Sentence examples for given the prestige from inspiring English sources

But given the prestige of the new role it is likely that other strong candidates could have emerged.

Given the prestige he had amassed leading the I.M.F. during the crisis, it was assumed that he would use his influence to shepherd in the new era.

Given the prestige of the New York race, it makes sense to attract a deep field of good runners, down to local levels.

Given the prestige of a Senate seat and its magnetic allure to politicians, it is perhaps not surprising that when these vacancies come up, the process of awarding the office has become fraught with malfeasance and political peril.

The findings are likely to have a major impact, given the prestige of the institute, a private organization of eminent lawyers, judges and legal scholars that has had immense influence on the development of American law since the group was founded in 1923.

"I just assumed," she said, "that given the prestige, the fame, the renown -- whatever term you want to use -- of the alums, given the success of the alums, I just assumed that within the organization of the alumni there was aggressive fund-raising and capital campaigns, the things that you and I get from our colleges all the time.

"For folks like Vincent Longo, we are extending their [current] market opportunity," says Rao. "Eve.com gives the prestige cosmetic brands a chance to extend their reach, since they advertise in national mediums, and gives them national distribution," says Michael May, a digital commerce analyst with Jupiter Communications.

Given the mindless prestige our patriotic culture places on military service and the "grand American spectacle" of war, it's hard to see a poor 18-year-old's choice to join the Army, and to take on the very real risk of death and serious, debilitating injury, as a full-fledged, free choice.

Although the outcome of Tuesday's vote would apply only to Harvard's arts and sciences faculty, the impact, given the university's prestige, could be significant for the open-access movement, which seeks to make scientific and scholarly research available to as many people as possible at no cost.

As a result, as Keith Michael Baker reveals, "for almost twenty years Condorcet was the principal spokesman of organized science not only in France but (given the power and prestige of the Paris Academy of Science … [and his post of perpetual secretary]) throughout Europe.

And, of course, a race for governor of California, home to nearly one in eight Americans, is not a garden-variety election, given the money and the prestige involved, not to mention the potential springboard to higher, national office.