From the start, upper-class New Yorkers have been open and aggressive in their behavior, keen on attaining prestige, power, and wealth.
Results showed that young drivers who were influenced by their peers to attain social prestige and through peers intervening in their decisions committed more driving violations.
The major socioreligious institution of Vanuatu was the graded society, a hierarchical system of ceremonies performed by men and women to attain greater prestige.
However intense the new campaign praising Mr. Jiang, few think he can attain the prestige of Deng, who remained China's effective leader through much of the 1980's and 1990's even as he shed formal titles.
But just a whiff of shoddiness, even if it is by association, could taint the rollout of a brand that's asking consumers to drop Mercedes-Benz money on a car from Korea, which never before has sent such a pricey car to America and whose cars have yet to attain the prestige of European and Japanese rivals.
The Rome Opera, whose ornate old auditorium is trapped behind a cold modernist façade, has never attained the prestige of La Scala.
Bell founding attained considerable prestige, and the introduction of gunpowder in the 14th century added cannon making to the founder's output.
In 1897 Schiff attained considerable prestige in banking circles when he provided the financial backing that enabled railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman to purchase control of the bankrupt Union Pacific Railroad.
Berberian College, founded by him, attained high prestige.
Magic enjoyed a vigorous revival in sixteenth-century Europe, attaining a prestige lost for over a millennium and becoming, for some, a kind of universal philosophy.
This was the same role Yemenite field-workers played in the agricultural settlements, and neither group attained cultural prestige or empowerment as a result of its labor.
