Sentence examples for prestige across from inspiring English sources

Mr. Arafat exploited his captivity to raise his flagging prestige across the Arab world, while more constructive Palestinian voices fell silent in loyalty to the trapped leader.

Her fossil record is chessmen made of marble, crystal, bone and jewel-encrusted gold, and in these relics' changing contours she traces the rise and spread of female power and prestige across Europe in the Middle Ages.

In the British public's imagination, Gibraltar was seen as "a symbol of British naval power [and] a symbol of the empire which has been built and, more than the British lion or even John Bull himself, has come to represent Britain's power and prestige across the world".

Part of the paradox is perhaps explained by the Kingdom's desire to export its own radicals, which would have the double effect of increasing Saudi prestige across the Muslim World while at the same time physically removing potential threats to Saudi authority at home.5.5

Because we have had no understanding of Egyptians, Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians and Iraqis, we have engaged in tragic and costly foreign policy blunders that have taken a terrible toll in human life and the prestige of our country across this critical region.

One reason may be that, with the partial exception of Great Britain, there is less difference across institutions in prestige and effectiveness than here; there is less competition for rankings (whether in Nobelists on the faculty or in football and basketball polls); and in most places faculty salaries are largely based on a civil-service scale.

Network prestige was not equally distributed across the Brazilian states.

Despite differing drastically in the topics they study, the research methods they use, the sources of their funding, and many other respects, these disciplines differ hardly at all in "the enormous role of institutional prestige in shaping faculty hiring across academe," the authors found.

Its construction was part of a flurry of big spending in a country flush with credit from US banks; the Hotel Nacional and main highway across Cuba were other prestige projects begun at the same time.

It is likely that Hitler did not want to gamble his new-found military prestige by launching a hazardous venture across the Channel unless the Luftwaffe had crushed all opposition.

To check for the robustness of this indicator we compared the occupational prestige (isei) of the jobs taken up across respondents reporting to be employed in skilled vs. unskilled work.