In July, I began asking prominent Democrats their views on substantive policy questions.
Then the killer began targeting prominent white women, and the story went national, reaching the New York Times.
When the American Revolution began, more prominent Dutch families the Van Cortlandts, De Peysters, and Schuylers supported the cause than did their English counterparts.
In his 40's and 50's, Price began winning prominent commercial commissions like railroad stations and resort hotels.
Her Vogue covers began featuring prominent women (including actresses Nicole Kidman and Angelina Jolie and politician Hillary Clinton) rather than exclusively using models.
When the Guardian began printing prominent notes and corrections, it was seen on other titles as a feeble, liberal, American affectation.
So when local military commanders began encouraging prominent people in their neighborhoods to form the councils over the summer, none of the officers knew what to expect.
Meanwhile, they began financing prominent politicians, including Senators Robert Dole of Kansas, a Republican, and Alan Cranston of California, a Democrat (obituary, January 2 2001).
For a time, it had no special envoy to the region, and when it began sending prominent officials there, most recently Secretary Powell, it did so without explicit mandates, according to American and other diplomats.
In 2006, recognizing the enormous environmental impact posed by hundreds of millions of enthusiastic consumers of shark fin, WildAid, a San Francisco-based nonprofit, began a prominent campaign to educate the Chinese public, blanketing state television and social media with public service announcements by Yao Ming, Jackie Chan, and Richard Branson.
