In Veblen's era, status was attached to the things that one had that others didn't; the act of pooling goods and services lacked prestige.
Robert Mondavi's critical contribution, Lukacs says, lay in intuiting that in the 1960's American wine lacked prestige and in riskily setting out to establish it.
The venue needs revenue, and the visiting company – perhaps a new venture – simply hasn't the budget for an orchestra, caught in a Catch 22 of being unable to attract sponsors without prestige, but desperately lacking prestige without live music.
Not only did the lawyers in the respective firms not know each other; there were lingering suspicions on the Dewey side that LeBoeuf lacked prestige, and on the LeBoeuf side that unproductive Dewey partners would be siphoning off profits.
That began a four-year labour of love aimed at convincing audiences that an artform most closely associated with classical Romance languages could blend with a vernacular often seen as lacking prestige.
The people and procedures associated with safety information therefore often lack prestige with researchers.
They are rule-bound varieties of language just like the standard is, with the main difference that they're not written down as often and have historically lacked prestige.
That accolade still lacks the prestige of Wimbledon champion.
Mr. Jiang lacks the prestige that Mr. Deng enjoyed and no one expects him to have such sweeping influence.
That list, however, lacks the prestige of the others, which are funded more generously and promoted more assiduously by Unesco and its member countries.
