pre-eminence

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pre-eminent
It is clear that by 1893 the cadenza had achieved a pre-eminent status, already known as ' famous cadenza with flute'.
As a form of letting loose frustrations or organizing society, dance has a pre-eminent place in these accounts because it is made of movement.
History in practice, however, is unlikely to supplant any of the more obviously pre-eminent works of historiographic writing from the academic's shelves.
First, in the process of solving design problems the freehand drawing is the pre-eminent tool employed by nine of the 10 architects interviewed.
Among the 50- to 91-year-olds, very is the pre-eminent intensifier.
Starting with an obviously pre-eminent erudition and an enviable range of knowledge, he has assembled great forces of evidence and argument.
It is not possible to specify the magnitude of this role and this article does not assume that the role has been pre-eminent.
In fact the new nature is therefore the pre-eminent product of the late twentieth-century landscape, as a fully planned and controllable cultural construction.
It was restored to its pre-eminent was restored to its pre-eminent position when the monarchy was position when the monarchy was itself restored in 1660.
This contrasts in some measure with some work in ' cognitive semantics ' which seems to focus more on the pre-eminent role of conceptualization for language.
In the writer's opinion these stand pre-eminent among the fumigants, although hydrocyanic acid possesses the higher lethal effect, whether evolved by the liquid method or by exposing calcium cyanide.
Whereas in the earlier work the semantics of language were underscored as pre-eminent, with the computer-typed font it is the syntax of language that becomes most significant.
During this period, even though sugar did not hold a pre-eminent place, an expanding domestic market and a favourable tax policy for cane plantations stimulated investments in primitive milling technology.
The assessment of the prisoner's current level of risk is the pre-eminent factor in determining whether he/she may be granted parole.
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