6 sentences with 'notorious'
Example sentences and phrases with the word notorious and other words derived from it.
• « Probably the most notorious Roman defeat was that of the forces led by Crassus, Julius Caesar's ally in the First Triumvirate. »
• « One notorious practice was that of bishops or archbishops who controlled and received income from many different territories (called "bishoprics") at once, but never actually visited them. »
• « the most notorious, Alexander VI (r. 1492 - 1503), sponsored his sons (the infamous Borgia family) in their attempts to seize territory throughout northern Italy. »
• « The most notorious person in this effort was the Spanish Duke of Alba, who sat at the head of a military court called the Council of Troubles, but known to the Dutch as the Council of Blood. Alba executed those suspected of being Protestants, which did little more than rally the Dutch resistance. »
• « One notorious event was the Peterloo massacre of 1819 in which hundreds of protesting workers in Manchester were gunned down by the middle-class volunteer cavalry. »
• « One of the most notorious of these programmes has been the Saad-16 Project, located in northern Iraq. It cost $250 million and included state-of-the-art facilities dedicated to missile research and development. »