Sentence examples for very eminent from inspiring English sources

"These are very eminent people.

Mr. Ito, he said, was "a very eminent mathematician".

"She was actually a very eminent and hard-nosed statistician," says Kieniewicz.

Among the applicants were "very eminent scientists" as well as people doing "a lot of garage-type projects".

"It would be helpful if you could build a small group of very eminent nonpolitical experts" to "keep you briefed day by day in a map room".

Once, for example, we were discussing a very eminent scientist whom we both knew and who had been the recipient of numerous honours and awards.

Charming, gregarious, remarkably acute autobiographical observations by a top practitioner of literary theory (at Cambridge, then Oxford, now Manchester) who was born into Britain's Irish Catholic working class but earned his present eminent position, very high and way over on the left.

The Roman Catholic church had very few eminent intellectuals known and respected as such outside its own ranks.

The very fact that such pre-eminent authorities disagree, coupled with the resulting Congressional dysfunction, dooms the Wilentz proposal because all Treasury debt issued pursuant to unilateral action would be so clouded with legal uncertainty that investors would probably either shun it altogether or demand very high interest rates.

Several of the greatest performances I have heard were conducted by eminent, very elderly maestros.

They talk very selectively: the more eminent and powerful the reporter or the publication, the more likely such conversations are.