How To Use Eminent In A Sentence

Great Alardyce is indeed of the same generation as Carlyle, Harriet Martineau numbering as a member of both eminent men's circles.
Eating has always been preeminently a human, communal and convivial pleasure. Times, Sunday Times
The idea seemed eminently feasible. SPICE: The History of a Temptation
Eminent theatre personalities Zohra Segal and Ebrahim Alkazi and noted 'mridangam' Carnatic artist Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman are the other three chosen for Padma Vibhushan award by the government which, in all, named 130 people, including 13 in the category of foreigners, NRIs and PIOs. 43 are Padma Bhushan and 83 are Padma Shri. The Times of India
To study viral infections, Weitz teamed with postdoctoral fellow Yuriy Mileyko, graduate student Richard Joh and Eberhard Voit, who is a professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, the David D. Flanagan Chair Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Biological Systems and director of the new Integrative BioSystems Institute at Georgia Tech. Nearly all previous theoretical studies have claimed that switching between "lysis" and Innovations-report

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The U.S. was so pre-eminent in military power as to be unchallengeable in any serious way, but it was also widely admired and emulated.
Viv was British rugby's pre-eminent full-back through the 1930s, last line and top dog for Wales and the Lions, an Oxford double blue, a Glamorgan cricketer and, conspicuously, the first full-back ever to score a try in a Five Nations match – against Ireland in 1934. Tons of reasons to support the monarchs of sport | Frank Keating
But he said the county, with its lakes and mountains, had an eminently marketable image that could play well with the wider public.
Here are some excerpts from the opinions expressed by some eminent personalities.
Natural History From aardwolves and bandicoots to yapoks and zorillas, Ernest P. Walker's Mammals of the World is the most comprehensive - the pre-eminent - reference work on mammals.
Seldom has a more acidulous portrait of the city been drawn by one of its preeminent members.
The answer is that the clubs lay at the heart of industrial Lanarkshire and football was pre-eminently the game of steelworkers, miners and shipbuilders.
[146] Johnson's observations on Addison's writings may be well applied to those of Cicero, who would have been eminently successful in short miscellaneous essays, like those of the Spectator, had the manners of the age allowed it. Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity
Both genres, so formulaic, overdetermined by clichés and stereotypes, are eminently accessible for parody.
He visited all the Balkan countries, meeting with eminent public figures.
Designed by the eminent architect C. J. Phipps, the Royal has enjoyed a history of live theatre since 1884.
Each spring, corporate America's preeminent chieftains offer sage counsel to eager university graduates across the nation.
His biography is eminently sensible on a subject about which much high-flown transcendental nonsense has been written.
While leaders in Beijing remain vigilant against Japanese "rearmament," their rhetoric is part of an orchestrated strategy to overtake Japan as the region's pre-eminent power. Smoke Alarm
His books on diplomatic history were eminently readable.
Recently Fuchs 14.133 has reported his experience in cornea-grafting in sections, as a substitute for von Hippel's method, in parenchymatous keratitis and corneal staphyloma, and though not eminently successful himself, he considers the operation worthy of trial in cases that are without help, and doomed to blindness. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
And let's not forget that News Corp. has shown itself to be eminently fallible in the online realm: This is the company that spent $580 million to buy the social-networking sinkhole known as MySpace. News Corp. launches its tablet-only The Daily app for the iPad
The idea that mountain folds, and the lesser rugosities of the Earth's surface, arose in a wrinkling of the crust under the influence of cooling and skrinkage of the subcrustal materials, is held by many eminent geologists, but not without dissent from others. The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays
All plants produce their own toxins or they wouldn't survive predators, and as noted by eminent University of California biologist Bruce Ames, a high proportion – about half – of these toxins tested in animal cancer bioassays are carcinogenic. Turning gene science into a fishy business
I don't myself find these questions entirely uninteresting, but are they really the preeminently "serious" kinds of questions a writer of fiction can pursue? Saying Something
The City decided that the area needed to be "revitalized" and they did eminent domain on the entire area and bulldozed hundreds of Craftsman style homes. <a href="http://althouse.blogspot.com/2007/12/great-thing-about-america-is-that-once.html" title=""The great thing about America, is that once you own property, you own
He himself had aspired with eminent success: the conception was a self-educator's dream.
