Sentence examples for won prestige from inspiring English sources

A Plains warrior won prestige by physically touching an enemy — fatally or not — and getting away.

Traditionally, they have won prestige and, to a limited extent, promotion by delivering long, wordy but intellectually sophisticated written judgments.

But it was local counts once again who won prestige as defenders against pillagers, in this case the Muslims, and who profited from urban growth to establish a dynastic authority of their own.

They use their children and spouses as tools to win prestige for themselves.

China has rapidly increased its contribution in recent years, hoping to win prestige and trust.

He center-deals but makes no money — doesn't even win prestige points — because nobody knows he's doing it.

And Moscow's motivations for a negotiated transition are hardly altruistic: maintaining military and commercial contacts in Syria, winning prestige by being part of the solution to a major international crisis and avoiding domestic fallout from violence in a country that is home to roughly 30,000 Russian citizens would all benefit the Kremlin.

How can our cars win prestige with this "Attention Kmart shoppers!" salesmanship?

The NYSE will win prestige and extra sizzle from the Twitter publicity.

Intelligence agency InSight Crime said the rumors were probably part of a campaign of the Knights Templar Cartel to win prestige from La Familia Michoacana by saying that their leader is in fact alive and still supporting the group.

The essence of his argument was that he was the victim of machinations by the Official Receiver and the Debenture Corporation, who had been determined to win prestige by bringing Bottomley down and wrecking his company.