Sentence examples for peculiar status from inspiring English sources

The huge advantage he has over other scandal-hit celebrities is his peculiar status.

It gained this peculiar status in 1204, when King John lost the Duchy of Normandy to France.

The peculiar status of the ex-planet provides the impetus for Maxwell's most directly personal work to date.

At the start of the rehearsal, Ms. Wang, who also choreographed the work, acknowledged the production's peculiar status.

Jean will go to public school, and if any of her schoolmates begin to josh her about her peculiar status in life, whe will josh them right back.

Tyson, who wrote a book about the Pluto controversy, has achieved the peculiar status of being an astronomer famous for losing a planet, rather than for discovering one.

By Nick Paumgarten The island's peculiar position and status have made it an urban-planning Rorschach: a stadium, a casino, an artists' retreat, and a homeless colony have all been proposed at some time.

Although not frequently used in equine medicine, these drugs are of peculiar interest because of their special status as threshold substances.

All three islands have a peculiar legal status: they owe allegiance to the queen but are not subject to the laws and taxes of Britain proper, and they have taken advantage of that special status to become places where money can be earned, stored and passed on to heirs free of tax.

Mr. Kerry, who was the exit poll president-elect in November 2004, finds himself enduring the peculiar pariah status that the Democratic Party reserves for its losing nominees.

Those particular formulations have caused some philosophers to treat aesthetic objects as though they were endowed with a peculiar metaphysical status.