He lost face.

He won eminence as a scientist.

Tom is an influential local criminal.

First accrue wealth, power, and prestige, then lose it.

This adds to their power, wealth, and prestige.

He was then quickly restored to his former prestige and reunited with his family.

That price is not necessarily a gain in prestige for the Kremlin.

He was also active in national and international politics.

This is often regarded as one of the more prestigious areas of the capital.

Sputnik wasn't a technical loss, but it was a prestige loss.

Tribal societies in which there are some limited instances of social rank and prestige.

Corbino, who also chaired the selection committee, hoped that the new chair would raise the standard and reputation of physics in Italy.

Less prestigious, but more popular with the working classes were puppeteers and magicians, as well as the circus, with its travelling companies of performers, including acrobats, trained animals, illusionists and other stunt oriented artists.

Garrincha was an ace with worldwide prestige, the best player ever, according to many opinions.

However, Italian as a language used in the Italian Peninsula has a longer history.

Education Guadalajara is an important nucleus of universities and educational centers with national prestige.

It was composed with the Paris Opéra in mind, a most prestigious venue.

This shows the prestige that the Town kept and the favour which all the time had.

The prestige of Rome was then challenged by the defections of the churches of Germany and England.

We may be at the top of the list when it comes to influencing access to personal wealth.

Now, you had a lot of power, and you got to beat people up you got a lot of prestige, a lot of respect.

It would also reclaim its own global prestige and potential for progress in other areas.

The dignity of Elector carried great prestige and was second only to King or Emperor.

This robbed the senatorial aristocracy of its prestige, and made it increasingly subservient to him.

Although the territory was financially burdensome, it was an ideological loss that damaged Mary's prestige.

During his 40 years in Europe, he wrote nineteen books and declined several prestigious academic positions.

But, if their prestige is in fact at stake, the perception of a threat becomes decisive.

In Portugal, however, he has been much overshadowed by his rival Vasco da Gama.

In the Nara period, Buddhist statues were made by the national government to boost its prestige.

Heracles attained the highest social prestige through his appointment as official ancestor of the Dorian kings.

However, the Senate, while stripped of most of its political power, was socially prestigious.

Others feared loss of property or prestige as Caesar carried out his land reforms in favor of the landless classes.

Every single year fewer electricians, fewer carpenters, fewer plumbers, fewer welders, fewer pipefitters, fewer steamfitters.

You remember the space race in the '60s was for national prestige, because we lost the first two milestones.

His father Niccolò, a merchant, traded with the Near East, becoming wealthy and achieving great prestige.

Symbol of prestige Platinum's rarity as a metal has caused advertisers to associate it with exclusivity and wealth.

The authors of that period were influenced by the works of contemporary French writers, whose language was prestigious.

Pol Pot received some training in China, which had enhanced his prestige when he returned to the WPK's liberated areas .

Having this in mind, little by little, one day at a time, I became less humble, less shy, less square, less fearful, less worried about other people's opinions, that sort of thing.

Less possessions, less boredom.

But there is less and less journalism, less reporting, fewer facts.

It is said that NBER working papers are even more prestigious than publication in refereed journals.

Tsar Theodore Svetoslav (reigned 1300 1322) restored Bulgarian prestige from 1300 onwards, but only temporarily.

To fulfill his duty, he conducted two crusades, and even though they were unsuccessful, they contributed to his prestige.

Its scenic qualities, hotels, shops, theatres and architecture turn it into an important tourist attraction of the city.