| Rather than being written out of society, they were given prestigious positions in temples, at court or in wealthy households. |
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| There is the famous instance of Chivas Regal Scotch whisky losing sales when it cut prices, thereby reducing its status as a prestigious gift. |
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| Despite all dancers wearing ballet shoes, and the show coming from the prestigious Northern Ballet Theatre, classical ballet it is not. |
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| The elements bow to no man or woman, as ballgirls preparing for one of the UK's most prestigious tennis championships found to their cost. |
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| For a prestigious seat of learning to be acting in such a reckless manner is inexcusable. |
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| It has established prestigious five year fellowships for outstanding laboratory investigators, particularly in hearing and olfaction. |
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| This may say something about which journalists are singled out for promotion to the prestigious position of columnist. |
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| The heifer beat off stiff competition from nine other heifers and eighteen bulls to win the prestigious award. |
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| Defeating both of these strongmen garnered Sandow a contract to perform in London at the prestigious Alhambra Music Hall. |
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| An Ilkley firm has won a major contract to design the interior of a prestigious new museum. |
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| Each School is invited to field two seven-a-side teams with two subs for the prestigious event. |
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| A south Lakeland property developer has secured a prestigious award after earning glowing praise from its customers. |
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| It is the first time ever that the winner of this prestigious race was trained in the Kingdom. |
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| By October, a media agency had won a prestigious Australian media award for this innovative concept. |
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| Behind closed doors the council's highways team has been working with the prestigious car maker to help develop the supercars of tomorrow. |
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| The Challenge is a prestigious yacht race, westerly circumnavigating the world against the prevailing winds and tides. |
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| She is as famous and prestigious as her father, and very esteemed with her warm and sympathetic personality. |
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| In cases like terlet, this produces a form which is not only hypercorrect, but also in fact non-existent in the more prestigious form of speech. |
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| In more prestigious varieties of Spanish, the clitic and object noun phrase are in complementary distribution. |
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| This eight-floor entertainment complex, which opened last October, holds 2500 people at a prestigious address in the heart of clubland London. |
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| The students have picked up a clutch of medals at the prestigious Chelsea Flower Show. |
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| I had a gig playing piano on New Year's Eve at the cocktail lounge of the most prestigious resort hotel in town. |
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| We have a great opportunity to create one of the most prestigious and distinctive co-educational day schools in the country. |
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| Presumably this review is the most favourable, in a prestigious journal, that the publisher could find. |
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| Fix, the product of this prestigious commission, will be performed at New Moves, the Glasgow-based international choreography festival. |
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| He was born in east London and was educated at the fee-paying Forest School and the prestigious London School of Economics. |
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| The Indy 500 is one of the most prestigious races that everybody would like to be fortunate to win. |
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| A prestigious publication more easily establishes the value of the idea and concretely illustrates the project's practicality. |
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| An independent nuclear deterrent, the Force de Frappe, was a prestigious symbol of this new policy. |
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| Although her signature dulce voice was revered by all parang aficionados, she never won the prestigious title. |
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| Findlay is more interested in local weekly papers than prestigious regionals such as the Post. |
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| It will be broadcast in the prestigious Masterpiece Theatre slot from Sunday. |
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| Televised music usually consisted of a studio concert or a relay of a prestigious public concert. |
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| The house itself is located in one of the most prestigious housing estates in the county. |
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| Then in October 2001, de Cartier landed the position of creative director at a prestigious music publishing company. |
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| We hope that this will be the first of many such prestigious awards for this fine young athlete. |
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| This was the first time the prestigious event has ever been held in Northern Ireland. |
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| Having the finals weekend was a prestigious event to host and people responded to it. |
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| Of all the tournaments in which the Scots will bid for glory this year, this may be the least prestigious. |
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| This year the proceeds from the prestigious event will go to the West of Ireland Alzheimer Foundation. |
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| The world's leading cyclists will come to Newport on 21 August for the eighth leg of the prestigious competition. |
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| It is regarded by many as the most prestigious fell hound show there is, with classes for beagles, harriers, Jack Russell's and terriers. |
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| A flagship environmental centre has swept the boards in a prestigious contest to find the best building designs in Doncaster. |
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| This prestigious prize paid immediate dividends, ranking him among the elite. |
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| Last month, he received a very prestigious oration by the All India Rhinology Society of India. |
