A high proportion of eminent scientists and scholars have been firstborns, perhaps owing to the aforementioned traits, but firstborns also tend to be less receptive to ideas that challenge a popular ideological or theoretical position.
In populations with a high proportion of lactose-tolerant individuals, due to the high frequency of lactase gene mutation contributing to the persistent intestinal lactase production during adulthood, lactose intake from the diet is relatively eminent.
The eminent vulnerability among urban poor women is further demonstrated by the higher risk of HIV positivity among the urban poor in female headed households, a disadvantage that persists even after the expected higher risk among those who are widowed, divorced or separated (who comprise a disproportionately high proportion of women in female headed households) are controlled for.
Gurley is six feet nine inches tall, and his outsized proportions contribute to his reputation as an eminent figure in Silicon Valley.
What we did see whetted our appetites -- papyrus manuscripts, beautifully proportioned Greek vases, translucent alabaster cups and solemn, marble busts of eminent Romans.
One of the most eminent painters of all time, he also left a graphic oeuvre of heroic proportions both in quantity and quality.
A positive relationship with the proportion of woodland cover in the landscape (100 km2) emerged as the pre-eminent explanatory factor.
In "Elizabeth Costello" (2003), an eminent novelist gives a lecture accusing her audience of complicity in "a crime of stupefying proportions," the abuse and slaughter of animals.
Heaney has been the pre-eminent figure in English language poetry for at least two decades; his books account for an astounding proportion of the total sales of modern poetry.
On Thursday, we published a piece on that subject by the eminent psychologist Glenn Wilson, who argued that we should not be paranoid about paedophiles; that we need to keep a sense of proportion.
