For instance, basketball legend, Michael Jordan became an active entrepreneur involved with many sports related ventures including investing a minority stake in the Charlotte Bobcats, Paul Newman started his own salad dressing business after leaving behind a distinguished acting career, or rap musician, Birdman started his own record label, clothing line, and an oil business.

The head of state ( now the President as the acting Grand Master ) confers knighthoods of the Order to distinguished citizens, foreign monarchs and other heads of state.

Modelling (" modeling " in American ) is distinguished from other types of public performance, such as an acting, dancing or mime artist, although the boundary is not well defined.

British grenadiers, distinguished by their mitre caps, acting as Shock troops | assault troops at the Battle of Bunker Hill.

His distinguished career has led him to the post of acting chief in Poland's Bureau of National Security.

Greene interrupted his acting career to serve in World War II in the 27th Lancers, where he distinguished himself.

He received an award from the 34th Cairo International Film Festival in December 2010, and was the 67th recipient of The George Eastman Award for distinguished contribution to the art of film in 2012, for his acting career and his global humanitarian leadership.

Monge has had a very distinguished acting career, she's acted in more than ten Spanish soap operas and theatre plays.

This was to become Jones's most distinguished screen role, in which, under the direction of James Whale, he was to display dramatic acting ability as well as musical talent.

After a distinguished career in North America with the British Army, Roche became a member of the Irish House of Commons in 1775, generally acting in support of the viceregal government.

The distinguished theater critic Gordon Rogoff, extolling ' the power available only to an actor at the height of her own command of detail ,' went so far as to describe Lavin's portrayal as ' one of those textbook lessons in great acting ...' "

Working with a distinguished faculty, students pursue any one of four disciplines — the visual arts, music ( vocal or instrumental ), theater ( acting or theater production ), or dance — in an environment that emphasizes professionalism and scholarship.

He was born in Moscow, Russia, and had a distinguished career in acting throughout Europe, mainly in Italy.

Famous in her time, and ever distinguished alike for her acting and her character, the Isabella role of the Commedia dell ' arte, was named after her.

After a family holiday in Ireland as a boy, O ' Sullivan returned with a strong Irish accent and was sent to the famous Corona Theatre School to try to get rid of it, thus starting a distinguished acting career.

While film critic Bosley Crowther gave the film a mixed review, he still appreciated the acting, and wrote, " Yet, as we say, this flapdoodle, written by Ben Hecht and Andrew Solt from a novel by Guy Endore, has been handsomely produced and played by a cast which is distinguished by José Ferrer in its midst.

After recounting the set-up of the story the reviewer concluded: " The reader will not be disappointed when the distinguished Belgian on psychological grounds declines to suspect the arrested husband and, by acting on the suggestion of an ugly girl who consistently derides her preposterous mother, builds up inferences almost out of the air, supports them by a masterly array of negative evidence and lands his fish to the surprise of everyone ".

Lourenço de Almeida ( died March 1508 ), son of Francisco de Almeida, the first viceroy of Portuguese India, acting under him, distinguished himself in the Indian Ocean, and made Ceylon ( present Sri Lanka ) tributary to Portugal ( see Portuguese Ceylon ).

After a distinguished career in industry, Oblad accepted a teaching and research position at the University of Utah as Distinguished Professor of Fuels Engineering, where he also served for several years as acting college dean.

Mitting distinguished two issues which were arguable, the first being whether Professor Turk's opinion that McKinnon would certainly commit suicide if extradited means that the Home Secretary must refuse extradition under section 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998 ( which prevents a public authority from acting in a way incompatible with convention rights ).

As a matter of fact, Albert S. Flint expressed his conviction that `` her physical strength, her mental power, her lively interest in all objects about her and her readiness to serve her fellow beings '' would have led her `` to a distinguished career amongst the noted women of this country ''.

" It concluded by saying, " in the years to come, in the view of the hundreds of thousands of people who are devoted to baseball, and the millions who will be, Abner Doubleday's fame will rest evenly, if not quite as much, upon the fact that he was its inventor ... as upon his brilliant and distinguished career as an officer in the Federal Army.

During the latter part of his career, Lancaster left adventure and acrobatic movies behind and portrayed more distinguished characters.

Schmidt's private life was in stark contrast to the success of his distinguished professional career, and was overshadowed by tragedy.

In the opinion of his biographer Tom Frame, these have tended to obscure the many achievements of Holt's long and distinguished political career.

" Samuel Smiles stated that he was " the scion of a distinguished Béarnese family "; although it is probable that the poverty of his parents would have excluded him from a learned career if some of the leading Protestants of the district had not charged themselves with the expenses of his education, which was begun under M. Jean de la Placette, the minister of Nay, He studied at Puylaurens, the Academy of Saumur, and the Academy of Sedan, receiving the degree of doctor in theology, it is said, at the age of seventeen.

Former President George W. Bush said that Kemp " will be remembered for his significant contributions to the Reagan Revolution and his steadfast dedication to conservative principles during his long and distinguished career in public service.

As Pope he lost, or failed to show, any of the qualities which had distinguished his previous career, devoting himself instead to a life of personal pleasure and indolence, and the achievements of his incumbency were very few.

During his distinguished career, Morgan wrote 22 books and 370 scientific papers.

Wenders, whose career had been distinguished by his mastery of the road movie, had intended this as the Ultimate Road Movie.

In addition, the DVD market in particular has allowed fans to view the entire Stooge film corpus as distinct periods in their long, distinguished career instead of comparing one Stooge to the other ( the Curly vs. Shemp debate continues to this day ).

He has a long and distinguished career on stage and television.

After a long and distinguished career, culminating in the famous Maxi Trial in 1986-1987, he was killed by the Corleonesi Mafia in May 1992, on the motorway near the town of Capaci.

An able commander, Catiline had a distinguished military career.

These roles followed a long and distinguished career in the theatre.

Rutherford had a distinguished theatrical career alongside her film successes.

Six prizes are awarded annually to visual and media artists for distinguished career achievement in fine arts ( painting, drawing, photography, print-making and sculpture, including installation and other three-dimensional work ), applied arts ( architecture and fine crafts ), independent film and video, or audio and new media.

One of Tang's most distinguished advisors was a Buddhist spiritual teacher, who Tang had used to indoctrinate his troops in the ways of loyalty, and to whom he had deferred for various career decisions.

In 1938 Bayer settled in New York City where he had a long and distinguished career in nearly every aspect of the graphic arts.

By this time Macmillan had lost the wire-rimmed glasses, toothy grin and brylcreemed hair of wartime photographs, and instead grew his hair thick and glossy, had his teeth capped and walked with the ramrod bearing of a former Guards officer — acquiring the distinguished appearance of his later career.

As a Picentine, he was favoured during his career by Pompey, who was a scion of Picenum's most distinguished family.

World Middleweight Champion Nino Benvenuti had long had a distinguished career that included championships in 2 divisions and 2 wins in 3 bouts vs all-time great Emile Griffith.

Roddy McDowall, who had a long distinguished career including as the regular star of the Planet of the Apes series ; Ron Howard, who, in addition to being the star of the long running Happy Days television series, became an Oscar-winning director in adulthood ; Elijah Wood, who continued his career successfully into adulthood from playing Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings film series and starring as Ryan Newman in the T. V.