Sentence examples for eminent collection from inspiring English sources

The "Getty Bronze," a 300s BC highlight of Los Angeles' most eminent collection of classical antiquities, depicts a slender young athlete frozen in a moment of triumph.

Competitiveness kicked in, and he looked for uncharted territory (in collecting terms, at least) where he could assemble the pre-eminent collection.

"By acquiring the new collection, Cambridge would be further enhancing its already pre-eminent collection of Newton's scientific writing".

When looters descended upon the Iraq Museum in Baghdad last week, they despoiled one of the world's pre-eminent collection of artifacts from the Tigris and Euphrates Valleys.

Mr. Goedhuis said his investors' "original concept" was to "build the pre-eminent collection of Chinese contemporary art as the basis of a great book".

He had wanted to build a pre-eminent collection and leave it to the museum at Princeton (which he ultimately did).

Site of the National Museum of Iraq, which has the world's pre-eminent collection of Mesopotamian antiquities, including a 4,000-year-old 4,000-year-old 4,000-year-oldandsilverlay tablets.

Mr. Lucas, who once owned an illustration gallery in New York called Super Sniper, nowadays owns one of the pre-eminent collections of magazine illustration in this country.

Ruth Carter Stevenson, who followed her father's last wishes in creating the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, one of the nation's pre-eminent collections of American art, died on Jan . 6at her home in Fort Worth.

Its design holdings include Europe's pre-eminent collections of ceramics and fine metalwork.

Three of the museum's permanent collections are housed in the Yorkshire Museum building all of which have English designated collection status, which means they are "pre-eminent collections of national and international importance".