#* Museums ' international roles will be strengthened to improve museum programmes in this country and Britain's image, reputation and relationships abroad.

Cantonese style is the unique and charm dishes, which enjoy a long history and a good reputation both at home and abroad.

With a highly favourable reputation abroad in both Cold War blocs, Josip Broz Tito received some 98 foreign decorations, including the Legion of Honour and the Order of the Bath.

Although he continued to be extremely popular and widely read, both at home and abroad, Scott's critical reputation declined in the last half of the nineteenth century as serious writers turned from romanticism to realism, and Scott began to be regarded as an author suitable for children.

Carmen initially gained its reputation through a series of productions outside France, and was not revived in Paris until 1883 ; thereafter it rapidly acquired celebrity at home and abroad, and continues to be one of the most frequently performed operas ; the " toreador's song " from Act 2 is among the best known of all operatic arias.

The persecution and flight of the Huguenots greatly damaged the reputation of Louis XIV abroad, particularly in England.

The defense of Jasna Góra once again increased his reputation, both among the Confederates, and abroad.

Unlike his contemporary, the Finn Jean Sibelius, Nielsen's reputation abroad did not start to evolve until after World War II.

It was partly his lack of success on the Russian opera stage that led Rubinstein to consider going abroad once more to secure his reputation as a serious artist.

The number of patients grew in proportion to the growing city ’ s reputation abroad and the economic benefits flowing to the city provided further motivation to the inhabitants.

Although the critical power and skill of these works earned Toup an immense reputation at home and abroad, he was also criticized for his " immoderate language " and " boorish conduct.

MIT has remained an important centre of engineering education and earned an excellent reputation both in India and abroad.

Acton's reputation for learning gradually spread abroad, largely through Gladstone's influence.

Escoffier modernized French haute cuisine, also doing much work to spread its reputation abroad with business projects in London in addition to Paris.

Fictional massacres were created to tar the reputation of the Portuguese state abroad.

Some liberals argue that despite its left-of-center reputation, Brookings foreign policy scholars were overly supportive of Bush administration policies abroad.

He had guided her when she was in her 20s when her reputation and fame was growing both at home and abroad.

Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, the term has come back into vogue as the United States government works to improve their reputation abroad, particularly in the Middle East and among those in the Islamic world.

This was a deed of immeasurable significance for the reputation of the new government abroad.

She has received a national and international reputation as a leader in promoting women's equal rights, including human rights, in Britain and abroad.

Tuke enjoyed a considerable reputation, and he earned enough money from his paintings to enable him to travel abroad and he painted in France, Italy and the West Indies.

As foreign minister, he gained respect at home and abroad the reputation as a tough but pragmatic supporter of Russia's interests and as an opponent of NATO's expansion into the former Eastern bloc, though on 27 May 1997, after 5 months of negotiation with NATO Secretary general Javier Solana, Russia signed the Foundation Act, which is seen as marking the end of cold war hostilities.

* The Encarta dictionary defines " Ugly American " as: stereotypical offensive American: a loud, boorish, nationalistic American, especially one traveling abroad, who is regarded as conforming to a stereotype that gives Americans a bad reputation.

The two works made Ibert an early reputation both at home and abroad.

He had a war reputation, but this was the kind of man women like even without medals.

It was essential that he should restore his formidable reputation as a rip-roaring, ruthless gun-slinger, and this was the time-honored Wild West method of doing it.

and the question before these meetings was, here is a man of international reputation and proved earning power ; ;

At no time does he seem to have proposed marriage, and Mrs. King was evidently torn between a concern for her daughter's emotions and the desire to believe that the friendship might be continued without harm to her reputation.

Tardily the Government here came to understand how this country's own reputation was tarnished by the association with repression.

It would be fine publicity for the man who was willing to walk to the mayor's throne over the broken reputation of a helpless girl!!

Diario De La Marina was the oldest and most influential paper in Cuba, with a reputation for speaking out against tyranny.

He attained a reputation for brawn and audacity after a very competitive wrestling match to which he was challenged by the renowned leader of a group of ruffians, " the Clary's Grove boys ".

Readers unacquainted with its reputation as a satirical work often do not immediately realize that Swift was not seriously proposing cannibalism and infanticide, nor would readers unfamiliar with the satires of Horace and Juvenal recognize that Swift's essay follows the rules and structure of Latin satires.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

This book, which established his reputation, was first translated into English by William Montgomery and published in 1910 as The Quest of the Historical Jesus.

He was next appointed by the Emperor Hadrian as one of the four proconsuls to administer Italia, then greatly increased his reputation by his conduct as proconsul of Asia, probably during 134 – 135.

The Peace of Crépy in September 1544 deprived him of this employment, but he had won a considerable reputation, and when Charles was preparing to attack the Schmalkaldic League, he took pains to win Albert's assistance.

Claudius had a reputation that he was easily controlled by his wives and freedmen.

In his twenty-eighth year he felt the impulse to study philosophy and was recommended to the teachers in Alexandria who then had the highest reputation ; but he came away from their lectures so depressed and full of sadness that he told his trouble to one of his friends.

Washington Irving, a prominent American writer with a European reputation, was approached by John Jacob Astor to mythologize the three-year reign of his Pacific Fur Company.

He was already well-known from his earlier work, and had developed a reputation as a brilliant researcher, but his laboratory was often untidy.

However, Carnegie's reputation was permanently damaged by the Homestead events.

It could be said that Aalto's international reputation was sealed with his inclusion in the second edition of Sigfried Giedion's influential book on Modernist architecture, Space, Time and Architecture: The growth of a new tradition ( 1949 ), in which Aalto received more attention than any other Modernist architect, including Le Corbusier.

It was in the military prison in Bonne-Nouvelle, a district of Rouen, from February to May, that he did the work that made his reputation.

Armida was translated into German and widely performed, especially in the northern German states, where it helped to establish Salieri's reputation as an important and innovative modern composer It would also be the first opera to receive a serious preparation in a piano and vocal reduction by Carl Friedrich Cramer in 1783.