Sentence examples for was of distinguished from inspiring English sources

Kaahumanu was of distinguished parentage, her mother having been married to the late king of Maui.

The sculpture is marginally less provincial than the paintings, and, for example, the choir stalls carved by Pedro de Noguera and his assistants for Lima cathedral (1624 26) are of distinguished quality.

The exterior brickwork is of distinguished blue diapering and Dutch-influenced crow-step gables, but the cavernous, miraculously preserved timber roof structure is the main draw, with 10 bays of queenpost trusses supporting it – engineered to last.

Like the building that hosts them, those who play shows at Somerset House are of distinguished age but, if you had to criticise, perhaps a little on the square side.

AMERICAN universities are full of distinguished academics who programmed in their youth.

There were oodles of distinguished academics, as well as representatives from the Federal Reserve Board, the US Treasury, the Congressional Budget Office, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the President's Council of Economic Advisors CEAA).

When there was any entertainment of distinguished guests to be planned, it was done on a magnificent scale because Capt.

Notable in the Battle of Rhode Island was the distinguished performance of a battalion of African Americans, the first black regiment to fight in America.

One portrait on the wall is of Konstantin Simonov, the distinguished writer and Soviet war reporter.

She was a Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Indeed, there are many examples of distinguished buildings and interiors that were created and coordinated by one guiding hand.