Vecchi composed some excellent church music, but his fame rests on his light madrigals and canzonettas, written in an eminently singable and attractive style.
They are Marc C. Bingham, entrepreneur and Utah businessman; Huey D. Johnson, pioneering conservationist and environmental policy maker; Bonnie D. Parkin, former Relief Society President for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; and Bertrand D. Tanner, eminent micrometeorologist and scientific entrepreneur, who will be honored posthumously. Undefined
I could never deny, in looking back upon what followed, that I was eminently stockish; and I must say the ladies were well drilled to have so long a patience with me. David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.
Although Neville was supremely competent both as a newspaper journalist and as a broadcaster, I always thought of him pre-eminently as a man of the arts.
However, having seen the questionnaire upon which this research is to be based, I do hope ministers, poor lambs that they are, have been included in this eminently worthwhile exercise.
The film was made under the auspices of the British Film Institute's Production Board, on which I served in the 1960s and 70s alongside, among others, Karel Reisz, Carl Foreman and the eminent documentarist Basil Wright. Britain's best film directors show some early promise
What may cost the taxpayer dearly is appointing a new group of politicians to eminent posts with poorly-defined functions.
The same is true of the amicus briefs in eminent domain litigation. Back to the Bench, Andy
It is remarkable to notice in the history of French cathedrals how many of them were rebuilt just at the time when the pointed style, which may be called preeminently the Christian style of architecture, had come to birth almost simultaneously in various countries of Europe. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1
Unfortunately, while it is eminently pragmatic, that doesn't mean that it's actually morally right.
'The first instance I shall give of the abiding influence of strong impressions received in infancy, is in the character of a lady who is now no more; and who was too eminent for piety and virtue, to leave any doubt of her being now exalted to the enjoyment of that felicity which her enfeebled mind, during its abode on earth, never dared to contemplate. The Mother's Book
Nor is it the intention of this reviewer to compare the translation with those of other equally eminent scholars.
This would not be so upsetting were it not for the fact that sports stadiums have been accepted as a "public use" for eminent domain purposes, so that government can take people's homes from them in order to build these stadiums -- hardly the sort of thing the authors of the Fifth Amendment considered a public use. Sports Stadiums, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
In 1920, he took a job in Berlin, where Wernher and his brother Sigismund studied at the Wilhelms-Gymnasium, later part of the eminent French Gymnasium. Exploring 'Von Braun'
Certain words drift into the realm of nothingness to be eminently forgotten.
Eminent French aviator ordered to the ground and sent home for conspiring with unsavory babu to smuggle undesirables to Katmandu, which is forbidden territory! Jimgrim
Young yet, barely thirty-six, eminently handsome, magnificently strong, almost bursting with a splendid virility, his free trail-stride, never learned on pavements, and his black eyes, hinting of great spaces and unwearied with the close perspective of the city dwellers, drew many a curious and wayward feminine glance. Chapter I
While eminent singers will be involved as members of the jury, the talent scouting exercise will go on for six consecutive months.
Natural gas will become the preeminent fuel of the 21 st century, according to widespread expectation.
Scott Joplin is regarded as the pre-eminent composer of ragtime compositions.
Todd says that the White House is attempting to get "command and control" over a situation that's substantively not too eminently commandable or controllable. TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads
The order was created in 1902 as a special distinction for eminent men and women.
For besids ye eminente dangers of this viage, which are no less then deadly, an infirmitie of body Hath seased me, which will not in all licelyhoode leave me till death. The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete
We asked William Diamond, pre-eminent expert in international taxation, for his picks.
Nor can we close this article without some allusion to the translators of and adapters from the Irish, of whom two stand out pre-eminently, Lady Gregory in prose and Dr. Sigerson in verse. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
Now that the party's deputy leader has announced she will not stand in next year's Assembly elections, the party is to be stripped of its only eminent woman and bleached of its last shade of green.
