Sentence examples for a preeminence from inspiring English sources

However, a preeminence of the liquid foaming character is found.

This was also confirmed by return map plots and mutual information function which showed a preeminence of periodic behavior in the tracer trajectory with increasing gas velocity.

William Butler Yeats called Dante "the chief imagination of Christendom"; and T.S. Eliot elevated Dante to a preeminence shared by only one other poet in the modern world, William Shakespeare: "[They] divide the modern world between them.

Although the pasha of Baghdad was accorded a certain preeminence as governor of the most important city in Ottoman Iraq (as was the governor of Damascus in Syria), this in no way implied the unity of the five eyālets.

Such conjectural, or divinatory, criticism has in the past enjoyed a traditional preeminence: Dr. Johnson observed that William Warburton's correction of "good" to "god" in the second act of Hamlet (scene 2, line 182) almost set the critic on a level with the author.

Some, such as the Italian anthropologist Raffaele Pettazzoni (1883 1959), have stressed merely that a sky god has a certain natural preeminence; others emphasize that the high god is often a deus otiosus ("idle god")—i.e., not active in the world and hence not the recipient of a functioning cult.

Futter has a genius for what is known in the business world as positioning; and she is quite consciously positioning her institution for a return to a long-forgotten preeminence.

The transfer of the capital also occasioned a dispute between Rome ("Old Rome") and Constantinople ("New Rome") over whether the new capital should be entitled to a commensurate ecclesiastical preeminence alongside the see (seat of a bishop's office) of Peter.

The diagnosis of CD is typically considered between 13 and 64 years of age, with an average of 22 years; a slight female preeminence is noted [ 9, 18].

German linguist who gained a position of preeminence in comparative Indo-European linguistics during the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a result of his comprehensive and still-authoritative research in this field.

His 17 years as headmaster brought Trinity to a position of preeminence among independent schools in New York and throughout the nation.