Sentence examples for small distinguished from inspiring English sources

Khan studied law at the North London Polytechnic and then joined Christian Fisher, a small, distinguished firm dedicated to civil-rights work.

A small, distinguished group, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell and the rather self-congratulatory Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes ("I have a chair in Anatomy and Physiology at the Medical College -- really more a settee than a chair, for the breadth of its subjects"), has undertaken a controversial project: bringing Dante's work to America and its "ungloved masses".

Gareth Bale played a considerable part, just as he did at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon two years ago, and Zinedine Zidane can be added to the small, distinguished list to have won Europe's most cherished club competition as a player and coach, alongside Miguel Muñoz, Giovanni Trapattoni, Johan Cruyff, Carlo Ancelotti, Frank Rijkaard and Pep Guardiola.

The principal's office of the Sharook Middle School, whose name means "sunrise" in Arabic, was now the office of the battalion commander, General Sherzad Mohamed Salah, a small, distinguished-looking man wearing the sand-colored, digital-camouflage uniform of the US Marines, but with lapels bearing black epaulets with the golden eagle and three stars signifying his brigadier-general rank.

Among a small but distinguished group of architectural critics, he stood out as a master.

The latest addition to its small but distinguished discography was recorded live at last year's Rossini in Wildbad festival.

But Lang is outclassed by Vassily Primakov, the young Russian pianist who has been taken up by the small but distinguished Bridge label.

(At other times, he knew he was giving offence, and did so deliberately: he nursed a small but distinguished hate-list, prominent among them, to the last, Tony Benn).

In 1920 she was the guiding figure in the small but distinguished group of dance personalities who worked to establish an organization that would set and enforce standards in ballet teaching.

The plight of the bereaved, meanwhile, gave rise to small but distinguished genre of reminiscence and reflection, from CS Lewis's A Grief Observed to Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking.

In leaving the Braves after 21 years, John Smoltz joins a small but distinguished group of players who toiled for at least two decades with their original team before moving on.