Sentence examples for eminence from inspiring English sources

While their growing eminence may or may not presage a new era of European dominance, their swelling popularity reveals the power of their thumb-twitching pastime — and how eager golf fans are for vivid personalities.

As it is, this season's other dames include Dianne Thompson, who ran the National Lottery, an executive from Nestlé, for services to Kit Kats, and another actor, Kristin Scott Thomas, whose qualifications for eminence are unquestioned thanks to gracious performances in A Handful of Dust, Gosford Park and, imminently, in The Audience (as the Queen).

Plenty on Merseyside did not love the man whose teams so often challenged their eminence.

Perhaps some of these countries should be called re-emerging economies, because they are regaining their former eminence.

A dedicated networker and an inspired gossip, Mr Greig has produced a small, highly readable life of the artist.Lucian Freud was born in Berlin, a grandson of Sigmund, whose eminence helped the whole family to obtain British citizenship just before the outbreak of war in 1939.

Richard Perle, an eminence grise of American defence, called for Russia to be kicked out of the G8.

Michel Camdessus, a former IMF director who made Mr Ouattara one of his deputies, says he has "exceptional integrity, judgment and intellectual rigour" and is "admirably prepared" to return his country, once the region's most prosperous, to the economic eminence it enjoyed in the 1970s.As for the allegation that Mr Ouattara will personify a north-south division, that is too simple.

MORE a duty than a pleasure, Yasuo Fukuda, a grey eminence of the Liberal Democratic Party LDPP), is Japan's new prime minister.