Before his involvement in the Piltdown excavations, Teilhard was nothing more than a young priest with aspirations in science, who had collected fossils and pre-eminently fossil sea urchins, in Egypt.
Prices for these upscale public courses range from the eminently affordable to bordering on the budget buster.
This is one idea that seems eminently transferable to the average cramped terraced home. Times, Sunday Times
Her breeding and background made her eminently acceptable in royal circles.
He transformed vascular surgery, inventing procedures that made some of the gravest conditions of the main vessels eminently treatable. Times, Sunday Times
What eminent gifts are poured out in the days wherein we live! what light is bestowed! what pains in preaching! how is the dispensation of the word multiplied! The Sermons of John Owen
Next year the Times Literary Supplement, the pre-eminent British literary periodical, is 100 years old.
In two grand, characteristic attributes, it is supereminent over all others: first in its universality, for it is capacious enough to receive and cherish in its paternal bosom every child that comes into the world: and second, in the timeliness of the aid it proffers, - its early, seasonable supplies of counsel and guidance making security antedate danger.
The maker of the breaching axes is Daniel Winkler who, for twenty years or more has been pre-eminent in the re-creation of frontier cutlery. More On Axes
About the tropics of the large septarium above mentioned, are circular eminent lines, such as might have been left if it had been coarsely turned in a lathe. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
Water shoes, on the other hand, may not look sporty, but they're eminently sport-worthy, with features like grippy, sensitive soles, lacing systems for rough water, and exit valves for quick drying.
In Scotland, the bannock was pre-eminently made with barley (or bere meal, bere being a primitive form of barley that does better in acid soils); in England, more often of oats.
The name commemorates Glen Seaborg, the eminent American nuclear physicist and Nobel prizewinner.
Workplace health and safety is an eminently worthy topic, but not one that many people bother to follow closely.
After all the EU is rapidly overtaking the States as the pre-eminent economic superpower.
Stressing what the naked eye could see helped him lay the foundations of pathological anatomy, following the initiatives of the preeminent anatomist, Giovanni Morgagni.
From this concept also comes the notion that divinity is both eminent (internal) and transcendent (external). Saving Salmon vs. Climate Change
Everything about this car is classic, yet it remains eminently affordable.
This description bears marked similarities to those offered by a number of eminent sociologists who adopt the trait approach.
To find answers this programme gathered together a group of eminent people from a variety of backgrounds.
Robert Parker, the pre-eminent American, falls into this group of experts.
Caterham is the pre-eminent sports car manufacturer in its sector producing lightweight, affordable road and racecars with supercar performance.
By no means a pleasant experience, this is a supermarket after all, but an eminently bearable one with zero stress.
The eminent biologist played a crucial role in the fight to decriminalize homosexuality in Britain.
Under them, the entire company -- most notably McLeavy as a tender-tough Stella and Tim Richards as unpolished but compassionate gentleman-caller Mitch -- vivify a revival that works to remind anyone who's forgotten that here's one of the handful of preeminent 20-century American plays. David Finkle: Blanchett as Blanche in Tennessee Williams's Streetcar Named Desire
Czerny's music is eminently playable, predictable and listenable to in the same sort of way that Vivaldi's is eminently playable, predictable and listenable.
But Philip, as he frequently said, was preeminently a "practician," wherefore he gently covered the girl with his coat, busied himself with the lantern and, for various reasons, sought to create a general atmosphere of commonplace reality. Diane of the Green Van
After the Second World War eminent surviving German and Japanese civilian and military figures were arraigned on criminal charges before international tribunals.
That eminent chemist was the first who drew attention to the distinction which may be made of all substances into two classes, termed by him crystalloids and colloids; or rather, of all states of matter into the crystalloid and the colloidal states, for many substances are capable of existing in either. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
His language might at times ascend to rhapsody, yet his was an uncommonly practical approach - radical in the sense of attacking the preeminent social problem at its root, but basically conservative as to method.
Pre-eminent among the outer Kingdoms is Eataine, within whose borders lies Lothern, the greatest seaport in all the world.
The result is an eminently readable account that captures the spirit of those heady days.
This time around the authors are not drunken magazine hacks back from a long lunch; they're all eminent scientists, boffins and inventors.
