The issue has waxed and waned in prominence ever since.
It captures Japan at a crucial time in its history, on the cusp of opening its borders and becoming a world power, and catches Holland as its own colonial prominence is waning.
Although Montacute was equipped for a visiting sovereign, by the time it was completed Elizabeth I was dead and the family's prominence was waning.
Much of this prominence waned in the Communist era, and in its cloak of soot the town has become much like any other disintegrating provincial center of industry in East Germany.
Since then, the product has travelled a bumpy road to sporting-field prominence, waxing and waning in accordance with technological improvements and controversies over toxicity or injuries.
Their control was waning along with the team's prominence in Europe.
But the celebration back then was for the Japanese, upstarts in the sport who thrust themselves into international prominence by stunning the Americans in the game's waning moments.
Though his prominence has waned, Mr. Khodorkovsky remains a symbol of opposition to Mr. Putin.
Though Mr. Khodorkovsky's prominence has waned over the years, journalists and politicians, mostly foreign, still confront Russia's leaders with uncomfortable questions about his confinement, and even President Obama has called the latest charges against him "odd".
As his national political career waned, he rose to prominence in the city government of Berlin, where, as chief burgomaster from 1878, he carried out a program of public services and improvements.
After receiving a burst of support in November, Carson's prominence has waned.
