Sentence examples similar to stature of time from inspiring English sources

The secular trend of increasing adult stature over time has been observed in many countries for many years.

To the astonishment of many, Lincoln grew in stature with time and experience, and by 1864 he had become a consummate politician and war director.

One senior official said, with admiration, that Mr. Bremer was "a little bit of a control freak" who feared a diminution of his stature at a time when he is trying to broker an accord among Iraqis on what sort of government will take power on June 30.

Rather than diminishing over the passage of time, the stature of Bobby Sands in history has only increased.

It quickly made Grotius famous: for example, in a letter to Grotius, Vossius says that Descartes told him that he had recently met the Dutchman (in reply, Grotius wrote that he didn't remember meeting Descartes, an indication of their relative stature at the time).

According to Jain belief, each cosmic age produces its own group of 24 Tirthankaras, the first of whom if it is an age of descending purity are giants, but they decrease in stature and appear after shorter intervals of time as the age proceeds.

Its height at first served to keep the wearer's incredibly expensive, flowing gowns from touching the muddy city streets, but this feature was quickly exaggerated out of its practical purpose and into the realm of fashion, growing in stature (at times, up to 24") to reflect the wearer's social status.

The house of Mancini had grown in stature since the time his father was fighting at Broadway Arena.

That conjunction of roles — one written by ancient lore, the other by Steven Bochco — tends to diminish the sublimity of Greek mythology, rather than enhancing the stature of mid-'80s NBC prime time.

The catalogue explains that originally the picture was a small head but had been greatly enlarged in Leopoldo's time.The stature of artists rose during the Renaissance, as the existence of this collection illustrates.

In the early 1960s, seminal works such as Edward R. Murrow's "Harvest of Shame," which exposed the plight of the American migrant worker and NBC's "The Tunnel," the story of East Berliners crossing the border to freedom in the West (with the aid of the documentarians), helped build the stature of TV journalism at a time when print was still the most trusted source of information for Americans.