Mures, Muscae, culices prae se, nits and flies compared to his inexorable and supercilious, eminent and arrogant worship: though indeed they be far before him. Anatomy of Melancholy
Bishop Fenelon, a contemporary of Louis XIV, was an eminent and great philosopher, a critic of government, and tutor to the Duke of Burgoyne, heir to the French throne.
I called the eminent scientist for an inter-view.
He called the eminent feminist author Kate Millett "big tits" and tried to kiss her before the live show was taken off air and replaced with a grainy documentary about coal mining. Great TV gaffes
M. Wastchenko possesses in an eminent degree what Swift calls the aldermanly, but never to be over estimated quality, Discretion; he was considered generally a very safe man. Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844.
In taking such excessive, evasive action he was not the only eminent Victorian to be sickened by the idea of engaging in sexual congress.
Yea, and whereas to the carrying on of that course of obedience, it is necessary that the contrary principle unto it, which we mentioned before, be daily subdued, brought under, crucified, and mortified; there are no doctrines whatsoever that are of such and so direct and eminent a serviceableness to that end and purpose as those which inwrap such discoveries of God and his goodwill in The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
Its driving ambition to claim a share in global power as Asia’s preeminent state—the sponsor and organizer of the “Asian coprosperity sphere”—was turning to ashes. Out of Control
The present volume, bright as it is in expression, is full of evidences that the author has submitted to the austerest requirements of his laborious profession; and if his opinions generally coincide with those which have been somewhat reluctantly adopted by the most eminent physicians of the age, it is certain that he has not jumped to his conclusions, but has reached them by patient and independent thought, study, and observation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861
Hot Chip, is a five piece electronic dance band from London, who have laid claim to the term overseas with their eminently danceable brand of pseudo-electronic pop. EARVOLUTION
But in Timor's case, the facts of the situation made it an eminently resolvable problem, and one of my complaints about the media would be its failure to articulate the underlying facts and their resolvability.
I questioned a prominent economist from one of the country's pre-eminent economic institutions.
DESTOMBES, Les vies des Saints et des personnes d'une eminente piete de Cambrai et d'Arras (Lille, 1890); CHEVALIER, Topo-bibliographie, The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
So, keeping up the metaphor, the word might be rendered, as has been suggested by some eminent scholars, 'placarded' -- 'Before whose eyes Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
Spartan dominance rose from its unquestionable position as the preeminent continental army of the region.
The big three can still be relevant, mind you; I suspect Asimov’s was essential in bootstrapping Charles Stross into being the decade’s pre-eminent SF writer when it published the short stories that would eventually become the Hugo-nominated novel Accelerando. Marketing the Big Three, Part 2
The text is eminently readable and supported by detailed citations and a voluminous index.
Three eminent persons who rendered service for the senior citizens were also honoured on the occasion.
He is eminent both as a sculptor and as a portrait painter.
South African author Roland Starke is given a prominent credit as all writers are in Frears's films, something that derives from his apprenticeship at the Royal Court, our pre-eminent writers 'theatre. Britain's best film directors show some early promise
Literature is, nowadays, preeminently narrative fiction of a realist kind. Times, Sunday Times
But Moses, and after him the high priests, were prophets of a more eminent place and degree in God's favour; and God Himself in express words declareth that to other prophets He spake in dreams and visions, but to His servant Moses in such manner as a man speaketh to his friend. Leviathan
No, there was nothing sublime and dolorous about Miss Manners; her face was round, cheery, and slightly puckered, with two little black eyes sparking and shining under dark brows, a nose she unblushingly called pug, and a big mouth with eminently white and regular teeth, which she said were such a comfort, for they never ached, and never would to the end of time. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861
a wide variety of pre-eminently contemporary scenes
That suddenly makes the cost of repairing our fine Victorian building seem eminently reasonable.
