The leader should be a leading cleric, although not necessarily the pre-eminent one.
On his Web site, Mr. Schoener, whose Ph.D. is in ancient Greek philosophy, describes it as "a modest project, not a pre-eminent one, undertaken for the sake of learning".
The House action, which may be no more than a symbolic one unless the Senate follows suit, is another twist in the often turbulent relationship between the United States and a world organization that treats America as a run-of-the-mill member and a pre-eminent one.
My fear of waiting times was a major factor in my decision, probably the pre-eminent one….
Sausages weren't the first reason that my brother and I decided to keep pigs, but they pretty soon became the pre-eminent one.
Wollheim (1968, p. 76) insightfully puts the point that types seem to be objects as that the relationship between a type and its tokens is "more intimate" than that between (a classic example of) a property and its instances because "for much of the time we think and talk of the type as though it were itself a kind of token, though a peculiarly important or pre-eminent one".
On Nov. 25, 2010 I received a response to one of my posts from Francis M. Nevins, one of the pre-eminent scholars on mystery and hard-boiled writers.
The latest of those collectors was Zhang Daqian, then in his 50s, one of the pre-eminent authorities on Chinese art and a renowned painter in his own right.
Tom Jaine points out that "though molecular gastronomy may never have much impact on home cooking, this book has permanently affected how we look at food and cookery," and Richard Ehrlich says the book "secures McGee's position as one of the pre-eminent writers on food.
For some students, the news dealt another blow to the pride they once felt as part of one of the country's pre-eminent youth choirs, one that sang for presidents and toured the world.
There is much to learn from these entrepreneurial organizations' experiences as they have achieved their current pre-eminent positions in one of the most complex business environments in the world.
