company called Brainmen.

Earlier this week, the former jockey Randy Romero said he needed a kidney transplant (but had no insurance to pay for it) as a result of the more than 20 operations he endured over a distinguished 25-year career.

He understands and believes in the rule of law, and has lived and litigated that belief over a distinguished career.

Actor Peter O'Toole, the swashbuckling star who received eight Academy Award nominations over a distinguished film career, died Saturday in London, his agent, Steve Kenis, said in an email to The Times.

She recounted the episode, describing her surprise when the nation's then-leader Kim Jong-il said he would turn the journalists over to a "distinguished American" and requested her husband.

Just over a month ago, Peter Hennessy, a distinguished historian (and former writer for The Economist), concluded in a public lecture that the cabinet had become even more peripheral under Mr Blair than it had been under Margaret Thatcher.

After the war was over, he went on to a distinguished career as a mathematics professor at Cornell and later as provost and then president of the University of Oregon.

Consider for instance the celebrated Châteaureynaud, who over the course of a distinguished career has created short tales that are not exactly contes cruels but which linger on the edge of darkness and absurdity.

Over the past decade, Ellen Bialystok, a distinguished research professor of psychology at York University in Toronto, has shown that bilingual children develop crucial skills in addition to their double vocabularies, learning different ways to solve logic problems or to handle multitasking, skills that are often considered part of the brain's so-called executive function.