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He went on to an eminent career as a social anthropologist, but in 1946 he ceased to be a poet.
It took Ms. Copps three years after the disclosure to take action and have the eminent nepotist replaced.
An eminent behavioural neurologist, he has spent many years understanding why and how people remember and forget.
As long as five years ago, the three main newsweeklies had locked up eminent presidential historians to write his valedictories.
Here are some excerpts from the opinions expressed by some eminent personalities.
Nor is it the intention of this reviewer to compare the translation with those of other equally eminent scholars.
These eminent lexicographers reckon that the golden days of literacy have past.
The building on Queen Street houses portraits of eminent Scots, antiquities, and the national photography collection.
Rumour has it that eminent politicians come here seeking discretion and peace.
For the past 18 years, the company has established itself as the eminent choice of discerning customers in the moulding industry.
Federal agencies would be granted the power of eminent domain to speed the building of more power transmission lines.
As a young man he presented a paper on astrophysics that was publicly ridiculed by an eminent astrophysicist.
Actually, sacking an eminent laboratory was hardly a recommended extracurricular activity for one as reserved and cultured as Noriko.
A calf sauntered up behind the eminent historian and butted him, taking him unawares.
Moreover, many eminent scientists do not believe this context to be important.
It was a grand dinner attended by hundreds of Scotland's most eminent legal figures.
After years of rubber-stamping, courts are beginning to cut back on the use of eminent domain for private parties.
He mentions that he was an eminent sociologist and at best secondarily an economist.
Nevertheless, it is very prestigious, and is often awarded to eminent people in the sciences and arts.
We do not accept or proclaim any view merely because it comes from an eminent personality.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The inherent power of the state to take private property for public use is called the right of eminent domain.
Let me preface this description by emphasising the fact that he was eminent.
The law of eminent domain may be taken advantage of only by corporations which are engaged in serving the public.
The books are described as bound by the most eminent English and French binders.
An eminent example of magne-crystallic action adduced by plucker, and experimented on by Faraday, was Iceland spar.
Both are mentioned by palomino among the eminent artists who painted in the court of Spain.
He found that the eminent of the Magi usurped the sovereignty after the death of Cambyses.
The eminent entertainer extracted from the gibus a portmanteau, a soup-tureen, and a lady's watch.
Previous to being Mayor he had been an eminent personage as master of the guilds.
Serjeant Whitaker, one of the most eminent lawyers of his day, was an eccentric.
But the merits of a class are not best seen by the obtrusion of its more eminent members, but by the average.
Prince vied with prince, and eminent burgher with burgher, in buying books.
We might say that a 'young lady, eminent for great skill in lithology, famed as the discoverer,' etc.
This means, simply, that operators in nuclear power plants need not be eminent physicists or mathematicians.
The eminent criminal novel is taken as a tonic by minds satiated with the vapidity of fashionable fiction.
Later, it was raised to a more eminent dignity by conferring on it the title of logistic.
It was Billy who spoke, as his eyes first rested upon that eminent pinnacle of academe.
The eminent naturalist we have named calls the whole organ the mastax, and states that it is composed of dense muscular fibre.
Carme, one of the greatest of French cooks, became eminent by inventing a sauce for fast-days.
But this adoption of unexamined rules, and this plodding on in a beaten track, will never lead to any thing great or eminent.
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