But for some whites, the election of the country's first black president was also a powerful symbol of their declining pre-eminence in American society.
The warehouse declined with the pre-eminence of trucking and railway transportation, and was mostly abandoned in the 1950's.
New York, which had historically accounted for two-thirds of profits, was given a greater share of the combined firm, just as its eminence began to decline.
As artists train, paint and sell in more and more different cities, the pre-eminence of New York and Los Angeles is bound to decline.The end of a bi-polar American art world is what the 2000 Whitney Biennial at least glimpses.
What bothers Mr. Powhida and several others in the art world who declined to be named for fear of offending wealthy collectors is the pre-eminence of money at the expense of work that challenges the artistic and economic status quo.
While Xuanzang and Kuiji lived, the school achieved some degree of eminence and popularity, but with the passing of the two masters the school rapidly declined.
StO2 is measured on the thenar eminence and transient rapid vascular occlusion of the arm by sphygmomanometer inflation to 30 mmHg above systolic pressure is performed either for a defined time interval, usually 3 min, or until StO2 declines to some threshold minimal value, usually 40%.
Domestic racial and ethnic conflict, in turn, could well be subordinated to transnational turmoil as America's pre-eminence declines and as global competition for markets, for food, for energy, for high-tech professionals, for arable land and for sanctuaries from climate change intensify.
Despite Chikamatsu's eminence, however, the decline in popularity of puppet plays has resulted in most members of the theatregoing public being unfamiliar with his work, except in the abridgments and considerably revised versions used in Kabuki theatre, on film, and elsewhere.
But his eminence has suffered the usual decline of dead poets trying to breathe through the death-mask of translation.
51, 52 It is difficult to make a judgment on the pre-eminence of cognitive decline over motor decline, although it is probable that cognitive deterioration, even if undiagnosed, occurs before a change in postural and locomotor patterns.
