Sentence examples for renown through from inspiring English sources

The hero, he believed, is one who is impelled by strong passions to win renown through the performance of great deeds preferably (but not necessarily) those contributing to the well-being of humanity.

The British military is setting up a specialist force modelled on the Chindits, the commandos who gained renown through their daring missions behind enemy lines in Burma during the Second World War.

In education Vives achieved renown through such works as De ratione studii puerilis (completed 1523; "On the Right Method of Instruction for Children") and De disciplinis libri XX (1531; "Twenty Books on Disciplines"), in which he advocated the use of the vernacular in schools, argued for the building of academies, and supported the education of women.

A certain progression of increasing renown through the generations can, however, been seen with Pisan sculptors Nicola Pisano (1239-84?) and his son Giovanni (1258-1325?).

Datang International Entertainment and Desert Rock Entertainment will be in the suite with famed producer/ director from Taiwan Alice Wang, who appeared on the cover of Be Who You Are Magazine last month, and famed Asia film star Candy Wang who is most known in the states for her leading role in Dangerous Liaisons but is a powerhouse actor renown through the Asian diaspora.

It is renown through its associated with acne vulgaris [ 1], the most common of all human skin diseases, as well as life-threatening diseases [ 2], such as meningitis [ 3] and endocarditis [ 4].

His route to influence and renown passed through an institution he had pointedly scorned.

As the great banker combats the rapacious aristocracy and brings prosperity to Florence, he also wins renown for the city through his patronage of artists and scholars, particularly the architect and theoretician Leon Battista Alberti, who is the protagonist of the third film in the series.

He sees the enterprise of acting as a kind of service industry, and the fact that a large portion of the stories through which he has won renown are Shakespeare's gives the task, for him, a certain moral purpose.

The political activist was James O'Keefe, 25, who has gained renown in conservative circles by poking fun at the left through pranks and undercover video.

Shaw first achieved renown in the late 1980s with a series titled "My Mirage," which, through a series of 170 works, explored the adventures of Billy, a baby boomer-ish suburban boy who grows up to experiment with drugs, follows a woman he loves into a pagan cult and eventually is reborn as a fundamentalist Christian.