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Kenny added that Fr Doyle was held in great esteem by his own men, but was also noted for his kindness and mercy towards injured German prisoners-of-war.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

“Thank you for praising me,” Mr. Brookhiser writes in summarizing Lafayette’s speeches, “but thank you above all for causing the world to esteem America.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

It’s been a beacon of democracy since its founding, and countries all over the world have held it in such high esteem.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

A French speaker, Leo had expressed on various occasions "the great esteem in which he holds our country and her spiritual history", Aveline said earlier in May.

From Barron's ● May 16, 2026

He was, by all accounts, a kindly man who gained the esteem of everyone who met him.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

Freaks are scroungers, thrifters, salvagers; they’re unmatched in their ability to repurpose the discarded, to find value in things — and in people — that it sometimes seems nobody else wants or esteems.

From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2024

“I know that he esteems her a lot, like all the Jesuits of Argentina and Uruguay, because they consider her their spiritual mother,” Correale told The Associated Press in the runup to the ceremony.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 11, 2024

The great irony, or the sublime absurdity, is that like a priest who practices his faith after the death of God, Daoud esteems Camus even as he exposes the Nobel Prize-winning writer’s blind spots.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2015

PEN esteems not only exquisite literature, but also the right of all people to express themselves.

From Slate ● May 6, 2015

Whatever man loves or esteems highly, he endeavours to represent to himself by symbols.

From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Henry Digby Beste

In a country that esteemed practicality, fiction was enlisted to speak directly to a cause.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

This title is only awarded by the Congolese president to the most esteemed public figures.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026

In 1995, this risky act helped the family secure the esteemed Payaso de Oro: the top prize at the International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo, an award comparable to soccer’s Ballon d’Or or music’s Grammy.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

Immigrants lived near the mission, and esteemed Spanish Mexican families lived in large mansions around the churches that dot Old Town in the mid-19th century — many came post-Spanish-Mexican wars.

From Salon ● May 9, 2026

“But no, those words come from a poem written by the esteemed poet and linguist Master Lumumba. Do you know what they mean?”

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

What nudged Americans from esteeming fastidious high-culture figures like Muck to idolizing personally crude pop-culture stars like Ruth?

From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2020

The Russians, esteeming ceremony as a proud proletarian power should, outdid themselves in welcome.

From Time Magazine Archive

With an education so neglected as mine, I should run the hazard of either unjustly depreciating my own judgment, or what is worse, esteeming it at more than its worth.

From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever

And this he did from a sense of its suitableness to promote the best ends and aims; esteeming his gifts and accomplishments due to pursuits which seemed the natural means of securing self-respect and independence.

From Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott

Her grandmother's mode of esteeming mankind was certainly extraordinary.

From Countess Erika's Apprenticeship by Ossip Schubin