There are the obvious accomplishments that have affirmed the region's continued prominence, chief among them the naming of El Celler de Can Roca as the second best restaurant in the world this year by San Pellegrino in its World's 50 Best Restaurants list.
Olivier Blanchard Blanchard came to prominence as chief economist at the International Monetary Fund.
But it was Mr. Bennet's position as public schools chief that earned him prominence.
A striking feature of the gathering this year was the prominence of chief information officers of old-line companies like American Airlines and General Motors.
Chief rabbis came into prominence in medieval Europe but found little favour with the Jewish communities that they represented, because most of them held their posts as appointees of the civil government.
Twelve days before the Games began, a pedestrian footbridge collapsed, injuring 23, and brought Delhi's chief minister Sheila Dikshit to prominence and scatalogical japing about her name from Australia threatened a diplomatic incident.
He came to prominence as chief investment strategist at James Capel, both as a first-rate and entertaining speaker in the otherwise often dull world of fund management conferences and also with his lively and direct weekly column, "From Your Side of the Desk".
Two years later, that decision has taken on new prominence after Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. accused Mr. Obama from the bench on Wednesday of not having "the courage of his convictions" for continuing to enforce the marriage law even after concluding that it violated constitutional equal protection guarantees.
When regional chief Ratu Seva inherited prominence, the Johnstons were invited to his initiation ceremony.
For example, the Sauk Native American leader Black Hawk, who in 1832 led a band of Sauk and Fox in the Black Hawk War, was not a member of the Sauk chiefs' council and, despite his prominence as a warrior and spokesman, was never recognized as a chief by the Sauk tribe.
