1.   He comes from a very distinguished family, of course, with a tragic history.

2.   Annan has a striking partner in his wife, Nane Lagergren, a lawyer and artist born of two distinguished Swedish families.

3.   A literary critic and journalist as well as a novelist, Bazin came from a distinguished literary family.

4.   But being the son or daughter of a distinguished family does not guarantee success at the polls.

5.   He came from a distinguished family of lawyers and diplomats.

6.   His mother was part of a distinguished German literary family.

7.   If the Khmer Rouge had not seized power, it would have been unheard of for a member of such a distinguished family to work in a kitchen.

8.   In reality, Harrison, a member of a distinguished family, was born and reared at Berkeley, a grand plantation on the James River in Virginia.

9.   Jamal comes from a distinguished family, a detail that spoils at least one of his pitches to Lola.

10.   Jean Royere came from a distinguished French family and became a banker after studying the classics at Cambridge.