This may not be the greatest but it certainly comes close to being the greatest lesson Sam Rayburn's career, up to this hour, teaches all of us who would aspire to distinction in political life under our processes of government.

President Kennedy's invitation to the Spanish-born master said, `` We feel your performance as one of the world's greatest artists would lend distinction to the entertainment of our guests ''.

He finished his studies in 1951 with the greatest distinction.

Boris Godunov, among major operas, shares with Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlos ( 1867 ) the distinction of having the most complex creative history and the greatest wealth of alternative material.

It is a working horse farm and an educational theme park, along with holding the distinction of being a retirement home for some of the world's greatest competition horses including Cigar and 2003 Kentucky Derby winner Funny Cide.

Upon the death of his father-in-law in 1361, John received half his lands, the title " Earl of Lancaster ", and the distinction as the greatest landowner in the north of England, inheriting the Palatinate of Lancaster.

The triazine family of herbicides, which includes atrazine, were introduced in the 1950s ; they have the current distinction of being the herbicide family of greatest concern regarding groundwater contamination.

The distinction between pop standards and the broader popular music of the aforementioned time period lies in an enduring appeal of the greatest of these songs, long after their time of being " chart hits ," although methods for measuring commercial appeal changed greatly over the course of the twentieth century.

At eight state baseball titles, La Porte High School holds the distinction of winning the greatest number in Indiana.

On June 18, 1970, Governor John J. McKeithen signed a legislative act that brought the old campus its greatest distinction, changing its title to Northwestern State University of Louisiana.

On his return to Sweden, however, Sprengtporten was received with the greatest distinction and made a lieutenant-general and colonel of the guards.

Grange, whom Moray had allowed considerable leeway, continued to act with courage and distinction ; "... the Regent committed unto the laird of Grange, the special care, as an experienced captain, to oversee every danger, to ride to every wing and encourage and make help where the greatest height was.

It is perhaps his greatest distinction that he is the earliest of the Cavalier song-writers by profession, of whom John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, was a later example, poets who turned the disreputable incidents of an idle court-life into poetry which was often of the rarest delicacy and the purest melody and colour.

The Order of British Columbia, which evolved out of and replaced the earlier Order of the Dogwood, is intended to honour any current or former longtime resident of British Columbia who has demonstrated a high level of individual excellence and achievement in any field, demonstrating the " greatest distinction and excell in any field of endeavour benefiting the people of the Province or elsewhere.

In the past, it enjoyed a large, even disproportionate, representation in Indian cinema, and produced film directors like Satyajit Ray, who was an Academy Honorary Award winner, and the recipient of India and France's greatest civilian honours, the Bharat Ratna and Legion of Honor respectively, and Mrinal Sen, who is the recipient of the French distinction of Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters and the Russian Order of Friendship.

Barclay was an anatomist of the highest distinction, and perhaps the greatest anatomical teacher in Britain at that time.

Ames ' greatest distinction was being one of the wildest pitchers in history, his curveball charitably described as, " dramatic.

The Alberta Order of Excellence is intended to honour any current or former long-time resident of Alberta who has demonstrated a high level of individual excellence and achievement in any field, having " rendered service of the greatest distinction and of singular excellence for or on behalf of the residents of Alberta.

She has had the distinction of appearing in two Broadway landmarks: one of its greatest hits, the highly-acclaimed, long-running A Chorus Line, and, as a teenager, in one of its biggest flops, the infamous musical version of Breakfast at Tiffany's, which closed before opening night.

One of Kant's greatest contributions, according to Schopenhauer, was the distinction of the phenomenon from the thing-in-itself.

The distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic sincerity, between outward " spirituality " and subtle wordliness, is a sharp one from a Malamati point of view ; this additional demarcation is confirmed by the most learned of the greatest Sufi Masters as the single most important distinction in the movement towards the penultimate stages of the Sufi spiritual hierarchy.

( as she was then ) noted that the greatest deficiency in having two different approaches is that one afforded a greater amount of remedy than the other which provoked parties to abuse this distinction.

