Sentence examples for unprecedented prominence from inspiring English sources

It shares that root with kakistocracy, a word that denotes government by the worst persons, and which therefore has gained unprecedented prominence in the past year.

They now speak of Bush-style compassionate conservatism, and their party convention last month was a near-parody of the G.O.P.'s in Philadelphia, giving unprecedented prominence to black and female party activists.

A 1998 Sargent exhibition, organized by the Tate Gallery in London, gave unprecedented prominence to the works, and Sally Promey's 1999 "Painting Religion in Public" was the first book devoted to the murals.

Meanwhile, business books have gained an unprecedented prominence and popularity (as have business magazines like Forbes).

Although language has long been of concern to states, issues of language policy have achieved unprecedented prominence as a concomitant of the expansion of governmental activity and of citizen participation, as well as of the advent of postindustrial conditions that enhance the value of linguistic skills as a form of cultural capital.

Pakistani women are now achieving unprecedented prominence on the world stage and are pushing for empowerment at home.

For while this is a period of unprecedented black prominence – from Barack Obama in the White House to artists such as Beyoncé, Steve McQueen, Marlon James, Kanye West – black people are still victim to the consequences of entrenched racism.

President Rousseff's predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, once called "the man" and "the most popular politician on Earth" by Mr Obama, took his country to an unprecedented level of prominence on the international scene.

In March 1992, John C. Hitt became UCF's fourth president, ushering in an era of unprecedented growth and prominence for the university.

Their prominence demonstrates the unprecedented closeness of European and American societies linked through business and cultural bonds intensified over the Internet.

The late-in-life politician also rose to prominence in a time of virtually unprecedented turmoil in Los Angeles — at the end of Tom Bradley's two-decade reign as the city's longest-serving mayor, following the hideous Rodney King beating and after the 1992 riots had sealed the perception of L.A. as a hothouse of urban dysfunction.