Sentence examples for claim to prestige from inspiring English sources
In contrast to the austere Cato, other senators laid claim to prestige by collecting Greek art and books brought back by conquering armies, by staging plays modeled on Greek drama, and by commissioning literary works, public buildings, and private sculptural monuments in a Greek style.
We have suggested previously (Zahavi, 1995; Zahavi, 2008) that this investment constitutes the handicap that proves the honesty of the claim to prestige.
Zahavi (1977); Zahavi (1990); Zahavi (1995) and Zahavi & Zahavi (1997) contended that many altruistic acts can be explained as activities that signal the performer's claim to social prestige, and that increase rather than decrease the fitness of the altruist.
Greater prestige still and a claim to imperial hegemony fell to the Saxon rulers when they broke the impetus of the Hungarian (Magyar) invasions, against which the military resources and methods of western European society had almost wholly failed for several decades.
His reasons were, internally, to enhance his prestige and, externally, to counter the Fāṭimid claim to this honour.
From this perspective, Expo 2015 could be the turning point, the opportunity to boost Milan's prestige and provide the perfect arena to reassert our claim to greatness.
As Donatello's Marzocco for the papal apartment in Santa Maria Novella conveyed Florence's ambivalence towards Martin V (as both a source of prestige by visiting, and a potential adversary of the Republic), the lions supporting the bier contextualize the tomb monument's support for John XXIII's claim to the papacy by cementing it as a Florentine claim.
For Emma Smith, a professor whose work with Laurie Maguire is cited in the New Oxford press release, Taylor's attachment to Big Data is part of a larger attempt to claim the prestige of science for Shakespeare scholarship.
