By accepting the position at the head of the party's candidate list, Mr. Putin instantaneously lent the party his vast domestic political stature — and, in all likelihood, the resources of the Russian government — to its efforts to extend its dominance in Russia's 450-seat Duma, the lower house of Parliament.
At the moment Lord Dholakia, the party's president, a figure slight in stature but vast in dignity, arrived to present an award for best stall at the conference, the man on the screen was screaming: "She's a slag, she's been shagging behind my back!" Lord Dholakia took one look, then whizzed away at impressive speed for one so short.
This was not a sentimental stance: de Gaulle had made a strategic decision to bolster France's stature in the vast Arab world, which in 1967 meant largely abandoning Israel.
Like natural disaster, dictatorship is primal, elemental Dictators are truly, disturbingly spooky: criminals, yes, but criminals translated to the stature of monolithic governments controlling vast populations.
Nonetheless, this papal interregnum has become an important period for him, presenting an opportunity for him to use mass media to reach Catholics in his vast and diverse archdiocese, and to elevate his stature as he faces battles with President Obama over health insurance regulations and with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York over a proposed liberalization of the state's abortion laws.
The person also said he thought a vast majority of the Hall of Fame's members were primarily concerned that their stature not be cheapened by Rose's election.
Some of the manuscripts consist of huge dumps of every poem the author had written and not collected over their entire life, amassing vast catalogues of language, arrangement; others, rather, have particular intents of such unwieldy stature that they were likely imagined never to be seen by the world ever at all.
Such debates and discoveries continue to attract vast crowds and to stimulate curators, academics, and practicing artists, suggesting that Degas's full stature has yet to be fully measured.
Despite vast availability of modern methods of treatment of chronic kidney disease and its complications, the short stature still is a major point of concern in adolescents with chronic kidney disease.
