Both involved women of small stature, jogging alone through parks.
Arsenal were a man down and defensive assignments may have changed, but you can't leave a player of Zouma's stature all alone like that.
That was pretty unusual for any group of any stature, let alone two of the top groups of the 60s, being in one place at one time for reasons other than music.
There was a time, in their telling, when universities saw their mission as education; now even small colleges compel their faculties to publish (at the expense of teaching) for the sake of an institutional stature that teaching alone cannot confer.
Lee alone has stature enough to decide for the South.
But with someone of that stature, just leave him alone to get on with it.
Would a composer of Strauss's stature and originality, let alone his fluency in inventing new material, conceivably have stooped to plagiarizing a widely played work of a lesser contemporary?
They have their surface eccentricities, but none of them, not even the Zuleika Dobson-like femme fatale, Yashmeen Halfcourt - a polymorphous mathematical prodigy - has the stature to carry (let alone transcend) the book's gigantic armouries of fact and speculation, and most of them are little more than amiable ciphers.
That's a problem of policy, not persons, for though Gordon has been a disappointment, Labour is a loyal party, and in a cabinet of pygmies he alone has the stature and experience to lead through difficult times.
Senator Robert G. Torricelli's move to seize the Democratic nomination for New Jersey governor began with a swaggering boast: He declared that he alone had the stature to force bickering Democratic factions to unify and prepare to retake control of the State House.
