Sentence examples for prestigious citizens from inspiring English sources
The letters were written by Andrea Memmo, one of Venice's most prestigious citizens, to Giustiniana Wynne, the illegitimate daughter of an Englishman, Sir Richard Wynne, and a Greek-born Venetian woman of dubious origin.
Said was the recipient of numerous prizes and distinctions including twenty honorary doctorates and he was first U.S. citizen to receive the prestigious Sultan Owais Prize.
Applicants for these programs must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents, and recipients of this prestigious award will be encouraged to apply for the even more prestigious individual NRSA, the F32.
The Swiss writer Jacques Chessex, who has died, apparently from a heart attack, aged 75, was the first non-French citizen to win France's most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt.
She received the Lakandula Award, considered the highest honor for a Filipino citizen, and was recognized with the prestigious Humanitarian Award by Fashion Group International.
In such a form of government, the more prestigious the office, the less the office holder is responsible or responsive to the mass of citizens.
2) Do you think immigrants mostly take jobs that citizens in this country do not want (e.g. low-paying or not prestigious jobs), or mostly take jobs that citizens in this country want?
"Rather than enforcing a merit-based system, today's military bars all women regardless of their qualifications from access to prestigious and career-enhancing assignments, positions and schools, and is thus directly responsible for making service women second-class citizens".
Prestigious, leafy, wealthy Oxford.
Prestigious summer plans?
