Briggs write, "There is probably no reign in the history of ancient Khmers in which more distinguished ministers, scholars, and dignitaries are mentioned in the inscriptions."

By that fourth night, Skander had given up asking the whereabouts of my distinguished minister for special affairs.

My distinguished minister for special affairs seemed imperfectly pleased with the world around him.

His pupils in Cribyn included John Islan Jones, who went on to become a distinguished Unitarian minister and writer.

He was the eldest son of Thomas Dix Hincks, a distinguished Protestant minister, orientalist and naturalist.

Macleod was a distinguished minister of the Scottish Church, and studied at Edinburgh.

He became one of the most distinguished ministers, and most popular preachers of his Church, becoming moderator of the General Assembly in 1836.

"I do not wish to disagree with the distinguished minister from India," he said with a smile.

Who among us didn't chuckle when he introduced the prime minister of Pakistan to the Senate as "the distinguished prime minister of India"?

The chief Italian representative was Count Sforza, the distinguished and successful foreign minister.