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| They like to shop for all but daily necessities at prestigious department stores in downtown shopping districts. |
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| It is the view of many that prestigious galleries should be in high profile city centre establishments. |
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| A lengthy fax appeared to have just arrived from a prestigious international conservation foundation. |
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| Two brave bobbies have been honoured for their courage at a prestigious award ceremony in London. |
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| Two big names in music may be in line for the most prestigious prize on the planet. |
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| She signed up for four movies under prestigious banners, even before a single release! |
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| They are the most famous golf links in the world and the venue for this year's prestigious Open Championship. |
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| The success of these schools can be attributed to the prestigious status accorded to Spanish. |
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| Just a few short months ago I was thrilled to be awarded a column in a prestigious newspaper. |
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| The report from a prestigious international agency is another valuable propaganda tool. |
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| Having beaten the Aussies once, Britain are confident they can complete a prestigious double tonight. |
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| This is a disgraceful, shameful attack on a student's freedom of speech at such a prestigious institution. |
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| Nevertheless, it is very prestigious, and is often awarded to eminent people in the sciences and arts. |
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| Posh residential complexes make the area a prestigious locale, an address one would be proud to possess. |
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| It also plans to exhibit the poster at various other prestigious places in the country. |
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| A young Cumbrian author has made it onto the longlist for one of the literary world's most prestigious prizes. |
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| We should be proud that our public servants are favourites for several prestigious awards this year. |
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| No one was interested in going to a school with a serial killer on the loose, no matter how prestigious it was. |
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| The prestigious title put the Lismore event at the top of the list of over 80 pro-ams held through the course of the year. |
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| I wish him the very best of luck as he takes up one of the most prestigious positions in Irish sport. |
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| Ah, but this time she'd enter the most prestigious shop, the salesgirl would be attentive, and she'd find just the most perfect dress. |
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| Dog groomers from Keighley had reason to smile when they scooped two first prizes at a prestigious event. |
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| Brides and grooms from all over North and East Yorkshire vied to win a prestigious competition launched to mark a city florist's centenary. |
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| His parents have relocated to Los Angeles from back east, where Morgan got into some kind of trouble at his prestigious prep school. |
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| Three entrants will be short listed to go forward to the Finals, which will be announced at a prestigious awards ceremony. |
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| This prestigious annual awards ceremony was attended by a dazzling array of celebrities, socialites and restaurant owners. |
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| The study identified limited access to prestigious institutions in India as an important push factor. |
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| It was a good week for gongs as another prestigious awards ceremony also took place. |
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| A mother is so grateful to the nurse who cares for her daughter that she has nominated her to receive a prestigious award. |
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| She received training in classical ballet at the prestigious academy and is also an exponent of modern, jazz and folkloric dancing. |
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| Harvard is one of the prestigious schools in the U.S. and all around the world. |
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| The Motor Sports Association has invited tenders from promoters interested in hosting the prestigious race from next season. |
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| It has scooped more accolades at a prestigious national awards ceremony for the regional newspaper industry. |
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| The last thing Bradford needs is a bargain-basement store in such prestigious premises. |
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| The prestigious office building project, set among riverside promenades and a public plaza, is earmarked for Northern Foods. |
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| Marenghi won the Perrier Comedy Award, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival's most prestigious prize. |
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| The event may have seen changes in its history, but the prestigious trophy is still as sought after as ever. |
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| Lindsay started her career at the age of three when she was signed by a prestigious model agency. |
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| In fact, in the context of American journalism, they are seen as using a formal, conservative, and prestigious style. |
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| This week her work was recognised when she was awarded the prestigious medal of the Order of Mercy from the League of Mercy. |
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| At the time, he was enrolled in the law department of the prestigious University of Tokyo. |
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| Boston is home to one of the most prestigious regattas that North America has to offer. |
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| For some it was a massive publicity coup for the county town to host such a prestigious event. |
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| Besides having faulty laws and courts, governments block debt workouts by forgiving debts of companies deemed too big or prestigious to fail. |
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| Recently, in a presentation to a large audience of mostly young researchers at a prestigious university, I outlined the crisis in peer review. |
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| This was the topic of a recent seminar at the prestigious Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. |
