How To Use Eminence In A Sentence

At its upper and forepart is a horizontal eminence, the sustentaculum tali, which gives attachment to a slip of the tendon of the Tibialis posterior. II. Osteology. 6d. The Foot. 1. The Tarsus
His Eminence Don Pelasio de Labastida, an eighteenth century bishop of Mexico City set a scandalous example of such indulgence in earthly pleasures. To the charreada with stars in her eyes
I thought we were never going to reach it; and then, almost unexpectedly, we suddenly came upon it - a small but ancient village, rising up on a slight eminence, but concealed from view by big clumps of tall-growing reeds.
We are told also by his sister -- and there is no incongruity in the two accounts -- that he early displayed a taste for 'preheminence and would preside over his playmates as their master and they his hired servants.' The Rowley Poems
If a certain amount of begrudgery is the unavoidable product of such a position of eminence, it is neither fair nor perceptive.

And not only the punters: TV's Angular Ex-England Fast Bowler Punditry Eminence could be seen holding court in raddled picnic pose, a tiny plastic Viking hat on his head. Sozzled - how English cricket got lost in drink | Barney Ronay
Regarding politics and the art of government as, equally with arms, their natural vocations, they have never given the Nation a statesman, and their greatest politicians achieved eminence by advocating ideas which only attracted attention by their balefulness. Andersonville
The 44 eminences charge that Britain's apparent lack of transparency and accountability threatens to undermine whatever moral high ground there is left.
I have yet to discover that having been born when Cal Coolidge was gearing up to run for re-election confers any eminence upon this dodderer.
His Eminence accused Eugène of being a frondeur; M. de Canaples, whose politics had grown sadly rusted in the country, asked me the meaning of the word. The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes
Maytera has a little garden back at the cenoby, Your Eminence. Exodus From The Long Sun
The edifice… is built upon a beautiful eminence, on the Philadelphia road, affording on all sides, an extensive, and delightful view, with charming rural scenery, on every side.
He told her about her sister's rise to Eminence, and the secession in the late spring. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
It is made annually for eminence in organic chemistry and includes a monetary prize of ￡2000.
Thus comes it that we take a final glance through two childish prison-houses, in far-separate Russian cities, wherein a youth and a maiden lie nightly dreaming the same dreams: one of them a spirit already bonded to the service of mind under the whip of circumstance: destined to storm rocky heights, from which hard-won eminences he shall command great views of sweeping plains and far-off mountain ranges; the other a pretty chrysalis on the eve of her change into a butterfly of butterflies; who is, nevertheless, to attempt flights overhigh and overfar for her frail wings; venturing to unfriendly lands whence she must return with frayed and tired pinions and a bruised and bleeding little soul. The Genius
Mach, like Ostwald, also denied the pre-eminence of mechanical explanation.
It flourished until the last quarter of the 18th century, when neoclassicism gained pre-eminence in Latin America.
The eminence of these works, in particular the Almagest, had been evident already to Ptolemy's contemporaries. this caused an almost total obliteration of the prehistory of the Ptolemaic astronomy.
There were numerous arcuate fibers connecting with the third ventricle ependymal surface and median eminence in arcuate hypothalamic nucleus.