Toronto's exchange and its venture affiliate, the TSX Venture Exchange, are known as the preeminent places to raise capital for exploration, hosting about 1,900 energy and mining firms that raised about $29 billion in equity last year. London, Toronto Exchanges to Merge
Those of the first class, well known as the insignia of certain eminent personages and powerful houses, were borne by all the followers, retainers, dependants, and partisans of those personages and houses: and they were so borne by them, and they were used by their owners for every variety of decorative purpose, because they were _known and understood_; and, consequently, because the presence of these Badges would cause all persons and objects bearing them to be readily and certainly distinguished. The Handbook to English Heraldry
I think GM is eminently re-organizable," said Durc Savini, managing director at Miller Buckfire & Co., a New York investment banking firm that advised on the bankruptcies at auto suppliers Dana Corp. and Dura Automotive Inc. Big Three Seek $34 Billion Aid
The presumption that experts know more about their subject than laymen is eminently reasonable. Trust the Experts: A Reasonable, Defeasible Presumption, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Preeminent among Luther's complaints were the practice of selling of indulgences (essentially, the selling of forgiveness for sin), the practice of "simony" (selling church positions), and the Church's policy on purgatory. The Vail Trail - All Sections
A native of North Carolina, Gray is one of the pre-eminent lawyers here in Washington, and a tireless champion of conservative causes.
He was called on to anaesthetise many eminent patients, who became donors to the medical school.
This was the first of many acquisitions, which would culminate 40 years later in what is widely known as the preeminent collection of Dalí's work in America. San Antonio Business News - Local San Antonio News | The San Antonio Business Journal
After all, he was an eminently eligible man, attractive and immensely wealthy.
One of the pre-eminent landscape architects of her day, Gertrude Jekyll, did the landscaping side of the work.
The party was pre-eminently the party of the landed interest.
To most people, that would seem eminently reasonable. The Sun
No, the march, the work song, the love lyric, the ballad, the sea chantey, the nursery rhyme, the limerick—those are the preeminent forms, and all those have four beats to them. THE ANTHOLOGIST
At a glance this seems eminently reasonable - not least if it protects us from Family videos.
Scott Joplin is regarded as the pre-eminent composer of ragtime compositions.
According to the eminent modern philosopher Karl Popper, the defining characteristic of science is that its assertions are falsifiable.
(Childe was an eminent British prehistorian whose Marxism got him into hot water in his native Australia; during the early cold war, he maintained contact with archaeologists in the Soviet Union.) "Would a die-hard anticommunist really recommend a Marxist archaeologist to a student?" demands Golub. Boing Boing
It was a calamitous mistake, not least because it was eminently avoidable.
He compared the life spans of eminent clergymen and doctors and found, on average, that doctors lived about six months longer. FINGERPRINTS: Murder and the Race to Uncover the Science of Identity
The eminent historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. has sometimes been labeled a hagiographer for the Camelot chords he struck, but A Thousand Days is an intricate and serious narrative biography with sweeping historical themes and incisive drypoint character sketches. American Sketches
No author, excepting Pope, has done so much to endenizen the eminent poets of antiquity.
Because he was so often referred to in pompous tones as ‘the eminent historian and biographer’, I would sometimes address him as: ‘Dear eminence.’
As Gratiolet remarks, whenever our attention is long concentrated on any subject, we forget to breathe, and then relieve ourselves by a deep inspiration; but the sighs of a sorrowful person, owing to his slow respiration and languid circulation, are eminently characteristic. 1 As the grief of a person in this state occasionally recurs and increases into a paroxysm, spasms affect the respiratory muscles, and he feels as if something, the so-called globus hystericus, was rising in his throat. The expression of the emotions in man and animals
Times_ will be taken at the next performance of _Parsifal_ by Mr. WATERER, the great floricultural expert, and Mr. DEVANT, the eminent conjurer, with Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914
Your level of participation is up to you and scheduling is eminently flexible.
One of the most eminent pianists of his generation as well as a scholar of considerable attainments, Paul Badura Skoda's recordings date back to the 1950s.
Indeed, the reasonably quick and informal procedure of industrial tribunals is eminently suitable for most cases.
Suspicion, the offspring of fear, is eminently characteristic of most wild animals.
An eminent behavioural neurologist, he has spent many years understanding why and how people remember and forget.
