Sentence examples for won wide admiration from inspiring English sources

As vice president, he strongly supported Cleveland's policies and won wide admiration for his impartiality as presiding officer of the Senate.

Of course, there were differences between them - Britain's Tony Blair has won wide admiration in the US for his straight talk - but they sustained a common determination to stop mass murder.

In 1973, as a member of the Senate Watergate committee, which investigated illegal activities in President Richard M. Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign, he won wide admiration for patient but persistent questioning of the former attorney general John N. Mitchell and the White House aides H. R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and John Dean.

"Our promise at the outset was that we would get rid of the Taliban and Al Qaeda and make sure that they didn't come back, and we're well on the way to accomplishing that," Robert Finn, the American ambassador, who has won wide admiration among Afghans for his efforts to speed up the flow of aid, said in an interview last month.

He won wider admiration as Pierrot in the 1796 Christmas pantomime of Robinson Crusoe at Drury Lane.

Milton's fame and reputation derive chiefly from Paradise Lost, which, when first published in 1667, did not gain wide admiration.

Still, the songs won wide critical praise.

Still, the discovery won wide attention here.

The Alvarez theory won wide attention.

The critics have won wide support.

His cabinet picks have won wide praise.