Sentence examples for were as distinguished from inspiring English sources

Their father, Sheikh Mubarak, was one of the most learned men of the age, and the sons were as distinguished as the father.

Williams is as distinguished a ballplayer, if not as iconic, as his famous predecessors.

Carliner's career was as distinguished as his clients were numerous.

The home team delivers some fine results: Christa Ludwig as Venus, Eberhard Wachter as Wolfram and Gottlob Frick as the Landgrave are as distinguished as you would expect from their work in previously issued recordings of the opera.

22): Carolyn Porco's exploration of the final frontier has a lineage that is as distinguished as it is stellar — from Galileo Galilei's Jovian moons to Giovanni Schiaparelli's Martian canali to Riccardo Giacconi's pioneering X-ray astronomy.

This is as distinguished from the new remastered mono and stereo catalog, where only the final mixdowns were brought up to date with modern analog-to-digital techniques.

Now with tens of millions of albums sold to his credit, scores of awards and a list of music industry accomplishments that are as distinguished as they are remarkable, Dupri is anxious to continue making history.

Moffat stated, "Michael Gambon is as distinguished an actor as I can imagine and the fact that he was Dumbledore means that he is already known to millions of children".

Admiral Sir Eliab Harvey, GCB (5 December 1758 – 20 February 1830) was an eccentric and hot-tempered officer of the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars who was as distinguished for his gambling and dueling as for his military record.

(His editor, one Samuel L. Clemens, was almost as distinguished as Bob Gottlieb).

2. Evidentiary facts must be obtained as distinguished from ultimate facts or conclusions.