That of the Mohammedans, who make him an eminent angel, and sometimes say it is Gabriel; which, being traduced from the Macedonians of old, hath found some defenders and promoters in our days. Pneumatologia
And, buildings are eminent in this lovely, distant dreamworld. Times, Sunday Times
With conflicting forensic evidence, the Crown's case was bolstered by an eminent paediatrician testifying that the chances of two cot deaths happening in this family was a vanishingly small 1 in 73 million.
Despite these shortcomings, this is an interesting and eminently readable textbook.
The only drawback to this eminently plausible case is that there is not a scrap of evidence for it.
Rule four makes it sound eminently sensible, especially as it is voluntary.
And yet we are willing to expose our selves to shuch eminente dangers as are like to insue, & trust to ye good providence of The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete
There he is surrounded by a salon of interesting people he has collected, including the eminently clubbable journalist, Sneath.
I think not; and the conclusion implied by our authors seems to me eminently probable, that in the so-called ether we have simply a state of matter more primitive than what we know as the gaseous state. The Unseen World, and Other Essays
The true cinchona barks, containing quinine, quinidine, and cinchonine, are distinguished from the false by their splintery-fibrous texture, the latter being pre-eminently corky. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America
My informant was Professor Tholuck, of Halle University, the most eminent living theologian in Germany, and the principal ecclesiarch of the Prussian Church. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860
This is a much-needed and eminently readable book that is likely to remain a standard work for many years to come. Times, Sunday Times
London is one of the world's pre-eminent financial capitals. Times, Sunday Times
Let us not hesitate to admit that my eminent friend omitted to give us the name of this ephebe in the course of his demonstrations. The Captive
These seem eminently sensible judgments. Times, Sunday Times
Thus, from the Assyrian researches as well as from other sources, it has come to be acknowledged by the most eminent scholars at the leading seats of Christian learning that the accounts of creation with which for nearly two thousand years all scientific discoveries have had to be "reconciled" -- the accounts which blocked the way of Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and Laplace -- were simply transcribed or evolved from a mass of myths and legends largely derived by the Hebrews from their ancient relations with Chaldea, rewrought in a monotheistic sense, imperfectly welded together, and then thrown into poetic forms in the sacred books which we have inherited. A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
While he lived Nehru remained the most eminent spokesman for the Third World.
Playing games isn't about not killing each other on the street, eminent domain, interstate commere, contracts for business agreements and economic enforceability. Question 3: Virtual Property
Each chapter has a select bibliography which will be very useful for scholars and students alike and which makes a hefty book eminently manageable. The Times Literary Supplement
The choice fell on Lord Gorell, the son of an eminent judge who had inherited his title from his elder brother.
But the most notable characteristic of the piano is that it is eminently suitable for the tone-deaf.
Even Ann Trason, the pre-eminent woman ultramarathoner who has been the top woman at the Western States 100 an astounding 14 times, says her first ultra was "a really horrible experience."
While this theory isn't true in all cases—I can't write when the two long-haired chihuahuas next door are yipping at my cats—it has enough basis in reality to have been the subject of a highly-regarded study by the eminent literary critic Edmund Wilson, The Wound and the Bow. Writer's Block? Get Nacreous!
And similarly among the Romans, the Rutilii, and Galbæ, and Scauri, men of eminent reputation for purity of life and manners, and for frugality; and in the succeeding generations, many men of censorian and consular rank, and even many who had celebrated triumphs, such as the The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens
Not many years ago great offence was given by an eminent writer who remarked that the time had come when the history of Christianity should be treated in a truly historical spirit, in the same spirit in which we treat the history of other religions, such as Brahmanism, Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion
Mures, Muscae, culices prae se, nits and flies compared to his inexorable and supercilious, eminent and arrogant worship: though indeed they be far before him. Anatomy of Melancholy
The City bought the property under eminent domain proceedings after a protracted battle with the owner.
Dolly at least is alive and well and her first lamb, Bonnie, seems eminently healthy and normal.
His father was Sir Frederick William Herschel, the most eminent astronomer of the age, who discovered Uranus, the only new planet to be seen in the heavens since the classical era.
Most of the presidents of this earlier era are eminently forgettable.
