Sentence examples for Preeminence from inspiring English sources

Richardson said she applied for the Oxford post as the culmination of a lifetime's ambition, and paid tribute to the university's international preeminence and successful fundraising campaigns.

Even IBM has failed to create a band gap in graphene that would result in a digital device capable of challenging silicon's preeminence.

Alexandria remained a distinguished centre of learning until the 5th century AD, although periodic strife between pagans, Christians and Jews eroded its preeminence.

Itō's preeminence continued in the 1890s.

Memphis reached preeminence by the 3rd dynasty.

German idealist philosophers sought thereby to restore reason to its former preeminence and grandeur as the universal tool through which human understanding of reality is possible.

Concern in London over the electoral victory by the Afrikaner party Het Volk evaporated as soon as it became clear that both Botha and Smuts understood the economic preeminence of mining capital.

The twin monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow achieved preeminence in the intellectual life not only of England but also of western Europe.

Early in the Tokugawa period (1603 1867) Kyōto maintained its old cultural preeminence.

Kant held that all humans, in their awareness of and reverence for the categorical imperative (i.e., the notion that one must act as though what one does can become a universal law), share in the one religion and that the preeminence of Christianity lay in the conspicuous way in which Jesus enshrined the moral ideal.

The first known stage of the nature religions is called polydaemonistic (many spirits) magical religion, which is dominated by animism and characterized by a confused mythology, a firm faith in magic, and the preeminence of fear above other religious emotions.