Sentence examples for prestigious seats from inspiring English sources

In both places, 75% of candidates for constituency seats – the most favoured and prestigious seats – were men.

The revelation that students at the country's most prestigious seats of learning enjoy an occasional joint is hardly the stuff of headlines - unless that country is Japan.

And it has opened a fully-fledged branch of the Sorbonne, the Paris university.That has boosted the emirate's position in what has become a race among wealthy Gulf states to woo prestigious seats of learning.

Some grumbled about the change of location as they moved to their new, less prestigious seats — but not the executive of a French publishing house and her two companions.

Saudi Arabia in a rare move and one that was widely interpreted as a sign of protest against UN inaction in Syria and U.S. policies in Iran, Syria, and elsewhere in the Middle East turned down the prestigious seat that it had been elected to on the UN Security Council.

As Beaconsfield – the historic and prestigious seat of Disraeli – writhes agonisingly towards the final decade of its remarkable life, perhaps someone somewhere soon might care to realise that the average 75-year-old has a lot of time for cheese and wine but no interest at all in Blogger or Twitter: but the medium is still the message.

A day after the United Nations elected Saudi Arabia to a prestigious seat on the Security Council, the Saudi leadership refused to accept the position and lashed out at the world body for "double standards" and failure to protect peace.

Quietly spoken and easygoing, Adli is perhaps an unlikely candidate to speak (alongside activists and opposition politicians twice his age) to the student throng encamped outside the country's most prestigious seat of learning.

When giving class at the National Autonomous University of Mexico as the superhero, Vazquez leaves home in eastern Mexico City with his mother's blessing, and rides in public transport to the prestigious seat of learning dressed as the Avenger.

For Delhi's seven prestigious parliamentary seats, it is a tight contest between the Congress, the BJP and the year-old Aam Aadmi (Common Man) Party (AAP), which won local assembly elections in December, but spent only 49 days in power.

Under Queen Maria Theresa, the castle became a prestigious royal seat.