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| Previous winners of the prestigious prize include Scots writers Christopher Brookmyre, Ian Rankin and Denise Mina. |
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| A dumping ground for rubbish has been transformed into a prestigious new beach hut site. |
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| The future is looking bright for the talented craftswoman who recently exhibited at the prestigious ceramics event. |
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| The prestigious location together with the guaranteed rental income clinched it. |
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| A radio drama series written, set and recorded in Nigeria has won two prestigious awards. |
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| This pilot led to a full radio series, which quickly won a prestigious Sony Award. |
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| His absence from the most prestigious festival in the film industry calendar was guaranteed to get the tongues wagging. |
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| The group also acquired two prestigious watering holes among a dozen pubs and hotels earlier this year. |
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| These are both very prestigious honours bestowed upon someone who had never even seen pole vault five years ago. |
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| Thousands swarmed to Badminton last weekend to watch the prestigious three-day horse trials. |
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| In 1883, Hulke became the recipient of a prestigious national prize for his herd of Jerseys milkers, made up of Jenny and her calves. |
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| Two of the most prestigious silk cloths are also woven on looms fitted with a flying shuttle. |
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| Maria supported him in London working as a couturier, sought after by prestigious fashion houses. |
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| Already, legal tussles have overshadowed the prospects of a better future for this prestigious venture taken up by the Society. |
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| With his footballing background and business acumen, he seemed the ideal choice for this highly prestigious position. |
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| Set in the prestigious New York Ballet School, the film follows a group of eager young moppets who make the grade to get into the academy. |
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| Even as the two-time winner of the prestigious Booker Prize, Coetzee didn't show up for the honors. |
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| A governorship was a lucrative and prestigious position, but it was not a sinecure. |
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| The National Youth Orchestra has chosen the prestigious festival as one of the events to unveil its newly-established sinfonietta. |
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| Even more prestigious is a place on someone's blogroll, a permanent link to one's own site. |
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| London United, the Fulwell-based bus company, is just the ticket for passengers, decided the judges in a prestigious competition. |
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| Sounds prestigious, even if it's a friendly between teams who are not best known for over-exertion when there's no competitive oomph. |
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| The chairman of Castle Combe Circuit, Howard Strawford, has been presented with a prestigious award for his services to motor sport. |
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| They have already won many prestigious awards throughout the country, and have developed a large following. |
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| Students and staff at a Canvey school were jumping for joy after hearing they are to be presented with a prestigious sports award. |
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| Furthermore, they competed with local authorities from 31 counties for this prestigious award. |
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| Tuition at the more prestigious high schools, which are all boarding schools, is very expensive. |
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| It began its career as a prestigious civil transport and later became a multi-role military aircraft. |
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| One immigrant I know of holds postgraduate degrees from two prestigious British universities. |
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| I am slated to open an office in a prestigious location with a co-worker coming up in September. |
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| Many of those calls he says come from posh hotels and prestigious New York addresses dispelling the myth that bed bugs only reside in filth. |
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| A second trial will be held on January 14 whereafter a training squad will be chosen to prepare for this prestigious event. |
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| The rise of the prestigious but unpaid internship intersects perfectly with the rise of the boomeranger. |
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| In the past, winners of the prestigious prize have included such interesting items as unmade beds and pickled cows. |
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| During the process of creating and naming the award, several dozen namesakes were considered for this prestigious honor. |
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| This is the most prestigious competition for unpublished writers of children's books in Britain. |
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| He has also been chosen to be a member of several prestigious art associations in his native Austria. |
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| Roy has previously designed a range of prestigious sailing trophies and other nautical pieces. |
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| He held the prestigious position of kapellmeister to the emperors Maximilian II and Rudolf II in Vienna and Prague from 1568 until his death. |
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| While the more prestigious Villages Beaujolais survived the crisis with their reputations mostly unsullied, the Nouveau did not. |
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| Today many external symbols no longer correspond to social origins, and wealth does not always coincide with prestigious status. |
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| As a general rule, the more prestigious the private school, the more aggressively brainy the kids. |
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| A pair of teachers have won their way through to the national finals of a prestigious awards ceremony. |
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| And yet, in 1979, the man who loaned his prestigious name to this enormous katzenjammer denounced the parapsychologists for being weird. |
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| Other, less prestigious ennobling offices required two generations to serve in office before conferring transmissible nobility. |
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| Perhaps the most venerable and prestigious general scientific journal in the world is Nature. |
