The fact that she's little-known today is a shame.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Purpose-Driven Wife] Reference

Many of these institutions are little-known state or local banks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Make Them Pay] Reference

She's replaced by Irene Halligan, a little-known etiquette expert.    From Wordnik.com.  [The State Of Affairs] Reference

Bush's legal team also points to a little-known 1887 statute in the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [Here Come The Justices] Reference

That changed in 1989, when little-known Slobodan Milosevic came to power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yugoslavia: The Worst Outcome?] Reference

And because few speak English, Chinese CEOs are little-known in the West.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rock Star CEOs] Reference

He also uses a common, little-known app that records a user's Internet activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cybercrooks, Beware: Here Come The Cybercops] Reference

A far brighter light illuminated two little-known Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americans Go To War] Reference

Uribe was a little-known politician with a law-and-order platform when he took office in 2002.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uribe’s Legacy] Reference

The other, much smaller book presented 83 images by a little-known Swiss émigré named Robert Frank.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Terrible Beauty] Reference

In 1942, a little-known Michigan-born journalist living in Europe decided to write a cookbook of sorts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Finer Things] Reference

A little-known condition until recently, RLS is estimated to affect as much as 10 percent of the population.    From Wordnik.com.  ['I Know I'm Not the Only One'] Reference

Next up: Jeong Ji Hoon, a.k.a. Rain, a pop superstar in much of Asia but still little-known on the global stage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Korea Takes Hollywood] Reference

The players include: The Commodity Credit Corporation: This little-known federal agency, a subsidiary of the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Iraq-Gate': Were We Soft On Saddam?] Reference

So they turned to a contractor — not a well-regarded scientific firm, but a little-known Web site called InnoCentive.    From Wordnik.com.  [It’s Getting Crowded in Here] Reference

Knowing he faced steep odds, Hua set to work on a little-known last hope for the bounced applicant: the letter of appeal.    From Wordnik.com.  [APPEALING A REJECTION LETTER] Reference

A little-known element of Saatchi's vast collection has now taken pride of place in his impressive South Bank space in London.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back From the Wilderness] Reference

Last week the little-known 60-year-old novelist and dramatist became the first Chinese-born writer to win the award for literature.    From Wordnik.com.  [A First For China] Reference

On the other hand, the little-known regional capital of Valencia fits the profile economists look for: it's a small city on a roll.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sailing to Success] Reference

Since the 1950s, however, a little-known technique called growth-suppression therapy has been used to stave off future growth medically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tall Girls] Reference

The St. Nicolaas Boat Club is a little-known gem that offers daily tours on their small fleet of quaint, authentically Dutch canal boats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Globalization’s First Outpost] Reference

A little-known fact about a symphony orchestra: the oboe must first sound a particular note for the other instruments to tune accordingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irrational Strength] Reference

Fujimori was a little-known university rector in 1989 when he formed a brand-new political party and announced plans to run for president.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return of the Caudillo] Reference

The blacklist compiled by the World Bank, widely seen as an arm of Washington influence, includes 80 mostly small, little-known companies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End Of Swag?] Reference

By the end of the week Yeltsin had named Sergei Kiriyenko, a little-known 35-year-old fuel-industry bureaucrat, to the prime minister's post.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is This Any Way To Run A Country?] Reference

In contrast to America, young and little-known European designers often have a good chance to win plum commissions through frequent design competitions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Architecture] Reference

Richard Nixon, the little-known youngster (he was 39) chosen by Eisenhower to handle the rabid commiebashing portion of the 1952 campaign, is the prototype.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slipping On The Second Banana] Reference

In Redlands, a small desert town 70 miles east of Los Angeles, there is a little-known software company called ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Practical Futurist: When Maps Go Live] Reference

Here's a little-known fact: Housing may be more affordable now than at any recent time, thanks to lower prices and falling mortgage rates (now about 5 percent).    From Wordnik.com.  [Wrong Turn on Housing] Reference

U.S. researchers believe a previously little-known disease called Israeli acute paralysis virus is involved, while Spanish researchers suspect a fungus called Nosema.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stung By Bees] Reference

(American authorities justified the assassination under a little-known 1993 "lethal finding" signed by President Bill Clinton that gave permission to target terrorists.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Evil In The Cross Hairs] Reference

The book is enjoying a lively ride online, in spite of the fact that it's been reviewed almost nowhere and its editor is a little-known writer and teacher from Minneapolis.    From Wordnik.com.  [BeliefWatch: How To] Reference

The most notable such occasion this season was when a little-known Pittsburgh Steelers safety, in the starting lineup only because of injury, guaranteed a victory over the Pats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eli's Coming] Reference

History is repeating itself with another little-known governor from an obscure state vaulting ahead of the pack to become the favorite for the Democratic nomination for president.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capitol Letter: The Anti-Democrat] Reference