Sentence examples for took prominence from inspiring English sources

In life, Polley was aggrieved that Robert Adler's slightly later design took prominence (Polley's Flash-Matic resembled a ray gun) and felt that he was being denied his place in history.

"Play streets", the precursors to present-day "home zones", were legislated for as early as the mid-20th century, but their value to children and community life was overlooked as car use took prominence from the 1960s onwards.

Extremism took prominence in Bangladesh in the middle of 2004 when militants belonging to the banned extremist group Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami launched a grenade attack on the British high commissioner in Bangladesh, killing three people.

The latter took prominence in a "renewed agenda" published last summer, which drew on the results of the GLA's 2009 Young Londoners Survey and set out areas where child and family-friendly investments had been made, with an emphasis on addressing disadvantage.

Instead, ballets about everyday people, real places, real time, the historical past, and the supernatural took prominence.

In the 1870s, the construction of ironclads ceased for a while in France as the Jeune Ecole school of naval thought took prominence, suggesting that torpedo boats and unarmored cruisers would be the future of warships.

"That takes prominence over good public policy".

But increasingly often it is local human interest stories that take prominence.

In the sky, depth -- intensity of color -- takes prominence over the source of radiance.

Since then, Shia militias have increasingly taken prominence in most frontlines across the country.

Some sections of the piece are created through sound, light and movement; in other places, text takes prominence.