Without question, I think Mr. Turner is a formidable artist and deserves recognition as a musician of great stature and importance.
It comes in the same week that Germany gave up its most cherished title, world export champion, to China, heightening fears of a declining stature and importance globally.
"In the past 100 years the office of the pope has taken on greater stature and importance for the average Catholic," Father Martin said.
But others say that his international stature and importance to the Egyptian tourism business put the odds on his side.
I predict that international groups which initially seem trivial, or even laughable, will slowly grow in stature and importance until they become, in many ways, distributed nations of their own…without the limitations of that ugly hacks called a "state".
Gradually, through examples like this, the CRG began to overtake the PSC in its political stature and importance.
In his funeral oration, Judge John Rowan succinctly summed up the stature and importance of George Rogers Clark during the critical years on the Trans-Appalachian frontier: "The mighty oak of the forest has fallen, and now the scrub oaks sprout all around".
He said he told them, "There probably will never be anybody who has the presence and the stature and the importance that Walter Cronkite had in this country".
"I have no doubt that's true," he told his friend, "but stature is of no importance if you don't use it".
Dreiser's considerable stature, beyond his historic importance as a pioneer of unvarnished truth-telling in modern literature, is due almost entirely to his achievements as a novelist.
