• The Brooklyn team itself is energetic but a little charisma-deprived, and the new hometown is still getting comfortable with its first pro franchise in more than a half century. (At the artisanal-obsessed Barclays, the food remains more famous than the players.) But the basketball was impressive Saturday night.

    WSJ: Jason Gay: NYC's Hoop Dream Frenzy

  • "(The) music video is more famous than I am, " Psy told CNN last month.

    CNN: Psy: One-hit wonder or K-pop breakthrough?

  • Theres a lot of it around and a lot of names more famous than Friedlanders.

    FORBES: Mother of pearls

  • "I'm more famous than half the people we talk to anyway, " he fumes.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • At one time more famous than Lawrence of Arabia, Gertrude Bell chose to compete on male terms in a masculine world.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Gertrude Bell'

  • And no route on the Captain is more famous than the Nose.

    WSJ: El Capitan's Nose in a Day | By Michael J. Ybarra

  • But appointing Giggs would also be a marketing masterstroke as you could argue he is more famous than the country he once captained.

    BBC: Brian Flynn - the small man in Wales' big job

  • The disaster has spawned countless books, television specials and movies -- perhaps none more famous than James Cameron's Oscar-winning film "Titanic, " one of the highest-grossing movies of all time.

    CNN: 100 years later, Titanic's allure still strong

  • "Some are more famous than others and some are just talented young people who are around, " says Figgis, who recently directed model Kate Moss in a short film for lingerie company Agent Provocateur.

    BBC: Mike Figgis. Copyright Red Mullet.

  • I've got to be more famous than video.

    CNN: Psy: One-hit wonder or K-pop breakthrough?

  • "It was more powerful than the famous March 6, 1989 flare which was related to the disruption of the power grids in Canada, " said Paal Brekke, a project scientist with the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory.

    CNN: Sun lets loose monumental flare

  • Jay-Z may not recruit any of their players to be his client (Lord knows he could make a D-Backs hat more famous than Paul Goldschmidt can), but the depth, balance and versatility of their roster has helped them overcome a slew of early injuries.

    WSJ: D-Backs Get Down and Dirty

  • For example, in the Dominican Republic, following the proclamation of the Brotherhood of the Holy Spirit of the Congos of Villa Mella, which organises socio-religious ceremonies stemming from African-American culture, threats have disappeared: the plan to build a road that would have cut in half the village of Mata Los Indios, the community's core, has been abandoned, and the confraternity's activities have become more famous than ever (via CD-Rom, participation in events, etc.).

    UNESCO: 18_eng

  • She was dazzlingly famous more than she was posh, and she was adored.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • Growth, though from a low level, is far faster than in more famous banking centres such as Switzerland and Luxembourg.

    ECONOMIST: Private banking

  • Obama's yellow coat and dress for the last inaugural swearing-in, isn't much more famous now than she was before January 2009.

    WSJ: Fashion Industry Watches Michelle Obama at Inauguration

  • It's more about being famous than it is about wanting to do music because that's what you do, and then that opening you up to other possibilities.

    CNN: Has image overtaken music?

  • The Loueo Plains(ph) of the Mississippi delta spawned a legion of blues men in the 1940s and '50s, but maybe none more famous today than Riley B.

    NPR: Building a Museum for B.B. King

  • For that matter, much as I loathe his dopey masquerade as a deep thinker on a par with Aristotle and Bill Moyers, Newt Gingrich is a lot more fascinating than Pippa Middleton, famous for a clingy dress.

    WSJ: Joe Queenan on Barbara Walters's Most Fascinating People | Moving Targets

  • In my interview with him, Muller admitted that Spyker is now more famous for saving Saab than anything else.

    FORBES: Spyker CEO On Saab Takeover

  • Croome Court was the first of more than 200 completed works by the famous architect and landscape designer Lancelot Capability Brown.

    BBC: Croome Court's chimney's restored using ?30,000 legacy

  • You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.

    NPR: Do What You Love

  • The most feared and fearsome people in all of southern Africa were by then famous for little more than fierce outbursts of primitive political violence and a certain tourist appeal, which included Shaka Land, a former movie set converted into a theme park and named for their most famous chief.

    NPR: One Boy's Heroism in the Face of AIDS

  • Again, if you are super famous and have more coverage than you know what to do with and universal name ID, then you can say no.

    FORBES: Connect

  • One hero was Yoni Netanyahu, who, in 1976, led the famous raid to free more than a hundred Israeli hostages from their Palestinian captors at the Entebbe airport, in Uganda.

    NEWYORKER: The Party Faithful

  • It may sound base, but had Margaret Thatcher lost in 1979, more than a few of those who became famous in her governments would not have hung around in active politics.

    ECONOMIST: The Tories have a bigger problem than Iain Duncan Smith

  • Team Lewis regrouped, firing Correa and bringing in Emmanuel Steward, trainer of more than a dozen world champions at the famous Kronk gymnasium in Detroit, Michigan, and ironically the man that had masterminded McCall's win over Lewis.

    BBC: Lewis: From playground jibes to world champion

  • Douglass was in his own day far more famous for more period of time than Lincoln was.

    NPR: Lincoln and Douglass Shared Uncommon Bond

  • James Michener was a big man in more ways than the one for which he was famous.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Phil Heimlich, the son, is famous for raising more campaign money than anyone in Cincinnati City Council history.

    CNN: An Experiment In Cincinnati

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