Sentence examples for waning prestige from inspiring English sources

Others, drawing on the history of the Second Republic, mention the waning prestige of the Spanish monarchy.

While the removal of the papal court to Avignon in the time of Clement V created a new centre of patronage for arts and letters, it did little to arrest the waning prestige of the church.

Western diplomats reckon that an Iranian diplomat who was assassinated in Baghdad in April may once have been a guardsman.Promoting the IRGC may be part of a conservative response to the clergy's own waning prestige.

These historians draw a similar correlation between the waning prestige of the papacy in the late Middle Ages and the shattering of the Scholastic synthesis by philosophical theologians such as William of Ockham.

During speeches Saturday, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie all addressed the key concerns of Adelson and many group members — the threat of a nuclear Iran, their desire to strengthen U.S. ties with Israel, and what they view as the waning prestige of the U.S. abroad.

It is not just an intricate, despairing meditation on the shabby compromises involved in maintaining Britain's interests and waning foreign prestige.

It began in earnest in the early 1980s, he reckons, when the growth of global capitalism and the waning influence of labour unions lent corporate-speak a patina of prestige.

Michael Mann's auteur prestige has waned of late, eclipsed by hotter control freaks such as David Fincher.

And the Constitution's waning influence may be part of a general decline in American power and prestige.

Business activity is waning.

That commitment is waning.