While the modern student may tend to pay more attention to the girdle as the eminent object offered by the lady, readers in the time of Gawain would have noticed the significance of the offer of the ring as they believed that rings, and especially the embedded gems, had talismanic properties.
We lack the resources to acquire pre-eminent objects.
The object of the will, the supreme Good, is more eminent than the object of the intellect, which is the truth, i.e. the good, of a given thing and is thus a subordinate good.
It's a better school, more difficult to get into and worthy of being singled out by your eminent publication as the object of desire of New Jersey parents making difficult decisions about where to send their orange and black seeking offspring.
Answering an elderly and eminent writer friend who objected to the increasing role that sex seemed to play in Begley's fiction, Begley wrote, "I give sex a prominent and not always pleasant place because it is so terrifyingly strong in directing people's lives.
The city's action caused a huge outcry from the people in the 34 homes, 29 businesses and 2 churches that make up the neighborhood, as well as from residents of the nearby Village of Larchmont and the Town of Mamaroneck, who worry about traffic and other effects and objected to using eminent domain laws to help a private business.
For the most part, said Frank J. Garito, president of the New Rochelle Neighborhood Revitalization Corporation, residents are welcoming the project, although the city may have to take some land by eminent domain if some property owners object.
When European data privacy advocates and politicians objected to the program, the eminent French counterterrorism judge Jean-Louis Burguière was assigned to review the program in detail for the European Parliament.
He objected to the use of eminent domain to seize the private land for the development, and to the way the approval process was routed through the state, cutting local officials out of the picture, among many other things.
Most recently, as the Interior Department tried to increase pressure on landowners, a Somerset County commissioner, Pamela Tokaresigned resigned from the Flight 93 Advisory Commission because she objected to the idea of using eminent domain to take the land.
The other objects to the city's use of its eminent domain powers to condemn land needed for the library project.
