Sentence examples for * low prestige from inspiring English sources

The trades suffer from low prestige, and I believe this is based on a simple mistake.

That is why New York speech has a low prestige even among its own speakers".

A summer of hard work and low prestige have left her sounding like a convert to her father's cause.

But in two of the experiments, the participants were told their committees were either of high or low prestige: headed either by the dean of the college or a student researcher.

Perhaps President Bush and other leaders who deliver commencement addresses at the nation's most prestigious universities ought instead to appear at lesser-known colleges that train health workers and other young people about to embark on careers of low prestige but of very high value to society.

The United States remains the main consumer for both Colombia's cocaine and Venezuela's oil, but Washington's low prestige in much of the Andes has left Mr. Uribe, boxed in by pro-Chávez governments in Ecuador and Bolivia, with little choice but to strengthen bonds with Mr. Chávez.

By the 17th century, portraiture, once a trophy art, was considered a low-prestige genre; Rembrandt's old man suggests why.

Students assigned to the low-prestige committees were, again, less nervous, on average, about choosing a female participant.

Over the past quarter century, university preparation of educational administrators has fallen into a downward spiral dominated by low-prestige institutions, diploma mills, outmoded instruction and low expectations.

Some biographers suggest that Burney destroyed Caroline Evelyn because she feared the disapproval of her new stepmother; Burney herself explained that she had become ashamed of writing in the then low-prestige genre of the novel.

Valli's willingness to take on the debt meant that he would be on the road most of the time, for years to come, playing gigs at low-prestige venues.