In one place, His Eminence speaks of the way in which the term "preconciliar" has been used as an insult "as if an abyss should be created between the "before" and the "after" the Council" and then says:Today, thanks to the Motu Proprio, this situation is changing notably. Archive 2009-05-01
And this entitles the precept, _Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself_, to the pre-eminence given to it, and is a justification of the apostle's assertion, that all other commandments are comprehended in it, whatever cautions and restrictions {28} there are, which might require to be considered, if we were to state particularly and at length what is virtue and right behaviour in mankind. Human Nature and Other Sermons
I was once more on the Great Conglomerate, -- here, as elsewhere, a picturesque, boldly-featured deposit, traversed by narrow, mural-sided valleys, and tempested by bluff abrupt eminences. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
Boulez' own music, for what it's worth, didn't even win the battle for preeminence, which is to say the token programming spot. "some safe, undecisive [sic
The surfaces of the hemispheres are moulded into a number of irregular eminences, named gyri or convolutions, and separated by furrows termed fissures and sulci. IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon
A magnificent pile of cushions at the head of the banquet seemed prepared for the master of the feast, and such dignitaries as he might call to share that place of distinction; while from the roof of the tent in all quarters, but over this seat of eminence in particular, waved many a banner and pennon, the trophies of battles won and kingdoms overthrown. The Talisman
`His Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop"--he bowed nervously at the prelate `is well-known. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
This species, contrary to the occurrence of shelbyocerids in the Eminence Formation, is clearly found associated with digitate stromatolite bearing dolomite.
Et maintenant, Mesdames et Messieurs, au nom des Clubs Empire et Canadian il me fait plaisir de vous presenter votre conferencier, un Canadien renomme partout et un Canadien tres distingue, Son Eminence le Cardinal Leger. The Gap Between Them and Us
It measures about 2 cm. in length, and in the lower, closed part of the medulla oblongata is situated behind the hypoglossal nucleus; whereas in the upper, open part it lies lateral to that nucleus, and corresponds to an eminence, named the ala cinerea (trigonum vagi), in the rhomboid fossa. IX. Neurology. 4a. The Hind-brain or Rhombencephalon
Proponents say a package of tax breaks and research grants will help attract scientists and new companies to the state, preserving its preeminence in the field.
Just as in the mythic prehistoric stage of many nations there is a body of legendary matter, which often reappears in somewhat different form, so there is a floating plankton-like mass of tradition and storiology that seems to attach to eminence wherever it emerges and is repeated over and over again, concerning the youth of men who later achieve distinction, which biographers often incorporate and attach to the time, place, and person of their heroes. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
This eminence is concave above, and articulates with the middle calcaneal articular surface of the talus; below, it is grooved for the tendon of the Flexor hallucis longus; its anterior margin gives attachment to the plantar calcaneonavicular ligament, and its medial, to a part of the deltoid ligament of the ankle-joint. II. Osteology. 6d. The Foot. 1. The Tarsus
One of these, starting in front of the wrist at the tuberosity of the navicular bone, curves around the thenar eminence and ends on the radial border of the hand a little above the metacarpophalangeal joint of the index finger. XII. Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings. 11. Surface Anatomy of the Upper Extremity
Borusa had no wish to become president[Sentence dictionary], instead preferring to operate as an eminence grise behind the scenes.
The parade will be reviewed from the steps of Saint Patrick's Cathedral by His Eminence Cardinal Edward Eagan, Archbishop of New York.
What could I, helpless, houseless, fortuneless, be but a weight upon that buoyancy and ambition of eminence which marks superior natures for the superior honours of life. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845
PALESTINE al tamimi, his eminence justice sheikh dr tayseer rajab Al Tamimi is a leading scholar and chief Islamic justice of Palestine. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
Organizations that sustain preeminence do so because they understand that being entrenched in their past successes is the surest path to future failure. Commodity U
Some authors have been surprised that their eminence hasn't protected them from a mauling at the hands of ‘the mad, the bad, and the misinformed.’
Sharp, rocky eminences began to rise around them, and, in a short time, deep declivities and ascents, both formidable in height and difficult from the narrowness of the path, offered to the travellers obstacles of a different kind from those with which they had recently contended. The Talisman
Will there be letters from eminences and celebs to bring glitter to the letters page?
Because he was so often referred to in pompous tones as ‘the eminent historian and biographer’, I would sometimes address him as: ‘Dear eminence.’
South of Black Head, an eminence of about 150 feet, is the little port of Pentewan, noted for its elvan building stone, which is shipped, together with some china-clay, from its excellent small harbour. The Cornwall Coast
He remoued the archbishops see from Canturburie vnto Lichfield, thereby to aduance his kingdome of Mercia, as well in dignitie & preheminence of spirituall power as temporall. Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England
The attendant physician, possibly overawed by the eminence of his charge, gave a warning which, in the wisdom of hindsight, he probably regretted for the rest of his life.
