But, since Mr Blair remains unpersuaded of the case for reform, his willingness to contemplate so distinguished a chairman as Lord Jenkins shows his commitment to fair dealing with the Lib Dems.
Talk about offhand chic: On my last trip there, I saw a distinguished guy with a quilted jacket over his suit tooling around town on a Vespa scooter.
Graffman, who is seventy-nine, studied with Rudolph Serkin and Vladimir Horowitz and had a distinguished career as a soloist until an injury on his right hand, when he was fifty, slowed him down.
One noteworthy offering is a short report with a distinguished provenance entitled A Plan for Action, which features a revealingly immodest subtitle: A New Era of International Cooperation for a Changed World: 2009, 2010, and Beyond.
For Dibaba, representing a country with such a distinguished athletics history brings a feeling of great responsibility.
Governor Weld, a distinguished governor, deserves a hearing.
Only in the world of personal computers could a company like Apple, essentially a has-been reduced to a miniscule market share, introduce a throwback model distinguished only by a differently colored plastic box, and have it treated by the media as if it was a history-making event.
"What an interesting topic, " a distinguished scholar wrote in reply to a query from me.
It has been distinguished as a leader in West Virginia arts education and has earned local recognition of its revitalization efforts.
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Regarding the chain of command, the French intelligence assessment said the section of the Syrian military responsible for filling munitions with chemical agents and for security at storage sites - "Branch 450" of the CERS - was staffed only by members of the president's minority Alawite sect and was "distinguished by a high level of loyalty to the regime".
The expectation is that such a document, endorsed by distinguished supporters of a credible, reliable and effective U.S. nuclear deterrent, would encourage a real debate about the future requirements for such a deterrent and the Nation's ability to satisfy those requirements.
He has a distinguished record of service to our country as a congressman, a senator and as vice president.
And at age 93, after a distinguished but relatively anonymous life, he published a slim pamphlet that even he expected would be little more than a vanity project.
All of the greater Shefi family admired you for your distinguished achievments: An excellent soccer player as a boy, a businessman from the age of 5, (yes 5) a distinguished officer of the I.
In recent weeks a distinguished presidential adviser was fired humiliatingly because of a single document signed under great stress during the communist era, an act which he had immediately admitted to his dissident friends, and repudiated.
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As a distinguished group of national security experts observed in a new book published by the Center for Security Policy, titled Shariah: The Threat to America, we must be concerned about more than just the threat of violent jihad.
The central struggle was between the publicly funded international Human Genome Project, led by Francis Collins, a distinguished scientist and devout Christian, which pursued a slow-and-steady approach to sequencing until Celera, a private company led by Craig Venter, appeared on the scene and boldly claimed that its revolutionary new technique, whole-genome shot-gun sequencing, could do the job in less than half the time.
Burton, the Oxford-educated son of a miner, was a distinguished Shakespearean actor when he met Taylor, who was already a Hollywood star.
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Bob McTeer, a Distinguished Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, is a former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
Completing a distinguished line-up of nominees are Brian Dennehy for Death of a Salesman at the Lyric, Con O'Neill for Telstar at the New Ambassadors, and David Threlfall for Someone Who'll Watch Over Me.
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As a minority of the Senate considers whether to continue to jeopardize reenactment of the Patriot Act, a distinguished group of the legislation's supporters weighed in today at a press conference convened by two former Attorneys General at the National Press Club.
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The plot, if you can call it that, demands that Borat travel across the country to find Pamela Anderson: a noble quest, even if it does mean putting that distinguished actress in a sack.
The youngest speaker at the 1963 March on Washington, a fearless advocate and a distinguished member of Congress, John Lewis has earned our lasting gratitude for a lifetime dedicated to the pursuit of equality and justice for all.
Thomas Nagel, a distinguished American philosopher, once remarked that to say now that consciousness is a physical state of the brain is to be in the position of an ancient Greek who proclaims that matter is energy: what he says is true, but there is no understanding of how it can be true, no framework into which to fit the discovery.
His role as a distinguished professor at Indiana University is an enduring legacy. (In a typical wisecrack, he claimed that his long attendance there was a result of the school's proximity to the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.) His students included such standouts as Paul Katz of the Cleveland Quartet, and international prize winners such as Gary Hoffman and Maria Kliegel.
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We've got a lot of distinguished guests here -- a couple of people I want to acknowledge.
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First, throughout her tenure as a senior minister in both the Sharon and Olmert governments, she never distinguished herself as a champion of democratic forces, either in Israel or in the Arab world.
Scottish Secretary Michael Moore said Mr Millan was "a distinguished secretary of state who served his country in both Scottish and European politics and has a lasting legacy".
Ayers, now a distinguished professor of education and senior university scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago, was a co-founding member of the radical activist group the Weather Underground in 1969.
"What it will do is make sure that there aren't any extra hoops for either a distinguished individual, like former President Mandela, or other members of the African National Congress to get a U.S. visa, " Casey said.
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