He called him, however, an "eminent sociologist," adding in his announcement of the appointment this explanation: "For the purposes of such a Commission, the term sociologist means a man who has thought and studied deeply on social questions and has practically applied his knowledge. Theodore Roosevelt and His Times
This is a superior Festschrift, filled with fresh ideas, and eminently well deserved.
Or has our boasted progress brought with it a suspicion that female chastity is, after all, an overprized bauble -- that what is no crime against nature should be tolerated by this eminently practical age? The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.
Major League Soccer club, Toronto FC, is a non-American team football club located in Toronto, Ontario and the first Canadian team in the United States 'pre-eminent professional soccer league, Major League Soccer (MLS). Archive 2009-09-01
As Henry Dean, the great sage and eminent junkie would have put it, Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high. The Drawing of the Three
Her breeding and background made her eminently acceptable in royal circles.
Even his opponents continually referred to him as an eminent and brilliant legal scholar, but I certainly didn't find anything in his voluminous writings that could possibly justify such praise.
We anticipated a rusty scow; he commissioned a very handsomely appointed, eminently seaworthy vessel.
Are you saying that these 12 eminent professors are calling for Liddy's conviction to be overturned because the prosector improperly granted him access to exculpatory evidence and the judge improperly admitted such evidence? Balkinization
Much of the land was developed and legally occupied by residents who fought their removal by eminent domain.
Since the 18th century, the Orange Order has been the pre-eminent social and political forum for Protestants.
Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin, the preeminent chroniclers of the Sixties, conclude that “Nothing changed so profoundly in the United States during the 1960s as American religion.” American Grace
However, the German piece will ever remain as a generous attempt to vindicate the honour of a name deformed by impudent ridicule; and its dazzling effect, strengthened by the rich ornateness of the language, deservedly gained for it on the stage the most eminent success. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
Barack Obama was elected president of the United States because a great many people, especially young people, believed he was preeminently on the side of social justice. Dan Agin: Ship of State or Ship of Fools? Barack Obama and Social Justice
It's one of the few publications in existence that is actually eminently more readable on the Net than it is on paper.
Rotterdam was eminently forgettable and we passed through it quickly.
It is sad that such eminent judges who found themselves in some embarrassing situation had to resort to such tactics.
The real ‘Key West lime juice’ is a gourmet's delight, pre-eminently suited for use in a variety of pastry pies.
The narrator calls it a "uniped," or some sort of one-footed goblin, [232] but that is hardly reasonable, for after the shooting it went on to perform the further quite human and eminently Indian-like act of running away. [ The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest
He is simultaneously the world's preeminent deal-maker and mischief-maker. Times, Sunday Times
Madeira, belonging to Mr. John Hancock, an eminent merchant of Boston, the tidesman, Thomas Kirk, went on board, and was followed by Captain The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816
But the eminent Samoan chief and scholar Napoleone Tuiteleleapaga finds none of these etymologies convincing.
The dish was also eminently suitable for service in a restaurant, good to look at and practical to assemble.
The "point and surprise" which he speaks of as characterizing the style of Plutarch belong eminently to his own. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
He spoke with scorn of the "rights of women," their demand for the suffrage, and the _cohue_ of female authors, expressing himself in terms of ridiculous disparagement of writers so eminent as George Sand and George Eliot; but he strenuously advocated the claim of women to a recognised medical education. Thomas Carlyle
Taste is thereby an eminently social sense, an observation that implicitly further discredits its alleged privacy and indisputability. Tastes and Pleasures
Despite several eminent scientists predicting that electric light bulbs in a circuit would never work, a lamp powered by current produced by dynamos was demonstrated on 21 October 1879.
It is eminently a product of what I have ventured to call the rationalistic temper. Pragmatism
An eminent futurologist predicted many years ago that humans would eventually evolve without legs as we would have no use for them.
Recently Fuchs has reported his experience in cornea-grafting in sections, as a substitute for von Hippel's method, in parenchymatous keratitis and corneal staphyloma, and though not eminently successful himself, he considers the operation worthy of trial in cases that are without help, and doomed to blindness. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

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