The new disease called morbus Thomsenii, of which I wrote in my report last year, has been carefully studied by several men of eminence, and the following conclusions have been reached as to its pathology: The weight of the evidence seems to prove that it is of a neuropathic rather than a myopathic nature, and that it depends on an exaggerated activity of the nervous apparatus which produces muscular tone, and that it has much analogy to the muscular phenomena of hysterical hypnosis, the genesis of which is precisely explained by a functional hyperactivity of the nervous centers of muscular activity. Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885
Would Your Eminence be so magnanimous as to enlighten your most loyal servant to the identities?
While retaining strong connections with his roots, he progressed inexorably from unexceptional beginnings to a position of some eminence in Vienna.
Join us for five days of hiking around Uncompahgre and Wetterhorn Peaks, complete with deep valleys, rocky eminences, alpine tundra, and towering mountains.
This point was driven home a few weeks later when, at a dinner for scientific eminences, a colleague introduced me to one of the nation's leading neuroscientists.
There was more meat in the young grey eminence than his critics have allowed. Times, Sunday Times
The last of the grouper 's bones were withdrawing into the deep, eager to join the sleeping eminence of the lagoon. RUSHING TO PARADISE
I came to suspect that my obit-writing guaranteed these eminences something like eternal life.
Look at eminences in the past, and what stands out in their childhoods is an animus toward school, a tolerance for solitude and families with lots of books.
And when mourners of every age, race, and creed praised him as a great man, I wondered what His Eminence had done to merit those words.
The origin of the tibial coordinate system was selected as the point midway between the tibial eminences on the proximal end of the tibia.
The Edinburgh operation is in a very healthy situation, we are encountering very significant growth, and we can build on our core talents to operate from a position of eminence and strength in these competitive markets.
Then a series of family tragedies catapulted him to his present eminence. Times, Sunday Times
Drilling begins directly over the bisection of the angle between the greater superficial petrosal nerve and arcuate eminence and the dura of IAC is exposed beneath the petrous ridge.
‘I feel absolutely delighted but very humbled to have been included in this roster of eminence,’ she said.
Hanoverian flag bearing the one figure of a snow-white charger; and the great Austrian Empire, Caesarian, heir to overlording Rome, having for the imperial color the same imperial hue; and though this pre-eminence in it applies to the human race itself, giving the white man ideal mastership over every dusky tribe; and though, besides, all this, whiteness has been even made significant of gladness, for among the Romans a white stone marked Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
Bennett's eminence as a dramatist is beyond question.
She was strongly committed to her job, policewoman by eminence.
From modest roots, his rise to eminence was all the more remarkable.
Are we to conclude therefore that eminence can not be allowed as a yardstick of creativity?
a scholar of great eminence
We have some gently rounded, wooded, eminences.
Eminence with him; and his conversation was a kind of Borgia Brocade shot with Machiavelism. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
It is made annually for eminence in organic chemistry and includes a monetary prize of ￡2000.
They are the eminences of the permanent political class. O: A Presidential Novel
At the wrist it suddenly becomes hard and dense and covered with a thick layer of epidermis; on the thenar eminence these characteristics are less marked than elsewhere. XII. Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings. 11. Surface Anatomy of the Upper Extremity
She is also renowned for the eminence of her contacts.
Behind this eminence, but detached from it, arose a higher hill, partly covered with copsewood, partly opening into glades of pasture, where the cattle strayed, finding, at this season of the year, a scanty sustenance among the spring heads and marshy places, where the fresh grass began first to arise. The Fair Maid of Perth
Finally, dear readers, imagine the many opportunities for growth through pilgrimage to sacred sites, the handling and viewing of relics that retain the energies of the great man - the mind, that is to say the bundle of neurons and fatty tissue that fills my cranium through wholly fortuituous accident and yields no claim to any kind of speciesist preeminence on my part ... the mind so understood I say thrills at the prospect of living such a holistic and fervent faith ... Latest entries from endlesslyrocking.blog-city.com
Shaking the patient's hand at the end of the consultation, the doctor noticed a raised lesion on the thenar eminence of his right hand.
