(a.) Famous; celebrated for great achievements, for distinguished qualities, or for grandeur; eminent; as, a renowned king.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here's what you need to know Read more Speaking to Guardian Australia ahead of the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney, Krugman, a renowned columnist at the New York Times , predicted the slowing Chinese economy would hurt Australia, but said the country should not get “too hysterical” about it.
(2) Case histories are given to show how renowned analytical service laboratories and microbeam experts formulated their strategies to approach a real life problem, what type of conclusions were deduced from the data and, finally, how the problem was solved.
(3) Half an hour north of Tewkesbury is Upton-upon-Severn, renowned as the most flood-prone town in Britain.
(4) In Cefischer, who until his war-related loss of both upper limbs had been a renowned cartoonist, a comparison of his works, drawn initially by hand and later with the mouth, reveals his characteristic style of expression having remained the same.
(5) But there was worse to come: Alliot-Marie went on to offer the French military's "world-renowned savoir-faire " to Ben Ali's regime, and to deliver this savoir-faire to Tunis.
(6) Arsenal’s Arsène Wenger: I love Bob Marley’s music and the man that he was Read more Cazorla has travelled to his native Spain to see the renowned specialist Dr Ramón Cugat and Wenger did not rule out that the injury would turn out to be season-ending.
(7) The coalition thinks appointing Green to find further savings in this area demonstrates its willingness to allow others outside government to look at the books, but it is also banking on benefiting from the touch of a renowned businessman when what are likely to be hugely unpopular cuts are announced.
(8) The ICT said Tibetans in Ganzi were "renowned for their strong sense of Tibetan identity and nationalism" and had been more politically active than residents of almost any other Tibetan area since the widespread unrest of March 2008, with protests including demonstrations and prayer vigils.
(9) A bill presented in 1940 for a law "on euthanasia for incurable ill persons" found the unanimous consent of the renowned physicians consulted for this purpose.
(10) Where to eat Dom Sancho restaurant, an hour away in the hill village of Sortelha, (Rua do Corro, +351 271 388 267) is renowned for its regional food.
(11) In recent years, Chinese companies have been busy buying up internationally renowned brands and landmarks, including New York’s Waldorf Astoria hotel, the former headquarters of Chase Manhattan Bank and, in the UK, the venerable Weetabix.
(12) The tiny nation to the east of the Himalayas has long been renowned for its focus not on GDP – gross domestic product – but GNH ( gross national happiness) .
(13) The renowned US architect Frank Gehry recently completed the Dr Chau Chak Wing building for the University of Technology in Sydney, described by the Australian governor general, Sir Peter Cosgrove, as “the most beautiful squashed brown paper bag I’ve ever seen”.
(14) It was hard to believe this was the Algarve – renowned for beach resorts and golf courses – but we came across nature reserves, like this one at Ria de Alvor , wherever we went.
(15) In 1972 the BBC produced his tale The Stone Tape, a technological ghost story still renowned among aficionados for the twist in its tail.
(16) Ramsey said one of the reasons he resisted offers from other suitors, including Manchester United, was that Arsenal are renowned for giving teenage players plenty of first-team action.
(17) Havel was a renowned playwright and essayist who, after the crushing of the Prague spring in 1968, was drawn increasingly into the political struggle against the Czechoslovakian communist dictatorship, which he called Absurdistan.
(18) Their 12-year stewardship transformed an obscure theatre notorious for the austerity of its seats into a fashionable address renowned for its rollcall of stars - including Ralph Fiennes, Diana Rigg, Juliet Binoche and Cate Blanchett - all of whom were eager to muck in with communal dressing rooms and a minimum wage.
(19) An Islamist-dominated Congress will find it extremely difficult to reach a negotiated settlement with Jathran, given his renowned animosity to the Muslim Brotherhood."
(20) Requests of such kind were sent to the medical faculties of renowned universities.
Reputed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Repute
Example Sentences:
(1) "We have a good reputation, so this won't affect us at all.
(2) John Lewis’s marketing, advertising and reputation are all built on their promises of good customer services, and it is a large part of what still drives people to their stores despite cheaper online outlets.
(3) His senior role in the Popalzai tribe and his chairmanship since 2005 of Kandahar provincial council bolstered his reputation as an Asian version of a mafia don.
(4) Despite tthree resignations and his reputation as a tribal operator in the Blair-Brown wars, however, his belief in the party he joined on his 15th birthday is undimmed.
(5) "I'm not a career banker ... and given I was reputationally undamaged, I got a lot of calls [at that time]."
(6) Pichinde virus inoculation into strain 13 guinea pigs is a model with features reputed to be similar to hemorrhagic fever in humans.
(7) Burham's claim to be the continuity candidate, coupled with his past reputation as a Blairite, suggests a centrist leadership that would stay on course in terms of private sector involvement in public services, a crackdown on benefit claimants and a tougher stance on criminals.
(8) Mark Rasch, a cyber crime expert quoted by the FT, meanwhile said recent events have been “a serious and devastating attack to [Sony’s] reputation and image”, and his opinion is played out by a new YouGov poll into the public perception of Sony’s brand.
(9) At the same time the world's biggest carmaker is fighting to save its reputation as the home of some of the world's safest vehicles.
(10) The reputations of companies linked to fossil fuels are at immediate risk from a fast-growing divestment campaign, one of Europe’s biggest asset managers has warned.
(11) This could also have the added benefit of deterring aggressive tax planning by multinational corporations looking to avoid reputational risks.
(12) But it has a tainted reputation: the 2007 foot and mouth outbreak was traced to a leak from Pirbright’s drains.
(13) Big Red football parties had a reputation for being wildly drunk.
(14) Maybe there was a wish to go for these stronger story formulations, more extreme situations to try to get the energy up to comfortably blow the lid off.” Miller pointed out to Franzen that he has developed something of a reputation as a misanthrope.
(15) He will be asked to explain why he only once reputedly asked for assurances over Coulson, and why he infamously sent Brooks text messages ending in "LOL", which he believed meant lots of love.
(16) The Lib Dem MP Stephen Lloyd , asked Atos staff how they planned to improve their reputation.
(17) I was optimistic that I could leave behind my reputation as the nerdy one of my friends.
(18) 'Devastated' Peter Greste calls on Egypt's president to pardon trio Read more “It’s ironic that the conviction was for tarnishing Egypt’s reputation when ... this [case] is what’s tarnished Egypt’s image,” Clooney told BBC News.
(19) It’s especially not appropriate for a citizen seeking election to this house or selection to the ministry canvassing for money and support to seek to damage individuals’ reputation by commencing court actions for what could only be an improper purpose.” Palmer said the former treasurer, Joe Hockey, had been staying at the resort at the time and “walked past the table” where they were sitting and “merely sat down to have a coffee”.
(20) The disastrous launches of SimCity and Battlefield 4 , the confining and somewhat invasive nature of the publisher’s Origin digital gaming platform and the voraciously monetised smartphone version of Dungeon Keeper, have kicked further dents in its reputation.