Not since Dag Hammarskjöld has a UN leader been as acclaimed as Annan.

Even independent directors, often acclaimed as the solution to all problems, are subject to the same pressure.

He was widely acclaimed and celebrated but remained himself always.

He also featured in the acclaimed documentary, The World at War .

There have been academic experts on Japan, like the acclaimed scholar Edwin Reischauer.

He was acclaimed the 2nd best player of Barcelona in a season long voting as Barcelona won the league title with a record 99 points.

During the early 20th century, the Swedish language modernism emerged in Finland as one of the most acclaimed literal movements in the history of the country.

His 1974 book, Working , in which (as reflected by its subtitle) People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do , also was highly acclaimed.

China s government has blocked Liu s wife, the acclaimed photographer Liu Xia, from participating by keeping her under virtual house arrest in Beijing.

Kolakowski, modern Poland s most acclaimed philosopher, quickly learned that mendacity was the true building block of Communism, and he withdrew from it in horror.

The polder model is a term with uncertain origin that was first used to describe the acclaimed Dutch version of consensus based economic and social policy making, specifically in the 1980s and 1990s.

While designing the master plan for the Beijing Games, Speer Jr., an acclaimed architect and town planner, also sought, like his father, to create a futuristic global metropolis.

Over the past two years, the self acclaimed 'Gulf democracy' has arrested more than 200 protesters, put them on trial, fabricated charges against them, and then acquitted them.

Assefa, who is survived by his four children, was also an acclaimed lawyer whose political instinct and writings inspired younger generations. However, at the end of his life, he suffered alone in the pale light of exile.

His government in Terceira island was only recognized in the Azores, whereas on the continent and in the Madeira Islands power was exercised by Philip II, who was acclaimed king in 1580 as Philip I of Portugal and recognized as official king by the Cortes of Tomar in 1581.

MEXICO CITY For a glimpse of the average American s understanding of the relationship between the United States and Mexico, one only has to watch the critically acclaimed television series Breaking Bad.

The Dutch Golden Age ( ) was a period in Dutch history, roughly spanning the 17th century, in which Dutch trade, science, military, and art were among the most acclaimed in the world.

China s government has blocked Liu s wife, the acclaimed photographer Liu Xia, from participating by keeping her under virtual house arrest in Beijing. It has browbeaten other countries into boycotting the award ceremony.

On 4 March 2005, President Hu Jintao set forth four point guidelines on cross Strait relations under the new circumstances, which have been warmly acclaimed by the compatriots on both sides of the Strait and received wide attention in the world.

Athletic imagery used to brilliant effect in Leni Riefenstahl s acclaimed documentary appeared to create a link between the Nazis and the ancient Greeks, and to confirm the Nazi myth that Germans and German civilization were the true heirs to the Aryan culture of classical antiquity.

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With the aid of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt, Anderson performed a critically acclaimed open air concert on Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. She sang before a crowd of more than 75,000 people and a radio audience in the millions.

Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as Yahweh's servant?

That outcome is as frustrating as it is ironic.

Such a statement is as dismaying as it is false.

She is as tall as you.

It is as simple as that.

Meg is as tall as Ken.

It is as simple as that.

Two state condominialism is as visionary as the name is clunky.

I wonder if Tom is as excited about this as Mary is.

This represents a tragedy that is as avoidable as it is immense.

China s rise thus is as much Mao s handiwork as it is Deng s.

John is as old as my brother.

Japan is not as large as Canada.

She is almost as tall as you.

Human migration is as old as history.

Kyoto is not as large as Osaka.

Mary is not as tall as he.

That is one of the reasons why AIDS is raging across Africa as fast as it is, and not as fast across Europe.

This is as visible in Egypt and Tunisia as it is in Turkey.

(This is as true in Europe today as it is in the US.)

BOGOTA, LIMA, SANTIAGO International economic coordination is as necessary as it is elusive.

The onus is on us as much as it is on the computer.