By the 17th century, portraiture, once a trophy art, was considered a low-prestige genre; Rembrandt's old man suggests why.
We thus give evidence of the Abrams and Strogatz remark: language coexistence is unstable if we consider a fixed prestige, but introducing the prestige as a control variable of the model enables the maintenance of a bilingual society, where both languages have a density above a critical value.
Law school was once considered a ticket to prestige, job security, and career satisfaction.
Kazakhstan spent years campaigning to lead the O.S.C.E., which it considered a token of international prestige, and repeatedly countered arguments that its political freedoms fell short of the organization's standards.
Collecting instruments also may have been considered a mark of wealth and prestige, because some nobles assembled enormous collections, in which winds figure prominently.
Swissair's earlier two-day grounding left nearly 40,000 passengers stranded worldwide, and was considered a serious blow to Swiss prestige.
"Food is considered a measure of their power and prestige.
The paper loss, however, represents a blow to the prestige of the bank, an institution once considered a bastion of probity to rival the old German Bundesbank.
Despite its prestige, local advantage and engineering prowess, Cornell was considered a bit of an underdog in the competition.
Eternity, a top-10 prestige fragrance sold mostly in department stores, is considered a classic that competes with other mainstays, like Chanel No. 5.
