Democracy itself, he said, was in ill repute among average Russians because it was identified with crime, chaos and poverty.
With the advent of additional sponsors, the number and scope of awards has expanded considerably since that time; the list of winners of Ferrier Awards includes many singers of international repute, among them Felicity Palmer, Yvonne Kenny, Lesley Garrett and Bryn Terfel.
By the 5th century, Beirut had established its leading position and repute among the Empire's law schools; its teachers were highly regarded and played a chief role in the development of juristic learning in the East to the point that they were dubbed "Oecumenical Masters".
The calumnies heaped upon the Spaniards are suitably ancient (they are reputed, among other things, to be diseased, criminal and lascivious).
The American system features mid-term examinations as well as finals, so it's not hard to see why the place is reputed among employers seeking for graduates.
The couple's tables, in Mani and in Worcestershire, were reputed to be among the liveliest in Europe.
The children growing up in the park's 80 narrow homes attend Syosset schools, reputed to be among the best in the country.
Toms, the winner of the inaugural Wachovia Championship in 2003, is widely reputed to be among the top two or three putters on the PGA Tour.
One mosque is conservative, and the other is reputed to be among the most progressive in the city — making the downtown Muslim community a quintessentially New York combination of immigrants and native New Yorkers, traditionalists and spiritual seekers.
He owns no flat and, he says, does not have much of a life outside his work.Mr Zhang, who is 27, is beginning his climb up the bureaucracy in the capital of a province, Shanxi, south-west of Beijing, which is reputed to be among the most corrupt and least competently governed.
Said to be incorporated into masterpieces by Da Vinci and Michelangelo and expressed in the proportions of the Egyptian pyramids and the Greek Parthenon, the number (which, for the record, is 1.6180339) is reputed to be among the esoteric secret knowledge protected by generations of Freemasons, Rosicrucians, Illuminati and the other societies that secretly rule the world.
