The variable isn't statistically significant, but it coincides with a general increase in stature for the vice-presidential slot, so I think there is a theoretical basis for including it.
Administration officials said they were hopeful that General Petraeus's stature in Congress and in allied capitals in Europe and the Middle East would buy him the time and flexibility to try to make the counterinsurgency strategy he devised — and carried out in Iraq — work in Afghanistan.
Designated by the U.N. Charter as the body's chief administrative officer, the secretary general gets the stature of a world leader but no army of his own to command (the blue helmets don't count, since, among other things, he cannot order them into battle).
The company, Defense Solutions, sought the services of a retired general with national stature, someone who could open doors at the highest levels of government and help it win a huge prize: the right to supply Iraq with thousands of armored vehicles.
Because Newton never drafted a treatise on, or even a digest of, this general system, his stature as one of the great philosophers of the seventeenth century, indeed, of all time, is no longer widely appreciated.
A general with his stature - an Episcopalian, for heaven's sake - obviously has nothing to do with an email scandal, we assumed.
Nine years later, after further consideration, Thiers changed his mind: "In an earlier paper this species was considered to belong to the genus Boletellus because of its stature, general appearance, and because some workers had reported the spores as being obscurely punctate or roughened.
But the central role in national life played by the military since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 — a time in which some general officers attained the stature, and entourages, of rock stars — put them in the spotlight.
He can talk about his past as a seven-term state attorney general, one with such stature that he was appointed chief justice in 1997 by a Democratic governor even though he was a Republican.
