Sentence examples for reputation dates from inspiring English sources

It's miraculous that a composer whose reputation dates to his 1955 "Susannah," one of the most performed American operas, is still working with assurance and skill.

Its reputation dates to the 1930s when Western artists and intellectuals like Walter Spies, Colin McPhee and Rudolf Bonnet moved in, boosting the local arts scene and sparking foreign interest in this tiny island.

I'm not going to tell.' Grace Jones's scary reputation dates back to the early Eighties, when she and her then-boyfriend, French photographer Jean-Paul Goude, went all out with her striking looks.

This reputation dates to the treaty port era, 1843 to 1943, when the city was home to two main foreign-run enclaves – districts where Western countries and later Japan established spheres of influence, and where Chinese residents could taste French pastries, see neo-classical buildings like those in London, and shop at department stores comparable to those of New York and Tokyo.

He has a reputation, dating to his 14 years as an N.F.L. quarterback, for being a pugnacious sort.

The Endoume is the most interesting quarter in Marseille right now, throwing off its old, sleazy reputation dating back to the days of The French Connection movie.

This is a reply to Russia's menacing manoeuvres in 2009, which concluded with a dummy nuclear attack on Poland.Poland has successfully shed its reputation, dating from the Kaczynski era, for knee-jerk Russophobia.

Though she owns property near Puget Sound, Delilah lives in a ramshackle house in White Center, which is nicknamed Rat City (the area has a gritty reputation dating back to World War II), parts of which have the highest crime rate of any neighborhood in King County.

This humanistic work was the basis of Moore's international reputation, which dates from the large retrospective exhibition held in 1946 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Its reputation perhaps dates back to the 19th century, when Chartists attacked special constables sent here by The State to quell unrest among flannel weavers.

The day after the Republican convention ended in early September, Matthew Dowd, Mr. Bush's chief campaign strategist, said of Mr. Kerry, "He's the best debater since Cicero," and other aides and surrogates chimed in about Mr. Kerry's reputation, which dates to his days at Yale.