Sentence examples for as preeminence from inspiring English sources

Pericles and his friends were never immune from attack, as preeminence in democratic Athens was not equivalent to absolute rule.

Though they were influential, Pericles, Aspasia and their friends were not immune from attack, as preeminence in democratic Athens was not equivalent to absolute rule.

The Intel Corporation and the Society for Science & the Public recently announced the winners of this year's Intel Science Talent Search -- America's most elite and demanding high school research competition, and one that has taken on even greater national importance, as U.S. preeminence in scientific innovation is challenged as never before.

The challenge to U.S. preeminence is as profound as that which faced Britain after World War II, when it was met with similar demands from its colonies on their right to aspire to their own place in the world.

Aiming to restore the country to a position of moral as well as military preeminence in the world, he called for massive increases in the defense budget to expand and modernize the military and urged a more aggressive approach to combating communism and related forms of leftist totalitarianism.

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.

In the 1720s and '30s Amritsar emerged as a centre of Sikh activity, partly because of its preeminence as a pilgrimage centre.

We'll see Western preeminence as an important but temporary historical blip.

For decades, the two sections jostled with each other, vying for preeminence as the nation expanded.

The second is the law school's preeminence as a seat of legal scholarship.

Hollywood was said to owe its preeminence as a motion-picture production centre to its sunny climate.