Sentence examples for preeminence and from inspiring English sources

From the 5th century bc, Athens gained commercial preeminence, and the Athenian drachma became the foremost currency.

Nowhere is the juxtaposition between the defense industry's preeminence and the post-cold-war era more manifest than at the former ammunition factory.

Backed by medieval sources but more sweeping and insistent in their approach, spokesmen such as Petrarch, Manetti, Valla, and Ficino asserted man's earthly preeminence and unique potentialities.

The bishop whose seat was in the metropolitan city had preeminence and was archbishop over the other bishops in his archdiocese.

German idealist philosophers sought thereby to restore reason to its former preeminence and grandeur as the universal tool through which human understanding of reality is possible.

During the ensuing fourth period, about which little is known, Monte Albán lost its political preeminence, and its structures began to decay.

Time Warner, with its powerful magazines, its dominance in the growing cable business, its acquisition of CNN and Turner in the mid-1990s, and its preeminence in Hollywood and the music industry, was as central to liberal-establishment America as News Corp and Fox came to be to conservative America.

That vision of a world divided in two echoes 40s and 50s anti-communism and promises to return the US to preeminence, erasing multilateralism and the cultural importance of women and minorities.

During the 14th 16th century Florence achieved preeminence in commerce and finance, learning, and especially the arts.

China and other nations are a growing threat to U.S. preeminence in science and innovation, the report notes, and the best response is spending more on basic research and reforming the current U.S. system of innovation.

General Raheel Sharif clearly sought to assert his preeminence at home and abroad, painting both Nawaz Sharif and Ghani as weak leaders, and divert attention from the Pakistan army's disastrous jihadist policies and monumental failures to contain the monsters it has created.