To raise the prestige of the monarchy, he cooperated with the nobility and the hierarchy.
He saw in Quebec a means to raise French prestige in the world and a chance to separate Canada from what he regarded as American domination.
Balban sought to raise the prestige of the institution of the sultanate through the use of ceremony, the strict administration of justice, and the formulation of a despotic view of the relationship between ruler and subject.
Officials argued that having a medical school would raise the prestige of Rutgers, allowing it to attract more grant money, which would make up for chronic funding problems in a state that spends less than most on public higher education.
"Many are now questioning large-scale expenditures for sports carnivals that appear to enrich corporations and raise the prestige of politicians while doing little to uplift ordinary people, especially the poor".
So my work was to develop something radical that could raise the prestige of the profession and prepare the most sought-after graduates and career switchers to be excellent social workers.
Elizabeth Olson (NYT) CHINA: SPACE LAUNCHING For the second time in 14 months, China launched an unmanned space capsule into orbit, part of its drive to raise national prestige by putting people in space.
The school is one of 35 "Meister" schools introduced by the previous president, Lee Myung-bak, in an effort to raise the prestige of vocational education and break the grip of universities on the minds of South Korean parents, 93% of whom expect their children to go to college.
Matthew Goldstein, who oversaw an expansion of the city's public college system and set out to raise its prestige with a new honors college and other measures, announced on Friday that he would step down after 14 years as chancellor of the City University of New York.
The CIA reply was a challenge to the domino theory, saying that except for Cambodia "it is likely that no nation in the area would quickly succumb to Communism," but that the loss "would be profoundly damaging the the U.S. position in the the Far East" and would raise Chinese prestige at the expense of the Soviet Union.
