Ultimately, though, it was Stevens — probably Wyler's only rival as the pre-eminent prestige director of the 1950s — who got the assignment, perhaps because of a personal connection to the material: as the head of a film unit of the United States Army Signal Corps, he had been present at the liberation of Dachau.
Eminent physician and healer.
Eminent designers were there to offer critiques.
Eminent physicist, great friend and collaborator.
The law firms that are surging are terrific, albeit just below the size and prestige of the most eminent names.
With expensive, prestige products, the high price delivers the prestige.
By the 1600s, when Bruges had lost its prestige and position as the pre-eminent European trading city (the rivers silted and ports were forced to close), the Italians dominated European art.
The findings are likely to have a major impact, given the prestige of the institute, a private organization of eminent lawyers, judges and legal scholars that has had immense influence on the development of American law since the group was founded in 1923.
The study found that "the city has become a pre-eminent location for capital accumulation and wealth storage, particularly in prestige areas (the prime and super-prime [housing] markets), yet it has also become the playground of the extremely wealthy".
For Russia, the new arrangement amounts to considerably less than full membership, though it will now have a say on many questions important to it and the prestige of association with the West's pre-eminent military alliance.
Higher education experts have said the system has fallen short of Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller's goal of being a pre-eminent higher education system and lacks research institutions close to the prestige of the University of California, Berkeley, or the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