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| Some of its more prestigious venues have included a manor house in Castle Combe. |
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| Teachers from two York schools have been nominated for prestigious teaching awards which will be announced at a ceremony next week. |
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| A courageous young woman from the Selby area has been nominated for a prestigious award for her work as a young carer. |
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| The latter were suspicious at first, but eventually, the mentor positions came to be seen as prestigious. |
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| Behind the ivied walls, the more intellectually prestigious schools are making some pernicious compromises. |
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| Most marriages are monogamous, although fraternal polyandry is permitted and is even considered to be prestigious. |
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| Young Jazz supremo Jamie Cullum's rise to stardom could be topped with a prestigious Brit award. |
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| Now in their fourth year, the Awards are widely regarded as the most prestigious and high-profile of their kind. |
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| Aged 12, she got a job as a stagehand at a New Hampshire repertory theatre and went on to study acting at the prestigious Julliard drama school. |
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| Virgil is accepted to the prestigious institute, where he's received coolly by the upperclassmen. |
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| Johnston saw off fierce competition from hopefuls from all over the country, including scullers from Henley, Headington and other prestigious rowing clubs and schools. |
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| The trials will be staged on the opening day of the Billabong Pro with the top two finishers receiving wildcards into the country's most prestigious surfing event. |
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| There is growing speculation that he will join a prestigious Scottish firm when he takes up a work experience placement in the City of London later this year. |
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| The Daily Beast attracts over 11 million unique visitors and was recently nominated for three prestigious digital ASME awards. |
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| She reportedly studied French and Italian at Oxford before attending the prestigious Jacques Lecoq school of theatre in Paris. |
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| The most prestigious traditional Bohemian glass decoration, Tiefschnit, or deep, intaglio carving, was also adopted by the artists of the avant-garde. |
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| Three children who have helped look after their wheelchair-bound mum have been honoured with a prestigious school prize in recognition of their hard work. |
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| York fencers are determined to recapture a prestigious title from Germany. |
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| An expanding range of methods allowed for splendid chromolithographed illustrations and hand-colored illustrations that were prestigious showcases for their companies. |
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| Although some winners were unable to attend due to prior engagements or ill-health, the vast majority of the past recipients of the prestigious award were at the dinner. |
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| Manchester has swept the board at a prestigious design awards, winning eight out of nine honours for stunning new buildings across the whole of the north west. |
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| The prestigious annual Horse Show, for which 117 horses have been entered, is to go ahead this weekend despite an outbreak of African horse sickness in parts of the province. |
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| In the real tour, 11 circuits of the Champs Elysees are expected to climax in a mass sprint for what has become one of the most prestigious victories in professional cycling. |
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| An editorial in the May 28 issue of the prestigious British Medical Journal calls for banning the sale of kitchen knives, in order to reduce fatal stabbings. |
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| This is why Taiwan is staking a claim by moving to a higher end product and allowing China to soak up the less prestigious and demanding pleasure boat business. |
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| The wealthier and more influential Sephardim spoke Italian and Ladino, while the Yiddish of the Ashkenazim had to compete with the more prestigious English. |
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| British solo yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur yesterday claimed a record-breaking victory in the Route du Rhum, one of the world's most prestigious transatlantic races. |
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| The film had its premiere at the prestigious Sundance Fest in Utah in January, where it played to solid reviews and strong interest from distributors. |
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| It seemed that another prestigious name was set to become part of history. |
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| His victories include 21 English and Irish Classics as well as many prestigious races overseas such as the Breeders' Cup Turf and the Dubai World Cup. |
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| So if she beats out the Second City people and wins the prestigious award, will this Dollard girl leave our fair city for the seemingly greener pastures of L.A. or Toronto? |
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| She received numerous prestigious humanitarian and freedom-of-thought awards, and she was adopted as a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International. |
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| An Orkney farmer scooped one of the prizes at the prestigious Black Beauty Bonanza show of Aberdeen-Angus calves and yearlings, in Aberdeenshire, on Saturday. |
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| In dynastic China, the most prestigious career was government service. |
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| It's not as prestigious as setting a record for batting average or home runs, but he says he would take pride in it because it's another way to get on base. |
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| Her method acting is based on the technique of Sanford Meisner who developed it when he was head of the prestigious Neighborhood Playhouse School of Acting in New York. |
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| My key predictions of the top quark mass and the Higgs boson mass even appeared in the pages of Nature, the most prestigious refereed science journal in the world. |
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| The magic of the original isn't dulled in this carefully abridged volume of the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which was nominated for the prestigious Kate Greenaway award. |
