Sentence examples for because of prestige from inspiring English sources

Like the power stations in Soviet-era Russia, they are being built not because of demand but because of prestige.

Because of prestige and backed up by a sound financial position, the director and supervisory board continued the project and step by step saw their initially planned €24 million budget, increase to more than €65 million and to €136 million in 2007.

Middle- and high-income consumers will consume new clothes from multinationals because of prestige, but if they would buy some used clothes from poor local merchants, that would help development more than buying new clothes from multinationals.

Institutional imbalances occur when some health care facilities have too many staff because of prestige, working conditions, ability to generate additional income, or other situation-specific factors, while others are understaffed [ 73].

The Soviet Government could do this without loss of prestige because prestige is a question for the weak, not the strong.

Marian Anderson discovered that she stands today in a position of fame and of prestige because somebody in the background helped her to get there.

However, popularity is a very restricted measure of prestige because it takes only direct choices into account.

She wanted only women in positions of prestige because, according to her, women are less obsessed with military power and make better mediators.

Seniors apply to schools without even knowing what region of the country they're in (no, I'm not kidding; I just heard about a boy who was surprised to learn that Duke University, which was on his short list, was in the south), because the school reeks of prestige.

"A close second would be Wimbledon because of the prestige.

Cuts at Random House draw particular attention because of the prestige of some of its houses.