6 sentences with 'distinguished'
Example sentences and phrases with the word distinguished and other words derived from it.
• « Soon the Chinese recognized the blood circulation - 200 years before William Harvey - and distinguished two types of organs. The five tsang: heart, lungs, kidneys, spleen and liver, fundamental for life. And the fon, which are also five: the gall bladder, bladder, stomach, small and large intestine. »
• « On the Norwegian side, the case was brought by Jens Evensen, the country's most distinguished lawyer in international law. »
• « Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba was a Spanish general who distinguished himself in an extraordinary way in the wars of Granada, at the side of the Catholic Monarchs. »
• « A key legion that distinguished itself from the rest of the military was the Praetorian Guard, whose main job was to defend the emperor himself, followed in priority by the defence of Italy and the city of Rome. »
• « In his work The City of God, Augustine of Hippo distinguished between the perfect world of heaven, attainable through Christian faith, and the imperfect and flawed world of the living. This concept explained the decline of the Empire as irrelevant to the great mission of salvation. »