Sentence examples for relative prestige from inspiring English sources

During this period the relative prestige of each group and individual was factored into all interactions.

"Some blooks – the game boards disguised as books, for example – are perhaps trying to borrow from the relative prestige of the book to give idle pastimes great respectability," Festa added.

In ancient times in Sumer, where Saddam Hussein now rules, the status of visiting envoys was proportionate to the gifts they brought to the table, with banquet guests debating the relative prestige of, say, late-harvest wine and summer fruits.

Broad doesn't just discuss the results of the scientific literature; he weighs the relative prestige of the journal in which the studies were published and scrutinizes each experiment's design and methodology.

Applications of linguistic anthropology seek remedies for language extinction and language-based discrimination, which are often driven by popular ideologies about the relative prestige and utility of different languages.

He may have exaggerated the relative prestige of the verbal over the visual in English culture, but there were ways in which he really was not ideally suited for life as an architect - at least of the large-scale, high-profile public buildings that formed the bulk of his work.

All too often we can focus on issues like funding, economic returns on investment, relative institutional prestige and the like, and ignore what tutors and researchers working directly with students frequently hear in interviews: "it changed my life".

"If you look at pretty much every profession in which folks have gainful employment or relative social prestige, it's overwhelmingly white".

This finding hints at the idea that male raters are assessing the potential use of aggression of other males due to intra-sexual competition, which is likely to result from their physical size, relative ability, prestige, and potential allies.

This may have reflected a survivor bias as upgraders interviewed had already worked in the profession for several years, or the declining popularity of the nursing over time, reflecting the reduced attractiveness of the profession (e.g. due to relative pay, prestige and support), or the wider range of career options available in more recent years.

Much like H.B.C.U.s, community colleges suffer from their relative lack of prestige and political standing.