Sentence examples for won admiration for from inspiring English sources
Ashton has won admiration for her competence, thoroughness, and likability.
John Darwin's Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain won admiration for its scope and disinterested scholarship.
Applegate, 37, the star of the US TV show "Samantha Who?," won admiration for going public last year about her breast diagnosis and later underwent a double mastectomy.
Long before his battle with cancer made him the natural object of sympathy he had won admiration for his successes and affection for his modest response to them.
Voted one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine last year, the Canadian-born 50-year-old has won admiration for fending off several overseas competitors.
Although often persecuted for pacifism or for bizarre beliefs falsely attributed to them, the Shakers won admiration for their model farms, orderly and prosperous communities, and fair dealing with outsiders.
The company would lose nothing by this generosity, and might win admiration for its good deed.
Sometimes it wins admiration for its quiet role as a peace-maker; sometimes it incurs controversy by opposing population policies that involve contraception.
The differences between the firms grew more striking: while Dell was winning admiration for its web strategy, Compaq was signing deals with Tandy to sell computers through Radio Shack in shopping malls.It was a classic instance of "channel conflict".
Sturgeon scored a significant coup when she faced the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, and five other party leaders in an ITV UK leaders' debate last week, winning admiration for being calm and focused as she sought to attack Miliband from the left.
His ideological stance has earned him an unusual kind of respect among some citizens of the country he gave up, as well as the nickname "The People's Rooney" (in reference to the star England footballer, Wayne Rooney).But while this nascent hero with 63 goals in 160 appearances for his club is winning admiration for his exploits, Chongryon itself has a shadier history.
