This is troubling, since the show goes beyond the impressive collection to present the family itself, its history and cross-Atlantic hoppings, and its eminent position within le Paris des artistes.
However, he proved to be rather colourless in this eminent position and was easily eclipsed, in the reign of Henry VIII, by Thomas Wolsey, to whom he had to surrender the chancellorship in 1515.
The French Revolution imperilled the fortunes of the Cavours because of their close ties with the ancien régime; but Cavour's father, Michele, reestablished the family in an eminent position in Napoleonic society.
In 1917, because of his Zionist sympathies and his eminent position in the Anglo-Jewish community, he received the letter from Arthur James (later Lord Balfourr, then British foreign secretary, declaring the British government's interest in establishing in Palestine a national home for the Jewish people; this letter became known as the Balfour Declaration.
Charming, gregarious, remarkably acute autobiographical observations by a top practitioner of literary theory (at Cambridge, then Oxford, now Manchester) who was born into Britain's Irish Catholic working class but earned his present eminent position, very high and way over on the left.
And although he enjoyed praise and gratitude, they never seemed to go to his head; he never usurped the primary role of the author or congratulated himself or became puffed up about his sharp eye for talent or his eminent position.
Now it holds an eminent position as a venue for research on sensory test methods (among many other topics).
The female meanwhile sits in an eminent position and preens, returning to the nest a minute or two before the male arrives with food for her.
The figure is a record for the Silicon Valley giants in year that saw major tech companies go out of their way to please Republicans — donating to campaigns, throwing swank parties, and even hiring more conservatives — in order to maintain tech's eminent position in the Washington D.C. pecking order.
Ironically, given the Saudi short-term role in quashing California's hopes for a fracking-based economic bonanza and the long-term Saudi role as the single most powerful element in the ancien regime of oil driving the greenhouse effect which California's long-range policies are designed to control, California itself is in part responsible for the eminent position which the Kingdom holds.
