Sentence examples for own prominence from inspiring English sources

Jewish American leaders were apparently afraid of making waves, and of losing their own prominence.

But it is a suffocating embrace, less concerned with fostering Abkhazian independence than with ensuring Russia's own prominence.

For Mr. Boies, 64, criticism of the connection is, at least in part, an inevitable fallout from his own prominence.

And this worked really well – so well that, like the proverbial time-traveller who goes back and kills his grandmother, they may have diminished their own prominence as pioneers.

The so-called "hub of the universe" -- cradle of celebrated presidents (Kennedy, Adams), losing nominees (Dukakis, Kerry), comedic slap fights (Leno, Conan) and Dunkin' Donuts (munchkins, crullers) has always held an outsize view of its own prominence in the political cosmos and beyond.

"A fourth limb to make a person a hero?" Having survived the abrupt and violent losses of both her husband and her sister — two "comets," as Heinz Kerry put it, whose brilliance had always eclipsed her — she felt that she had, in middle age, been given a belated chance to test her mettle and achieve her own prominence.

It captures Japan at a crucial time in its history, on the cusp of opening its borders and becoming a world power, and catches Holland as its own colonial prominence is waning.

In America, too, there is a place for poetry in public life that goes beyond our own laureate in prominence.

Media critics say that journalists have reported the issue as a proxy war of their own, giving more prominence to certain individuals than to others.

Three months' development led to the launch of Socialcam, during which time photo-sharing app Instagram made its own burst to prominence, with two million downloads.

Apple has become increasingly assertive in promoting the economic benefits of apps as its own wealth and prominence have grown and its employment and other business practices have come under scrutiny.