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| Drivers can be assured that the build quality is going to be second to none and the badge is just as prestigious as anything to come out of Germany. |
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| Four top-line car manufacturers are lining up to claim this year's DTM championship, recognised by many as the most prestigious touring car championship in the world. |
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| Aware that a prestigious career in the civil service was now closed to him, Hong experienced searing visions for the next 40 days. |
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| Joan used words like hip, classy, elegant, and prestigious to describe the clubs. |
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| Verveer is headed for a prestigious think-tank spot, but she coyly provided no details. |
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| His work found immediate and continued international success in prestigious festivals, symposia, broadcasts, biennials, museums and gallery exhibitions. |
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| This is a droll drama revolving around a junior financial adviser who finally gets his big break when he is assigned to the prestigious portfolio of a very wealthy client. |
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| Amherst College, one of the most prestigious and selective colleges in the country, ended interviews almost 20 years ago. |
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| The cristina Yang we met ten years ago would have had no problem leaving to run a prestigious hospital in Zurich. |
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| The captain of the trireme, the trierarch, was not a specialist, but a wealthy citizen who had volunteered or been appointed to take up this prestigious position. |
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| Three winners from this competition will be awarded trophies and prizes at the prestigious National Animal Awards in New Delhi in February next year. |
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| CrowdMed is also a system where Ivy League diplomas and prestigious residencies carry no clout. |
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| He is set to take on the most prestigious daily newspaper job in Scotland. |
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| As a result, MONUC was criticised by numerous prestigious human rights organizations. |
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| I went to a fairly prestigious Midwestern university, and I entered the program with a cohort of 14 first-year grad students. |
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| My list of famous and prestigious clients numbers into the many hundreds. |
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| At the age of twenty, I blew my only chance to win the prestigious Golden Gloves tournament and I didn't have the luxury of someone else to blame. |
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| By contrast Italian churches had tended to confine tomb monuments to the peripheries, with the wall tomb the most prestigious form of church burial. |
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| There are barbershop sign painters in western Africa with no less ability than graduates of the most prestigious design programs in North America. |
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| Vienna's polite coffee house society is in open revolt over plans to turn one of the city's most prestigious cafes into an Italian-style coffee bar. |
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| The Bistro serves continental fusion cuisine and recently scooped three prestigious food awards in two separate competitions run by the Panel of Chefs of Ireland. |
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| The judges for the prestigious competition, now in its eighteenth year, also hailed the family's dairy operation as near perfection as you could ever get. |
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| For generations of journalists, covering the statehouse has been a prestigious beat. |
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| A coming-of-age romance set during the First World War and its aftermath, it garnered favourable reviews and won the prestigious John Llewelyn Prize. |
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| Natalia burst onto the international scene in 1979, winning a pair of golds at the Junior Friendship Tour and competing in a number of prestigious invitationals. |
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| Had it not been for Victoria's coup de foudre or instant infatuation, she probably would have married someone with a more prestigious or powerful background. |
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| One of the most prestigious events in the equestrian calendar has become the latest fixture to fall victim to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. |
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| The millions turned to billions as the technology firm became a member of the prestigious FTSE 100, the ultimate accolade in the business community. |
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| Record-breaking runner Paula Radcliffe has been awarded the prestigious Women of the Year Outstanding Achievement Award, capping a memorable weekend for her. |
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| Both learning Latin and using its extension into a vernacular are often associated with prestigious systems of education, such as Latinity in the public schools of England. |
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| Ivories representing religious themes or commemorating individuals, especially imperial figures, were one high-cost, highly prestigious form of art. |
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| In 1994, this beer was awarded a platinum medal at the World Beer Championships, making it one of only two Canadian beers to ever receive this prestigious award. |
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| Third-placed Grewal is even more pleasantly surprised to be in the running for the prestigious event, unaccustomed as he is to being near the top of big tournaments. |
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| Pioneer rewrote the record books by becoming the first girls' team in Michigan's illustrious swimming history to win the prestigious national title. |
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| First, in relation to identifying the appropriate comparators, it could argue that the standard could be fixed by looking at a less prestigious hospital. |
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| This is the first year that the prestigious awards ceremony has included an award of this type and they are collectively and understandably delighted. |
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| Amateurs and professionals will be striving to gain this prestigious crown that unites the game's elite and grassroots players with giant-killing on everyone's mind. |
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| To win his first Slam at Wimbledon, the most prestigious one, the most traditional one, the oldest one, is something that I don't think even he could have imagined. |
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| He practices his speech on moral fibre that should land him a scholarship to a prestigious university, while darting envious glances at his partying schoolmates. |
