Between 1850 and 1950 it grew to preeminence in brass manufacturing, accounting for most of the country's output.
China and other nations are a growing threat to U.S. preeminence in science and innovation, the report notes, and the best response is spending more on basic research and reforming the current U.S. system of innovation.
The nation's growing uncertainty regarding its global preeminence naturally intensifies such discussion.
Time Warner, with its powerful magazines, its dominance in the growing cable business, its acquisition of CNN and Turner in the mid-1990s, and its preeminence in Hollywood and the music industry, was as central to liberal-establishment America as News Corp and Fox came to be to conservative America.
Although immensely successful, Boucher lost his artistic preeminence toward the end of his life; overproduction, poor translations of his paintings into tapestries, the growing sterility of his own work, and the emergence of Neoclassicism caused him to lose favour, both with the public and with such leading art critics as Denis Diderot.
The creation of cardinal-nephews predates the hierarchical preeminence of cardinals within the Catholic Church, which grew out of the 1059 decree of Pope Nicholas II, In Nomine Domini, which established cardinal-bishops as the sole electors of the Pope, with the consent of cardinal-deacons and cardinal-priests.
It was because of this, much more than the intellectual influence of James, that the U.S.A., well before it grew into a dominant world power and achieved its current leadership in the sciences generally, quickly grew to rival, and eventually surpass, Germany's initial preeminence in scientific psychology.
Only in Padua and Venice, however, did painters arise who could actually challenge the preeminence of Florence.
Historically, this preeminence derived from the milling, farm implement, furniture, and textile industries of the 19th century.
Itō's preeminence continued in the 1890s.
