Sentence examples for significant prestige from inspiring English sources

By putting humans in space, China wins significant prestige, Mr. Hagt said.

Still, their association with inner palace life and their frequent appointments to high levels of military command provided them with significant prestige.

The borough has out-cooled Manhattan, some say, with its trendy restaurants, gentrified row houses, groovy concert venues, and clothing consignment shops whose acceptance of cast-offs conveys significant prestige to a wardrobe, even if discarded.

All three tribes — the Qaddafa most of all — have dominated the ranks of Qaddafi militias and armed forces, jobs that carry significant power, prestige and money in Libyan society and culture.

The committee had a president, but this office did not confer any significant power or prestige.

If, by this point in the season, you stand a decent chance of winning significant cash or prestige in your office pool, it's at least worth considering.

This year, though, that enormous $100,000 prize has added a significant amount of prestige to the event, with organisers hoping it will become the film equivalent of literature's Miles Franklin prize or portraiture's Archibald.

Batlle retained a significant amount of prestige and support, however, which allowed him to strike a compromise that partly rescued the colegiado; thus, in a constitution promulgated in 1918, executive responsibility was split between the president and a National Council of Administration.

But outsourcing the management of its 18 train stations to a contractor such as Capita or possibly a property group, such as Land Securities, would be the most significant loss of prestige for Network Rail.

The failure resulted in a significant loss of prestige; their trade with Syria vanished.

Second, significant capital and prestige was invested in an interim deal aimed at shipping out large portions of Iran's stockpiles of Low Enriched Uranium (LEU).