The Abductor pollicis brevis is often divided into an outer and an inner part; accessory slips from the tendon of the Abductor pollicis longus or Palmaris longus, more rarely from the Extensor carpi radialis longus, from the styloid process or Opponens pollicis or from the skin over the thenar eminence. IV. Myology. 1F. The Muscles and Fasciæ of the Hand
There are exceptions, of course; anyone can quote the names of a few specialists who have attained local or even national eminence.
The examiner's thumbs are placed on either side of the bony eminences of the tunnel (the scaphoid on one side and the pisiform and hamate on the other.)
An old upright Yankee patrician, a very gentle man in the office of secretary of war, one Henry Stimson, told the president of his good fortune in having for the job a soldier of such towering eminence.
The tuber cinereum is a hollow eminence of gray substance situated between the corpora mammillaria behind, and the optic chiasma in front. IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon
Among the many ways Britain has been different from the continent has been not only the number but the eminence of female Sovereigns.
The competition between these two nations for low-carbon preeminence is critical for the climate. Carl Pope: India Vs. China: Which Low-Carbon Development Model Will Win?
Margaret Atwood is one of the eminences of Canadian literature.
Therefore, all bony structures of the face, including the malar eminences, orbital rims, zygomatic arches, mandible, and teeth, should be carefully inspected and palpated for irregularity or tenderness.
It is made annually for eminence in organic chemistry and includes a monetary prize of ￡2000.
In insects we first find the distinct commencement of a separation between the muscular system, that is, organs of irritability, and the nervous system, that is, organs of sensibility; the former, however, maintaining a pre-eminence throughout, and the nerves themselves being probably subservient to the motory power. Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life.
Salomon Seniler, an unbelieving hypercritic, in this respect hold an undesirable pre-eminence, his "Historiæ eccles. selecta capita" (3 vols., The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
Running obliquely downward and medialward from the tubercle is the intertrochanteric line (spiral line of the femur); it winds around the medial side of the body of the bone, below the lesser trochanter, and ends about 5 cm. below this eminence in the linea aspera. II. Osteology. 6c. 3. The Femur
Filaret owed his eminence less to his holy office than to his son's willingness to treat him as a co-ruler.
There are wharves of heavy masonry; the governor's residence, a verandaed bungalow shut in with green persiennes, standing on a little eminence some distance back from the water; and one narrow street of heavy white stone houses with flat roofs, fringing the shore. In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
He cites the eminence and experience of the writers, showing that they are not mere hacks but people with a reputation to maintain.
There was, for instance, Mary Cheney: She was, on the one hand, the daughter of the man who was the real string-puller and eminence grise (shadow eminence) behind the boy-king, George W. Bush's "throne. Eberhard Kronhausen and Phyllis Kronhausen: Missing the Point -- Again!
With the blessing of the European Union, a network of high-speed lines is cobwebbing the Continent, challenging the pre-eminence of the airlines. Barreling Down The Tracks
Of course, his own eminence contributed to his isolation, but he also chose solitude as his appropriate fate.
This is especially so if the expert is a man of great eminence and therefore likely to be respected, effective and persuasive.
Luckily for us, there are still individuals, like him, in sport as in business, who break the mould, defy convention and break through the culture of conformity to establish their own pre-eminence.
The Armory was described by one British visitor as ‘beautifully situated on an eminence overlooking the town.’
