Sentence examples for surprising prominence from inspiring English sources

One astonishingly old-fashioned aspect was the surprising prominence of leaders' wives as accessories.

Phil Baty, deputy editor of Times Higher Education, acknowledged that Alexandria's surprising prominence was actually due to "the high output from one scholar in one journal" — soon identified on various blogs as Mohamed El Naschie, an Egyptian academic who published over 320 of his own articles in a scientific journal of which he was also the editor.

(Hardly surprising given the prominence film enjoys in American culture).

Some legal experts said Mr. Klein's departure was surprising given the prominence of the Galleon case.

The predicament of modern C.E.O.s may seem surprising, given their prominence and lavish compensation.

The film was also given a surprising level of prominence at last year's London film festival, where I was lucky enough to randomly stumble into a packed screening.

What is perhaps surprising about the prominence of Scotland in the list is that it is one of only a few European countries who have actually cut their court budgets over the last few years.

In particular, the fact that fewer than 50% of Tutors made a detailed supervision of their Residents' log book is especially surprising given the prominence of this Tutor function in the recent regulations [ 3], and indeed, as far back as 1995, reference to the importance of this as an assessment and evaluation tool has been made [ 2].

Potassium, the common utility heavier alkali metal, has received only a modicum of attention, which is surprising given both its prominence in Lochmann Schlosser mixed-metal superbase chemistry, 10 and especially since in 2000 it produced one of the most spectacular outcomes of AMMMg in the 24-atom inverse crown ring complexes [ tmp 12K6Mg6(C6H4R 6] (R=H or CH3).

Its prominence is not surprising because, similar to the French experience, in the Italian innovation system until the recent changes the universities were especially devoted to basic research activities, whereas the CNR function was related to more applied research (Lawton-Smith 2006).

It is surprising to note that despite the prominence that mission statements carry, considering the popular talk regarding it amongst academicians and practitioners, there is inadequate quantity and quality of research on mission statements (Bart et al. 2001).