Distinguished

Usage examples of prestigious.

WCBA, a wholly owned affiliate of the CBA network, was a prestigious local station serving the New York area.

Yet when your passions lie elsewhere, even a prestigious career can come to seem like merely a day job, one that drains away the energy you have for pursuing new challenges and interests.

Much the same could have been said about the often prestigious contributors to some of the other targeted journals, whose arguments went far beyond the simplistic recitation of Marxist mantras.

For he had written that essay for submission to a contest sponsored by some prestigious learned society and had won, receiving thereby a valuable scholarship that had underwritten his college tuition.

Considered the rising star in the academic community, Chamberlain accepts a prestigious Chair at Bowdoin, formerly held by the renowned Calvin Stowe, husband of Harriet Beecher Stowe.

The University of Alpha Centauri bestowed the prestigious accolade aperiodically, whenever its Scientific Advisory Board deemed an achievement worthy of their recognition.

So now he insists on being so called, and Banat is miffed, because it sounds more prestigious than his own title of crew chief.

The most prestigious scientific institute in Germany, the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Genetics, and Eugenics, the German Research Council, and their extensive biomedical and eugenics research programs, had no qualms about the killing of so-called inferior and polluted races.

Senior Representative for Northern Europe in the House of Representatives at Weimar, holding the prestigious rank of Under Secretary, Lehmann is one of the richest men in Chung Kuo.

When the Royal Society bestowed on him the prestigious Copley Medal it was for his geology, zoology, and botany, not evolutionary theories, and the Linnaean Society was similarly pleased to honor Darwin without embracing his radical notions.

Now he was seventy-four years old and the active head of Beame, Mearns, Weld and Weld, the most prestigious law firm in Washington.

He had always been more interested in wizardry and the other, more prestigious varieties of magic, not the rather plebian witchcraft.

She, on the other hand, had grown up in a small, working-class town in Pennsylvania and had made it through far less prestigious schools on scholarships, loans she was still repaying and various unpleasant jobs.

For now, Sistani remains the most prestigious figure in the country, the only true kingmaker.

Fourth Meander folk apart from the less prestigious subcastes who cultivated the left bank of the Third Part.