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| From her first day of grade school to her entrance into a prestigious finishing school, her educational tale is one of precocity and academic recognition. |
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| Political interventions and more prestigious research areas seem to have contributed to a prolonged downturn in antimicrobial research after the second world war. |
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| There will be fierce competition among the top seeds over two tough days of rallying to decide the outcome of this most prestigious of motorsport events. |
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| His photography has won more than a hundred awards, including the prestigious Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography. |
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| Beck later went on to receive a Ph.D. in organizational Behavior at Harvard, and teach at a number of prestigious universities. |
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| Immediately before the second world war the prestigious forerunners of Britain's present day teaching hospitals were financed by charitable contributions. |
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| After appearing in several plays, Chastain was accepted into the prestigious Juilliard School in order to fine-tune her craft. |
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| A BEAUTY salon in the North East has won two prizes in a prestigious competition. |
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| The prestigious building project is budgeted in great detail, from warf facilities to the protocollary opening. |
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| Suppose that Professor Turk has won a prestigious grant and wants to impress his hearer with this fact, without saying flat out that he won it. |
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| Played in late June to early July, it is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, and widely considered the most prestigious. |
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| The ambitious young student hobnobbed with the faculty at the prestigious college he hoped to attend. |
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| Henry also invested heavily in the construction and renovation of prestigious new royal buildings. |
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| Becoming a rich businessman was not as prestigious as inheriting a title and owning a landed estate. |
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| Edward III was frail and in seclusion, his prestigious eldest son, Edward the Black Prince, terminally ill. |
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| As with the cars, new models are often exhibited by manufacturers at prestigious industry shows to gain new orders. |
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| Beads are also sometimes found in male burials, with large beads often associated with prestigious weapons. |
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| They are widely regarded as prestigious, and traditionally have produced most of France's scientists and executives. |
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| Instead, the Tripartite System came to be characterised by fierce competition for places at the prestigious grammar schools. |
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| Historically, many of the prestigious universities in the United States have been private, most notably the Ivy League. |
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| The LSE is often regarded as one of the world's most prestigious universities for the study of the social sciences. |
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| Royal households took essentially the same form as baronial households, although on a much larger scale and the positions were more prestigious. |
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| It is Britain's richest horse race, and the most prestigious of the five Classics. |
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| One of the most prestigious fireworks competition is the Montreal Fireworks Festival, an annual competition held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. |
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| At the same time, Jonson pursued a more prestigious career, writing masques for James's court. |
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| The small school had a liberal outlook and a progressive curriculum more modern than the larger, more prestigious schools. |
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| One of the largest and most prestigious English folk festivals at Cambridge was founded in 1965 and attracts about 10,000 people. |
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| At 19, he was signed to the prestigious Fred Karno company, which took him to America. |
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| Meanwhile, Sydney Chaplin had joined Fred Karno's prestigious comedy company in 1906 and, by 1908, he was one of their key performers. |
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| Junior tournaments do not offer prize money except for the Grand Slam tournaments, which are the most prestigious junior events. |
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| The four Grand Slam tournaments are considered to be the most prestigious tennis events in the world. |
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| Premier events for women form the most prestigious level of events on the Women's Tennis Association Tour after the Grand Slam tournaments. |
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| The most prestigious of these, after the world championship, is the UK Championship. |
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| The major championships are the four most prestigious men's tournaments of the year. |
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| The tour included dates at many prestigious theatres such as London's HMV Hammersmith Apollo. |
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| In 2011 they decided to give Schofield his Golden Boot and he is now included in the roll call of winners of the prestigious award. |
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| To date, 17 players have completed a Grand Slam, though only six in the most prestigious singles titles. |
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| The Champ de Mars is situated on a prestigious avenue in Port Louis, the capital city and is the oldest racecourse in the southern hemisphere. |
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| It is the largest and most prestigious event on the continent, with betting running into the hundreds of millions of Rands. |
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| It features eleven grade one races, culminating in the Cheltenham Gold Cup, the best and most prestigious Chase race in the world, on the Friday. |
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| Further prestigious races were added to the card during the 1920s, such as the Cheltenham Gold Cup and Champion Hurdle. |
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| The most prestigious are Grade 1, then Grade 2, Grade 3, Listed, Handicaps, to Bumpers the least prestigious. |
