Sentence examples for peculiar prominence from inspiring English sources
Zweig lived in New York for a while, and Prochnik movingly documents the toll that the author's peculiar prominence among the Jewish émigré community took on him, especially at a time when millions of Jews who remained in Europe were dying.
A18 McCain Returns to Senate John McCain returns to the Senate with a national following but facing a peculiar challenge: how to use his new prominence to advance his signature issue of campaign finance overhaul at a time when everyone in politics is posing as a reformer.
John McCain returns to the Senate on Monday with a national following but facing a peculiar challenge: how to use his new prominence to push forward his signature issue of overhauling the campaign finance system at a moment when everyone in politics is posing as a reformer.
He said of Étienne Dupuch, the editor of the Nassau Daily Tribune: "It must be remembered that Dupuch is more than half Negro, and due to the peculiar mentality of this Race, they seem unable to rise to prominence without losing their equilibrium".
In 2005 Dr. Everett shot to international prominence with a paper claiming that he had identified some peculiar features of the Pirahã language that challenged Noam Chomsky's influential theory, first proposed in the 1950s, that human language is governed by "universal grammar," a genetically determined capacity that imposes the same fundamental shape on all the world's tongues.
They long for prominence.
They equate prominence with frequency.
Fame brought him political prominence.
The issue is gaining prominence.
Hence the prominence of eggs.
