Sentence examples for prestige item from inspiring English sources

For CBS, the Tony Awards show is much more of a prestige item for its summer programming schedule than a potential ratings boon.

"The youth of America has discovered sunglasses to be the aspirational and prestige item of the moment," said Marshal Cohen, a senior analyst with the NPD Group, a market research firm.

If ViewSonic has its way, its information appliances will soon be just that kind of prestige item.

The show has many prestige items and power objects linked to specific historical figures.

Small figures cast in brass, often in groups, are prestige items employed also to decorate royal tombs.

Roughly half of the budget is spent by the government on itself, mostly on salaries and prestige items such as ministers' V8 Land Cruisers.

Such pictures were useful to the Indians as prestige items and as visual records of what many of them took to be good-faith agreements.

Paul Lewis in Washington In a country where unusual phone numbers are traded as prestige items it's not surprising to see well-heeled Pakistanis carrying around at least two high-end smartphones wherever they go.

One is to have them, as prestige items or decorator accents; and this has been enough to propel most of the other Presidential memoirs onto the best-seller lists for a month or two.

Mr. Howard's first movie as a director was the tight little pleaser "Grand Theft Auto," and while he has periodically offered up a surprise (the western "The Missing"), he has often mired himself in commercial sludge like "The Da Vinci Code," sporadically trying to break free with serious-minded prestige items, like "Frost/Nixon".

The carvers also produce the large anthropomorphic rice ladles used to designate the most hospitable woman of a lineage during the harvest feast; chiefs' staffs; and female figures that seem to be prestige items, as are small figures cast in brass among the Dan and the Kpelle.