Sentence examples for was someone of from inspiring English sources

Certainly there was someone of greater importance who could have been featured.

"He was someone of substance in China," said Detective Superintendent Mick Gradwell, who led the inquiry.

"Here was someone of the greatest age and one we could authenticate," said a worker in the department.

That will disappoint those hoping it was someone of Asian descent... Lancashire Constabulary could not be reached for a comment.

Coinsource's typical customer, Hernandez said, was someone of modest means, with limited or no access to traditional banking, making an experimental investment of twenty or thirty dollars.

Suppositions that he (or she?) could have been a bishop or a gladiator could be quite wide of the mark, although that the individual was someone of some importance seems like a fair guess.

"This is someone of a tremendous stature, a national figure.

He is someone of rare idealism, judgment, commitment to law, selfless dedication, and fundamental decency.

"A leader needs to be someone of sobriety and stability and patience and temperance," Romney added.

Liberal Catholics want the next pope to be someone of entirely fresh perspective.

"The pope is someone of great realism," the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said on Tuesday.