Corporation, and companie, and from all priuilege, libertie, and preheminence which any such person should, or might claime, or haue by vertue of this our graunt, and in place of them to elect others exercising the lawfull trade of marchandise to bee of the sayd The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
[Sidenote: Strife betwixt the prelates for preheminence.] and his chapleine (whom he appointed [15] to beare his crosse before him at his entrance into the kings chappell) was contemptuouslie and violentlie thrust out of the doores with crosse and all by the fréends of the archbishop of Canturburie. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (3 of 12) Henrie I.
If skulls are present, compare cranial features- the male skull will have a more defined nuchal crest, mastoid process, supra-orbital ridge/glabella, & mental eminence. Mordicai: crown me king!
The new disease called morbus Thomsenii, of which I wrote in my report last year, has been carefully studied by several men of eminence, and the following conclusions have been reached as to its pathology: The weight of the evidence seems to prove that it is of a neuropathic rather than a myopathic nature, and that it depends on an exaggerated activity of the nervous apparatus which produces muscular tone, and that it has much analogy to the muscular phenomena of hysterical hypnosis, the genesis of which is precisely explained by a functional hyperactivity of the nervous centers of muscular activity. Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885
The maritime chronometer took Britain to pre-eminence in safe navigation and helped secure the empire.
No wonder two film eminences have been trying to bring the lady's life to the screen.
For such as me, Kierkegaard the humorist - or novelist, or aphorist, or ironist - possesses an unquestioned eminence, whereas Kierkegaard the philosopher - or theologian, or pietist, or polemicist - cuts a far more equivocal figure.
China seems to feel unusually bold before the Summer Olympics, seen here as a curtain raiser for the nation's ascent to pre-eminence in the world.
But because it is our duty not so highly to regard either the loue of our countrey, or of any other thing whatsoeuer, but that we may be ready at all times and in all places, to giue trueth the preheminence: I will say in a word what that was which perhaps might minister occasion to this infamous reproch of writers. A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas
Then was the Motto of the Crown, or of the chief Ensign of Pre-eminence, _Digniori detur_, and so continued till the Degeneracy of Time, and the baneful Growth of An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland
It is a local pre-eminence that has been achieved with a style of football that won as many plaudits as points.
His power over her is such that when he dies her voice collapses, she loses her eminence, languishes, and finally dies herself.
Mr. Pratt, our new curate, is allowed to be a classical scholar of considerable eminence, and he has promised to instruct Sam .... The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
Are we to conclude therefore that eminence can not be allowed as a yardstick of creativity?
The Church was dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary on 3 October 1875 by His Eminence Paul Cardinal Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin…
On the medial wall of the entrance to the antrum is a rounded eminence, situated above and behind the prominence of the facial canal; it corresponds with the position of the ampullated ends of the superior and lateral semicircular canals. X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1d. 2. The Middle Ear or Tympanic Cavity
the President's wife is an eminence grise in matters of education
This was the perfect voice to carry pop culture through the mid-60s, till things went tragic and the Beatles turned into eminences cloistered enough to be their own parodies.
James, by contrast, has risen to a heady eminence which serves to further emphasize the humiliation of his sibling.
In that moment he rises above his stupid gianthood, and earnestly warns the Son of Light that all his power and eminence of priesthood, godhood, and kingship must stand or fall with the unbearable cold greatness of the incorruptible law-giver. The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring
You see them cruising the skies in an effortless glide or perched on an eminence with their eyes busy. Times, Sunday Times
Vile intrigues, unnatural crimes, and every vice that degrades our nature, have been the steps to this distinguished eminence; yet millions of men have supinely allowed the nerveless limbs of the posterity of such rapacious prowlers to rest quietly on their ensanguined thrones. 5 5 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Since the beginning of the last century we read, indeed, of some able statesmen, as most, if not all, the former grand pensionaries have been; but the name of no warrior of any great eminence is recorded. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
These neurons project axons to the median eminence where they secrete CRH into the hypophysial portal blood.
They are what I would term exudative volcanic mountains, the results of a comparatively gentle discharge of volcanic matter, which has resulted in heaped up eminences; a vast group of which were displayed in the illustration, some of them being upwards of 20,000 feet high. James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography.
