Sentence examples for renowned from from inspiring English sources

Shchyolkovo was renowned from the 18th century as a centre of handicraft silk weaving, and today it remains a centre of various textile industries.

The Sami (Lapps) believed themselves to be the inventors of skiing, and their use of skis for hunting was renowned from Roman times.

Zuleika, the granddaughter of the warden of Judas College, is a female sleight-of-hand magician, a "prestidigitator", renowned from New York to St Petersburg.

Renowned from Kansas City to roadhouses across the South, this type of cooking was for many years done in a real pit, one dug into the ground.

The city of Populonia, located on the coast, played a leading role in this industry, as did the adjacent island of Elba, evidently renowned from an early date for the wealth of its deposits.

Here, you will see the orthodox method in operation, for which Ceylon is renowned: from picking the bud and two leaves, to withering the green leaf to rid it of around 45% of its moisture, to rolling the leaf in a great fairground-ride of a machine, little changed from the contraptions of the 19th century.

If we are honest, teachers are not renowned for abstaining from moaning.

Both divas were renowned for coming from behind, until those last heartbreaking times when they couldn't pull it off.

After successful conferences in Ravenna/Italy 2010 and Istanbul/Turkey 2012 this time Vienna gathered 170 participants, renowned scientists from 17 different countries from Europe, Asia, Australia, North and South America to discuss the newest findings in the field of heritage (Fig. 1).

It is renowned for making everything from microwave ovens to the nuclear reactors that power them.

Steve Jobs, its legendary former boss, was renowned for refusing pressure from investors to hand back some of its riches.