One experiment showed the greatest one-year difference occurring between the eleventh and twelfth years.

The secretary's greatest achievement is perhaps the rekindling of NATO realization that East-West friction, wherever it take place around the globe, is in essence the general conflict between two entirely different societies, and must be treated as such without regard to geographical distance or lack of apparent connection.

Howard Aiken, who built the quickly-obsoleted electromechanical calculator, the Harvard Mark I, between 1937 and 1945, praised Babbage's work likely as a way of enhancing his own stature, but knew nothing of the Analytical Engine's architecture during the construction of the Mark I, and considered his visit to the constructed portion of the Analytical Engine " the greatest disappointment of my life ".

" Austrian historian Ernst Stein praised Ammianus as " the greatest literary genius that the world produced between Tacitus and Dante ".

Louis Pasteur observed, " if we could intervene in the antagonism observed between some bacteria, it would offer perhaps the greatest hopes for therapeutics ".

" ( Wills is quoted as saying, " I rode horeseback from the place between the rivers to Childress to see Bessie Smith ... She was about the greatest thing I had ever heard.

The greatest number of single family homes ( 3, 474 ) were built between 1919 and 1945.

Covalency is greatest between atoms of similar electronegativities.

It considers the connection between perfect numbers and Mersenne primes, the infinitude of prime numbers, Euclid's lemma on factorization ( which leads to the fundamental theorem of arithmetic on uniqueness of prime factorizations ), and the Euclidean algorithm for finding the greatest common divisor of two numbers.

This was the greatest moment of friction between Fascism and National Socialism and Mussolini himself came down several times to reaffirm the differences in the field.

The final nonzero remainder r < sub > N − 1 </ sub > is the greatest common divisor of a and b. The number N cannot be infinite because there are only a finite number of nonnegative integers between the initial remainder r < sub > 0 </ sub > and zero.

Reaction to the original movie is still mixed, and TV Guide called it a " laughable clash between the two greatest movie monsters ".

The greatest number of single family homes ( 277 ) were built between 1919 and 1945.

For all positive data sets containing at least one pair of unequal values, the harmonic mean is always the least of the three means, while the arithmetic mean is always the greatest of the three and the geometric mean is always in between ( see Inequality of arithmetic and geometric means.

Though greatest and earliest free-standing temple to Hera was the Heraion of Samos, in the Greek mainland Hera was especially worshipped as " Argive Hera " ( Hera Argeia ) at her sanctuary that stood between the former Mycenaean city-states of Argos and Mycenae, where the festivals in her honor called Heraia were celebrated.

In mathematical analysis, the intermediate value theorem states that for each value between the least upper bound and greatest lower bound of the image of a continuous function there is at least one point in its domain that the function maps to that value.

Judaism also universally recognizes the Biblical Covenant between God and the Patriarch Abraham as well as the additional aspects of the Covenant revealed to Moses, who is considered Judaism's greatest prophet.

At its greatest extent, Jamaica is, and its width varies between.

On 19 May 1940 Ribbentrop met the new Italian Ambassador Dino Alfieri, who described the meeting as follows :" He commented at length on the " dazzling " successes of the German armies, extolling the military genius of the Führer ... who had " revealed himself as the greatest military genius since Napoleon "... He spoke of the inevitable clash between the young nations and the old ; of the necessity of breaking the ring with which the Judaeo-democratic-plutocratic powers were trying to encircle Germany and Italy ; and of the need to create a new European civilization.

The greatest number of single family homes ( 498 ) were built between 1919 and 1945.

Achard's greatest successes and popularity were in the period between the two World Wars when contemporary critics favorably compared him to some of his renowned French predecessors such as Pierre de Marivaux and Alfred de Musset.

The greatest extremes of rainfall are between.

Occupying a central position on the great highway between the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean, thus uniting the East and the West, wealth flowed into it from many sources, so that it became one of the greatest of all the region's ancient cities, and the capital of the Neo Assyrian Empire.

Ozone concentrations are greatest between about, where they range from about 2 to 8 parts per million.