Micky Steele-Bodger Barbarians' eminence and 85 early in September captained Cambridge in 1946 and won nine caps for England as a teaky bear‑hugging back-row barnstormer. Singing the blues for rugby's Major event and its men of Steele
In "Office of the Dead," for example, the hooded figures in the background are clearly separated from the tonsured clerics in the middle-ground, who in turn stand apart from the robed eminences in the foreground. 'Fashion In The Middle Ages' At The Getty Center, Los Angeles
It flourished until the last quarter of the 18th century, when neoclassicism gained preeminence in Latin America.
Salieri, who has risen from humble origins to his position of eminence through sheer hard work, is a deeply devout man.
There is no doubt that with every noble art, the greater the honours that are bestowed upon it, the greater the responsibilities which it assumes; and now that the stage has been endorsed-using the term in its widest sense-as a necessary and useful branch of public service, it certainly behooves the stage, and it behooves the public to see that it shall not derogate from the eminence on which it has been placed. The Drama as a Factor in Social Progress
The artistry of the hidden beauty lies in its polysemy, and that of the visible in its unsurpassed preeminence.
It was a really interesting case of symbiosis between public interest and private initiative, and high-level bureaucrats soon rose to positions of great eminence in the planning of the war economy.
He scored eight of Brazil's 18 goals to reassert his global pre-eminence on the most celebrated stage of all.
Generations of very clever Foreign Office eminences have devoted their meagre resources to just one futile aim - punching above our weight on the world stage.
She was strongly committed to her job, a policewoman by eminence.
The disappearance of the library was a loss to Alexandria's eminence.
Intellectual life was not so dissimilar, vitality after the war coming largely from external sources, émigrés from Central and Eastern Europe, with few local eminences.
Many of the pilots were to achieve eminence in the aeronautical world.
“Episcopacy, says he [583], that is to say the preheminence of a Pastor, is not contrary to the Divine right. The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius
I beg your forgiveness, Your Eminence, but we don't have any boards and considering the depth of the pit the wood will surely break.
The muscles of the hand are subdivided into three groups: (1) those of the thumb, which occupy the radial side and produce the thenar eminence; (2) those of the little finger, which occupy the ulnar side and give rise to the hypothenar eminence; (3) those in the middle of the palm and between the metacarpal bones. IV. Myology. 1F. The Muscles and Fasciæ of the Hand
He then vitalizes this theory by describing the rise of the United States to world preeminence, employing a highly original structure and a set of sophisticated, internally consistent paradigms.
So the Community is particularly touched this evening by the visit of His Eminence, Cardinal Rodriguez and the topic of the Lecture, ‘Signs of Hope’.
But the most impressive structures along what became the A40 were the three big monumental brick blocks rising on the north side on an eminence at Park Royal.
At last they saw him emerge on the top of an eminence within hail.
‘In the courtyard, Your Eminence,’ replied Cygnatus, extending his arm toward the atrium.
Abyla to the eminence in Africa on the opposite side of the strait, and both of these eminences formed the renowned Pillars of Hercules. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
The resulting nervous signals reach certain neuroendocrine cells in the median eminence (ME) of the hypothalamus, where they are transformed into CRF (corticotrophic hormone releasing factor), a chemical messenger that has not yet been isolated in pure form but is probably a polypeptide. Handbook of Stress
A Texan gentleman with private means, he has been the eminence grise behind four relatively liberal Texas governors.
There was a kind of stealthiness in their progress, even when they walked erect; but it soon appeared to Lionel that Roderick, who went first, seemed to be keeping a series of natural eminences between them and a certain distant tract of this silent and lonely land. Prince Fortunatus
`His Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop"--he bowed nervously at the prelate `is well-known. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
Clearly, some human rights have greater pre-eminence than others and it may be necessary to identify them through a hierarchy of relative importance.
