Sentence examples for local stature from inspiring English sources

Increasingly wealthy and becoming a person of some local stature and influence, Hanna discovers that paradise can be treacherous.

After the case was thrown out, Mr. Stevens, often called Uncle Ted in Alaska, seemed to retain much of his local stature.

He was suitably modest about his local stature, but he did offer one story passed on by a woman who had lived in the apartment for 35 years.

Another protection was the fervent pro-Nazi views of the manager of the estate; his local stature helped contain public denunciations of a family that refused to say "Heil Hitler".

Muhammad works as a counselor at the high school and coaches the varsity basketball team, which gives him the local stature of a high-school football coach in Texas.

Back then, Southern California writers and artists attained global stature by glorifying local quirks.

The day after her 2008 win, her campaign Web site prominently posted this headline from a local newspaper: "Gilibrand's Stature Likely to Rise After Win".

She was about twenty, enslaved since her birth at Mount Vernon — "a light mulatto girl, much freckled, with very black eyes and bushy hair," according to a runaway advertisement in a local paper, "of middle stature, slender, and delicately formed".

Isn't being Jasper Johns's assistant enough?" Mr. Meyer's arrest last week rocked the New England reserve of the area, where Mr. Johns is a revered but largely invisible presence and Mr. Meyer a midlevel figure in the local art scene whose stature was elevated by his relationship with a celebrated master.

Unlike Chile, Peru had no local politicians of the stature of O'Higgins, so San Martín became the leader of the government, even though he did not want to.

Mr. Rather raises the profile and stature of the local news programs of CBS-owned-and-affiliated stations -- just as Peter Jennings does for ABC stations and Mr. Brokaw does for NBC stations.