Sentence examples for signal services from inspiring English sources

The founders voted to name the school after General Lafayette, who famously toured the country in 1824 25, as "a testimony of respect for [his] talents, virtues, and signal services... in the great cause of freedom".

Peston and his more shadowy co-author, Laurence Knight, have performed a signal service.

Anthony Grafton has performed a signal service by reconciling the fissiparous tendencies of modern Renaissance scholarship.

And that would be a signal service to the American public, which needs an election break.

Still, the concert felt more like a marker to celebrate past services rendered than a signal service in its own right.

Even former President Theodore Roosevelt, who had fought hard to break up big corporations, congratulated the detective for his "signal service" to the nation.

Interviewing his fellow-sailors, he found that "rum and love had done signal service in the way of driving them to sea".

At one end of the scale was Great Britain, with a small but highly developed signal service; and at the other end stood Russia, with a signal service inferior to that of the Union Army at the close of the American Civil War.

Mandela gave them signal service for a brief few years in the 1990s, and if it suits them to revere him as a symbol of unity, goodness and peace, so be it.

EarthLink quit its effort in May because of complaints about signal service.

Early last month OWS revealed it had received its first subpoena for user data, although it claimed the only data it can produce in response to such a request is the date and time a user registered with Signal, and the last date of a user's connectivity to the Signal service.