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| In 1959, Honda entered five motorcycles into the Isle of Man TT race, the most prestigious motorcycle race in the world. |
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| The Indian Civil Service was prestigious and paid well, but it remained politically neutral. |
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| His two younger brothers were sent there, and it is not clear why Isaac D'Israeli chose to send his eldest son to a much less prestigious school. |
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| John dismissed the tutor in November 1841 and, after considerable thought, sent James to the prestigious Edinburgh Academy. |
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| There is a perceived hierarchy among universities, with the Russell Group seen as being composed of the country's more prestigious universities. |
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| This time of rising status for biochemistry also saw increased acceptance of biochemistry papers in the prestigious multiscience journals. |
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| In 1958 MacLeish hired Thurman Arnold, a prestigious lawyer who ended up charging no fee, to file a motion to dismiss the 1945 indictment. |
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| Barbirolli refused invitations to take up more prestigious and lucrative conductorships. |
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| During his chief conductorship, prestigious foreign conductors and orchestras began to perform regularly at the Proms. |
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| In 2005 they represented the UK at prestigious international art exhibition, the Venice Biennale. |
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| The most prestigious tournament of Ireland is the Irish Open, which is held on courses in the four provinces. |
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| Some of the most prestigious races in the world, such as the Grand National or Melbourne Cup are run as handicaps. |
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| The most prestigious race is the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes run over the course in July. |
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| The Royal Enclosure is the most prestigious of the three enclosures, with recent visits from the Queen and Royal Family members. |
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| The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews is one of the oldest and most prestigious golf clubs in the world. |
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| Scotland joined the prestigious European Nations Cup tournament in 2003, now being regarded as the seventh best national nation. |
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| Many cups are played as annual events between two local rivals, of which the Lovat Cup between Lovat and Beauly is the most prestigious. |
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| Nevertheless, the army was considered the senior and more prestigious branch. |
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| The lowest ten miles of the Tay, including prestigious beats like Taymount or Islamouth, provides most of the cream of the Tay. |
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| Olympic football returned at the 1936 Summer Olympics, but was now overshadowed by the more prestigious World Cup. |
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| Adjoining onto the station concourse, it was one of Glasgow's most prestigious hotels in its heyday. |
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| The Big Pit National Coal Museum is located at Blaenavon, and in 2005 it won the prestigious Gulbenkian Prize for museum of the year. |
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| The Rome Masters, founded in 1930, is one of the most prestigious tennis tournaments in the world. |
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| Also, the fashion magazine Vogue Italia, is considered one of the most prestigious fashion magazines in the world. |
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| The excavations won 'Best Rescue Dig' of the year in the prestigious 2014 Current Archaeology awards. |
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| It is regarded as one of the most prestigious art schools in the Netherlands and the number 1 in Advertising and Copywriting. |
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| In 1909 the family moved to Paris, where his father had been offered a post at the prestigious scientific faculty of the University of Paris. |
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| Edward, Second Duke of York assisted the climb of foxes as more prestigious quarries in his The Master of Game. |
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| In medieval hunting, the red deer was the most prestigious quarry, especially the mature stag, which in England was called a hart. |
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| Since this was one of the city's prestigious confraternities, his acceptance suggests that he was already a respected member of the community. |
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| Henry appears to have chosen her because she was attractive and came from a prestigious noble line. |
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| Hendrix received several prestigious rock music awards during his lifetime and posthumously. |
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| Miles Franklin is the namesake of Australia's most prestigious literary prize, awarded annually to the best novel about Australian life. |
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| Recording began at De Lane Lea Studios and later moved to the prestigious Olympic Studios. |
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| The most prestigious resorts can be found along the Baltic coastline, including the islands of Rugia and Usedom. |
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| In 2007, the station won the prestigious Sony Award for Station Of The Year for stations with fewer than 300,000 listeners. |
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| A period of relative peace followed during the more prosperous and prestigious rule of Vasile Lupu. |
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| Despite its initial recklessness, the alliance was very prestigious for both families. |
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| His work influenced every subsequent author of history in China, including the prestigious Ban family of the Eastern Han Dynasty era. |
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| Rome is an important centre for music, and it has an intense musical scene, including several prestigious music conservatories and theatres. |
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| The institute is one of the most prestigious tourism schools in the country. |
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| The 24 Hours of Daytona is one of the world's most prestigious endurance auto races. |
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| These features also have made it attractive for boat builders, such as the prestigious Hinckley Yachts. |
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| It is one of the world's most prestigious film festivals and is part of the Venice Biennale. |
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