Sentence examples for world prominence from inspiring English sources

The event this week is a chance for the Americans to return to world prominence.

During the 17th century, the Dutch East India Company rose to world prominence by trading fine goods.

It would be four decades before another African middleweight and light-heavyweight champion Richard Ihetu of Nigeria (who fought as "Dick Tiger")—rose to world prominence.

Meckstroth and his regular partner, Eric Rodwell, first reached world prominence in their mid-20s when they won the 1981 Bermuda Bowl in Port Chester, N.Y.

C. 200 BCE ancient Greece c. 118 BCE Polybius, (born c. 200 bce, Megalopolis, Arcadia, Greece died c. 118) Greek statesman and historian who wrote of the rise of Rome to world prominence.

(The fifth generation included filmmakers like Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, who propelled mainland Chinese cinema to world prominence with films like "Raise the Red Lantern" and "Farewell My Concubine").

Cardiff originally rose to art-world prominence on the strength of her "audio walks," as she calls them, and I came to Kassel, in large part, to understand why.

Ms. Opie came to art-world prominence in the mid-1990s witherer large-scale portraits of what she has called her "royal family," friends in the sadomasochistic leather group in San Francisco.

The magazine was succeeding on several different fronts: holding up a campy mirror to late-90's consumerism while becoming a must-have object itself (what Noguchi coffee table would be complete without it?), increasing revenues and catapulting its editor into the heights of design-world prominence.

The three artists (now collectively known as "Struffsky") rose to art-world prominence in the late 80's and together established a kind of imposing house style for contemporary photography: spectacularly matter-of-fact, technically flawless and enlarged to a colossal scale.

For artist Eunice Golden, who rose to art-world prominence in the 1960s, that dynamic needed changing.