Sentence examples for were preeminent from inspiring English sources

Rosi and Toni were preeminent duo pianists and Steinway artists, who gave concerts all over the world.

These efforts failed owing to provincialism among the racing entities, with each one insisting that its own events were preeminent.

Antiphanes and Alexis were preeminent Middle Comedy dramatists, but none of their plays has survived except in later quotations of individual words or sentences.

The members of the Curia Regis were preeminent and often remained to complete business after the magnates had been sent home; the proceedings of Parliament were not formally ended until they had accomplished their tasks.

The Dutch, as great seafarers, were preeminent publishers of atlases, a word that was first used when the maps of Gerardus Mercator were published by his son, Rumold, in 1595.

The West India Company, established in 1621, was built upon shakier economic foundations; trade in commodities was less important than the trade in slaves, in which the Dutch were preeminent in the 17th century, and privateering, which operated primarily out of Zeeland ports and preyed upon Spanish (and other) shipping.

Humans and baboons are preeminent in this respect.

Pottery was preeminent among the Early Minoan arts.

Among these exiles Jan Ámos Komenský (John Amos Comenius) was preeminent.

Bob is preeminent among the 6 or so L.A. helicopter reporters.

And when America fails to recognize that, America will fail to be preeminent in the world.