Erick weighed in too, noting that the numbers omitted the iPhone 4. Both of my esteemed colleagues, though, all-but-overlooked one other stat (Erick mentioned it in parentheses): Blackberry handsets outsold them all – both in terms of current user base and new users, with 33% of recent purchasers picking up a Blackberry compared to 27% for Android and 23% for iPhone.
It still offers self-esteem, though, and a chance to underline the notion that progress is being made.
Nocturnal visits to féticheurs, or priests, after having attended, say, Catholic Mass or prayers at the mosque are hardly uncommon, says Félix Iroko of the Université d'Abomey-Calavi, a historian and one of the country's esteemed academics — though he would never talk about such a thing in public, he says with a laugh.
"Massaging the numbers" in certain precincts of the accounting world is a highly esteemed skill, though a species of fraud.
Though esteemed for their knowledge, Jews are usually characterized in Islamic tradition as cowardly and weak.
Remedios Varos (1908 - 1963) can be counted among the few historically esteemed women Surrealists, though she is known primarily for her painting Woman Leaving the Psychoanalyst's Office, painted in 1960.
We build on Simmel (1949 [1910], p. 257) who noted that sociability consists of relations in which "one 'acts' as though all were equal, as though he esteemed everyone", exactly because these interactions are not about difference.
It hardly seemed a burst of youthful vigor from a writer who, though highly esteemed within the profession, was largely unknown and considered more promising than accomplished.
Ms. Trockel, 59 and based in Cologne, is indeed esteemed and widely influential, though for various reasons she has never been as well known in the United States as German contemporaries, including Anselm Kiefer and Martin Kippenberger, who died in 1997.
Though even esteemed sergeants-at-arms aren't always offered such prestigious appointments, Vickers has a strong track record of public service.
