Sentence examples for eminent example of from inspiring English sources

Neither could the argument have been any different, of course, regarding the Pisan-Romanesque architecture of our churches, also long worshipped in all manner of common speech, as an eminent example of "sardità".

An eminent example of harm induced by males to females in an attempt to maximize their mating rate and fertilization success is represented by Drosophila melanogaster, in which courtship and transfer of seminal fluid are known to increase female mortality rate and decrease lifetime reproductive success while increasing male competitive abilities [ 22].

It's a pre-eminent example of art besting reality.

And the car industry's privileged status as the pre-eminent example of the power of mass production looks finished.

Hardwick's work is the pre-eminent example of what can result when intelligence-literary is brought to bear on the sideshows of American history.

The editor who transformed the Post from an undistinguished local sheet into an international name was now the pre-eminent example of how fearless pursuit of truth could still restore integrity by unseating its abusers, however powerful.

Sleepy, socially conservative Catholic Ireland is now the globe's pre-eminent example of progressive democratic social and legal change by voting in a referendum to legalise same-sex marriage.

It's a pre-eminent example of what could be called the new International Style in television drama: a moody, slow-moving, complicated crime story with damaged heroes and not much redemption to go around.

It helped persuade him, a year later, to launch a "Sustainable Living Plan", the name for his attempt to make Unilever the pre-eminent example of how to do capitalism responsibly, just as it had once been under Lever.Outdoing even the Cadburys of Birmingham and the Rowntrees of York, Lever had pioneered the Victorian model of paternalistic business.

The pre-eminent example of violence taming violence, he says, is religion, which arose out of the practice of human sacrifice — a ritual that enabled a community to channel and purge its primitive impulses in a single cathartic act of collective bloodletting.

"One critic said it was the pre-eminent example of terrible urban planning," said Mr. Cullen of Rock Ventures, who formerly worked for G.M. and helped champion the idea of buying the RenCen, as everyone here calls it, and moving the company in.