Even when there is persecution, the challenge, as Harrison sees it, is to "increase the prestige of a language so that the young embrace it".
Ms. Clinton's visit is sure to increase the prestige and position of Ms. Banerjee, who has been criticized widely for throwing a spanner in development projects.
The Saudi conquest of the Hejaz, including the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, increased the prestige of the House of Saud and gave new scope to the Wahhabi doctrine, which spread, in a variety of forms, throughout the Islamic world.
You can either slot one of your Pokémon in there as a defender if there is a space, or spar with the defenders to increase the prestige of the gym, eventually increasing its level and potentially adding a slot for one of your monsters.
So far, the occupation has done much to diminish American prestige among the moderate Muslims it was meant to persuade — and has helped increase the prestige of those who make the claim, while they go on killing the occupiers, that they are the only effective opposition to American power.
The failure to quell looting permanently diminished the U.S. in the eyes of ordinary Iraqis; the fact that it was young Shiite men who succeeded in driving the looters away and that Shiite clerics were able to persuade the looters to return what they stole, including works of art from the Iraqi National Museum, increased the prestige of the Shiite leaders among their own people.
The government denies those figures, and argues that hosting events such as the summit of the African Union, of which the Equatoguinean president Obiang Nguema is chairman, increase the prestige of the country, a necessary step to making the most of the vast revenues that have flooded in since the discovery of oil in the mid-1990s.
Meanwhile, science-based successes like vaccination and antiseptic surgical techniques were increasing the prestige of scientific medicine.
In this respect, it is also recommended that an effort be made to promote, publicize, and increase the prestige associated with vocational education both among businesses and the public in general (Thaniel, 1989).
Unless we invest massively and now in math and science education and, even more importantly, in increasing the prestige of non-computer engineering and scientific work, we may find that we have eaten so much of our technology seed corn that we can't recover in time to win the upcoming energy race with China.