But he came comparatively late to the profession where he attained such pre-eminence.
Anyone who thinks this team is cruising slowly and steadily towards a position of true eminence in world rugby is fooling themselves. Times, Sunday Times
Few could have predicted that she would reach eminence as a surgeon.
Nautilus "(1832), Professor Owen describes" on each side, at the roots of the branchiæ, "" a small mamillary eminence with a transverse slit which conducts from the branchial cavity into the pericardium. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
The Rev. Robert Kirke was, it seems, walking upon a little eminence to the west of the present manse, which is still held a Dun Shie, or fairy mound, when he sunk down, in what seemed to mortals a fit, and was supposed to be dead. Rob Roy
I curtsied low and said, ‘Good evening, Your Eminence.’
This tract is beautifully undulating in its surface, containing a number of bold eminences, steep acclivities, and deep shadowy valleys.
Following the lecture His Eminence will Pontificate at a Solemn Mass according to the Missal of Paul VI in intercession for the beatification of John Henry Newman at the Oxford Oratory at 6.00 pm. George Cardinal Pell to Visit Oxford, Sung Vespers at Merton, Mass at the Oxford Oratory
Constantine, the eldest of the Caesars, obtained, with a certain preeminence of rank, the possession of the new capital, which bore his own name and that of his father. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Early nationalists in search of martial heroes raised him to the eminence of a ‘freedom fighter‘.
I cannot conclude these opinions without paying tribute to the talents of my illustrious country-women; who, unpatronized by the courts, and unprotected by the powerful, persevere in the paths of literature, and ennoble themselves by the unperishable lustre of MENTAL PRE-EMINENCE! Sappho and Phaon
A second savage attempted to gain the eminence which commanded the position where the scouts were posted, but just as he was about to attain his object, McClelland saw him turn a summerset, and, with a frightful yell, fall down the hill, a corpse. Woman on the American Frontier
There are certain men and women who by reason of their genius, eminence, achievement, or idiosyncrasy seem to exercise a sort of magnetism on biographers and publishers.
This sort of people have a certain pre-eminence, and more estimation than labourers and the common sort of artificers, and these commonly live wealthily, keep good houses, and travel to get riches. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
On its medial wall is a longitudinal eminence, the calcar avis (hippocampus minor), which is an involution of the ventricular wall produced by the calcarine fissure. IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon
In past single-party eras, the majority party earned its preeminence with broad popular support.
Therefore he is called Shem, which signifies a name, because in his posterity the name of God should always remain, till he should come out of his loins whose name is above every name; so that in putting Shem first Christ was, in effect, put first, who in all things must have the pre-eminence. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)
The pre-eminence of gold was helped by the discovery of gold in California, Canada, Alaska, Australia, and South Africa in the nineteenth century.
How one couchant beast, with its imperturbable gravitas, a heraldic chunk of London itself, moved without lifting a paw, from the site on the south bank of the Thames being cleared for the Festival of Britain in 1951, to Waterloo Station with its martial trappings, and on to its present eminence alongside the decommissioned County Hall. The Festival of Britain, 60 years on
The surgeon will penetrate the last the most easily, particularly by taking for his guide the eminence which indicates the attachment of the tibialis anticus muscle to the inside of the os naviculare. A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
The articular eminence of the glenoid fossa is rectangular and broad transversely.
In front of the upper end of the bone, between the condyles, is an oval eminence, the tuberosity, which is continuous below with the anterior crest of the bone. XII. Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings. 13. Surface Anatomy of the Lower Extremity
The honorary position is seen as a reward for professional eminence in the field.
There was more meat in the young grey eminence than his critics have allowed. Times, Sunday Times
Still, broadcasters aren't ready to cede long-form pre-eminence to cable just yet.
Upriver loomed the rocky eminence of Nephin Mountain.
