Sentence examples for of highest status from inspiring English sources

The social statuses of the guests were recognized and reified through the potlatch, for gifts were distributed in rank order and the more splendid gifts were given to the guests of highest status.

In many Polynesian societies, the chief was the person of highest status, yet he was often regarded by his people and generally conducted himself as merely "first among equals".

And not just that: women thought that men wearing red were of higher status.

They believe that they are special and can be understood only by special people, of high status.

But cows were a sign of high status; to northern Europeans, beef was a prized food.

Rhetoric, though a discipline of higher status, was still taught mainly by Greeks in Greek.

Slaves fought as soldiers and usually were considered of high status.

And as adiposity was democratized, the elite in industrialized countries began seizing on thinness as a sign of high status, not to mention of a good education.

To possess one is, however, a mark of high status, just as many slaves or a large retinue of servants always has been.

Gold objects are normally considered signs of a well-developed society, one with affluent elites who can support craft workers producing items of high status.

While there are few records of Viking women participating in battle, they certainly held positions of high status in society as human sorceresses known as völvas.