As Mother Teresa, Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher and Angela Merkel evince, women will achieve historical prominence of one kind or another under their own steam, when given half a chance.
Khrushchev's last years in power witnessed the rise to prominence of two figures Petro Shelest and Volodymyr Shcherbytsky who between them dominated Ukraine's political landscape for almost 30 years.
In Indian-American circles, the rising national prominence of two Indian-American politicians — Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, and Nikki Haley, the Republican nominee for governor of South Carolina — has provoked both pride and backlash.
Ladefoged explains that a theory of prominence can fix this: the "relative prominence of two sounds depends in part on what their relative sonority would have been if they had the same length, stress and pitch; but it also depends in part on their actual stress, length and pitch".
Yet the prominence of two Mormons in the Republican race for the White House has raised questions about US attitudes towards the religion.
Pundits have pointed out that the prominence of one company's content over another will persuade subscribers to automatically go to the one in the pole position, perhaps ignoring content from companies further down the list.
No star before her has ever had the same mix of circumstances and skills to milk such lasting prominence out of three months worth of shoots.
The prominence of these five combinations suggests the following two models for AS patterns: combinations of AD ES (0∼12 times)–AA and multiple repeats of RI (2∼8 times) events.
This structure, however, is not primarily olfactory in function but seems, rather, to be allometric, more closely related to the large size of the jaws and the prominence of the canine teeth; it should be considered a dental muzzle rather than an olfactory one.
But "True West" seems unlikely to be hurt if neither star wins because of the prominence of its two stars, Philip Seymour Hoffman and John C. Reilly, who are known for their film work.