The kingdom of Kent having enjoyed a continued peace for about a hundred years, was arrived at a degree of power and riches which gave it a pre-eminence in the Saxon heptarchy in Britain, and so great a superiority and influence over the rest, that Ethelbert is said by Bede to have ruled as far as the Humber, and Ethelbert is often styled king of the English. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
It was also another case of cap-doffing to unelected 'eminences' whose support could prove politically useful to Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed
The fissures comprise the choroidal and hippocampal already described, and two others, viz., the calcarine and collateral, which produce the swellings known respectively as the calcar avis and the collateral eminence in the ventricular cavity. IX. Neurology. 2. Development of the Nervous System
You see them cruising the skies in an effortless glide or perched on an eminence with their eyes busy. Times, Sunday Times
They show particular eminence in fencing, wrestling, pentathlon, swimming and canoeing.
Even more remarkable is the size of the American military preeminence.
The Nerve to the Stapedius (n. stapedius; tympanic branch) arises opposite the pyramidal eminence (page 1042); it passes through a small canal in this eminence to reach the muscle. IX. Neurology. 5g. The Facial Nerve
For surely all these years, while she had used and relied on him, she had also been jealous of him, and grudged him his pre-eminence. A River So Long
Within the body of the cartilage arises a forked eminence called antihelix, which terminates in a small and short tongue called antitragus. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
The double standard may be disputed by a few of these individuals, but not the preeminence of physical appeal.
I delight to make him scramble to the tops of eminences and to the foot of waterfalls, and am obliged in turn to admire his turnips, his lucern, and his timothy-grass. Chapter XVII
Yesterday a sailplane landed as light as that proverbial feather in Grasmere . . . under the beetling eminence of Helm Crag . . . Country diary: Grasmere, Lake District
I question whether the persistent giddiness I feel around bristlecones is the altitude or a sense of their profound preeminence.
In his "introduction" he satisfied some curiosity, but raised still more, when speaking of the English Gypsies and especially of their eminence "in those disgraceful and brutalising exhibitions called pugilistic combats. George Borrow The Man and His Books
America claimed for its institutions superior legitimacy and for its people a clear moral pre-eminence.
The neurohypophysis proper comprises the median eminence of the tuber cinereum, the infundibulum, the pituitary stalk, and the posterior or neural lobe of the pituitary gland.
The under surface of the jugular process is rough, and gives attachment to the Rectus capitis lateralis muscle and the lateral atlantoöccipital ligament; from this surface an eminence, the paramastoid process, sometimes projects downward, and may be of sufficient length to reach, and articulate with, the transverse process of the atlas. II. Osteology. 5a. The Cranial Bones. 1. The Occipital Bone
The two gentlemen enjoy a philosophic view of the early morning landscape from a neighbouring eminence, Mazard Hill.
She stood on a swarded eminence from which the gently molded slopes ran away, soft as velvet under the starlight. The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian
(Note that the adjective in Emma that vies with "every" for preeminence is "interesting.") Social Theory at Box Hill: Acts of Union
Filaret owed his eminence less to his holy office than to his son's willingness to treat him as a co-ruler.
Which being thus granted by me, whosoever shal succeede me in the government, may (as being of more power and preheminence) restraine all backe againe to the accustomed lawes. The Decameron
Philologists of yet greater name affirm that it was meant to designate _pre-eminence_, and therefore ought to be written _ante_, before, from the Latin, a language now pretty well forgotten, though the authors who wrote in it are still preserved in French translations. The Wit of Women Fourth Edition
The term fissure is applied to such grooves as involve the entire thickness of the cerebral wall, and thus produce corresponding eminences in the ventricular cavity, while the sulci affect only the superficial part of the wall, and therefore leave no impressions in the ventricle. IX. Neurology. 2. Development of the Nervous System
Montrose, conscious of the superiority of his talents, and of having rendered great service to the Covenanters at the beginning of the war, had expected from that party the supereminence of council and command, which they judged it safer to intrust to the more limited faculties, and more extensive power, of his rival Argyle. A Legend of Montrose

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