Any such moment of relaxed vigilance as he himself had seized to overthrow the preëminence of others would be used to overthrow his own.
Since he had lost in dozens and scores of millions and could return to his preëminence only by mighty leaps, he plunged again in dozens and scores of millions, as befitted a mighty gambler.
Zeus, as head of the pantheon, naturally took a distinguished place as patron of oracles; and Apollo's relation to music and inspiration may account in part for the preëminence of his oracular shrine.
The clearest example of the orderly advance of a deity to preëminence is afforded by the Hebrew Yahweh (Jehovah).
Florence reached the height of its preëminence as an art center during the reign of Lorenzo the Magnificent, who was an ardent patron of all the arts.
Peter enjoyed a certain preëminence among the other apostles and was singled out by Christ upon several occasions.
In the earliest accounts which we have of the Germans there appear to have been certain families who enjoyed a recognized preëminence over their companions.
Canterbury has always maintained its early preëminence and may still be considered the religious capital of England.
It has a preëminence which has been generally conceded, and even elaborately endorsed, by most observers qualified to pass opinion hereon.
A reflection of their preëminence in this respect is naturally enough visible in French Flanders.
We claim for our country preëminence in education.
In the development of petroleum Mr. Bissell was a leading pioneer; perhaps he justly deserves the preëminence in this great work.
Without any apparent effort he maintained his preëminence through his entire college course, not only in the Languages, but also in Mathematics and Mental Philosophy.
It pervaded all his instructions, and imparted to science and to letters their just preëminence among the objects of human pursuit.
London, especially, now made good its position as one of the great cities of Europe, and that preëminence among English towns which it has never since lost.
Secondly, from a somewhat broader point of view, it was declared that if such laws were adopted England would no longer be able to compete with other countries and would lose her preëminence in manufactures.
The same story of early but short lived preëminence comes from other Aegean islands.
In a few decades the maritime preëminence of the Iberian Peninsula began to yield to the competition of the Dutch and English, who were, so to speak, saturated with their own maritime environment.
It gave sudden though temporary preëminence to Spain and Portugal, a new lease of life to little Holland, and ominous importance to Russia.
Bactria had, from a remote antiquity, claims to preëminence among the Aryan nations.
In less than a century Constantinople disputed with Rome itself the preëminence of riches and numbers.
Despite all the stress we are to-day taught to place on change, growth, evolution, are there qualities in these plays which insure them a continued preëminence in literature?
Macready for forty years maintained the great traditions of English acting, and during his managements of Drury Lane sought to retain for Shakespeare's plays their preëminence on the stage.
Persons who enjoy social preëminence operate suggestion all the time, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
Pretty women attracted admiration, which was dangerous, as all prosperity, glory, and preëminence were dangerous under that notion.
Mr. Brock owed his preëminence in his trade to one outstanding faculty--he was an honest man who could think like a thief.
By his twisted code of ethics and unmorals, though, the dubious preëminence he enjoyed was ample reward.
It is mortifying to the real friends of the President that his fame and his influence should have anything to apprehend from the success of liberty in another country, since he owes his preëminence to the success of it in his own.
If it ever occurred to him in his secret soul that at the period of his preëminence he had done anything to arrest that prosperity, he gave no sign.
But the victory of Mantineia silenced all such disparaging criticism, and replaced Sparta in her old position of military preëminence before the eyes of Greece.
It seems as if the preëminence of regicide was acknowledged,--and that kings tacitly ranked themselves below their sacrilegious murderers, as natural magistrates and judges over them.
It is the concern of mankind, that the destruction of order should not, be a claim to rank, that crimes should not be the only title to preëminence and honor.
He was given a tomb in the chancel of the parish church, not because of his preëminence in literature, but because of his interest in the affairs of a country village.
Give some reasons for the preëminence of the Elizabethan drama.
The Romanists meet it by exalting and giving preëminence to the Virgin Mother.
One writer has recently claimed that the Christian of India manifests little, if any, preëminence over the Hindu, in this respect.
If their results have not been statistically impressive, so far as converts are concerned, they have had preëminence in the task of transforming the thought and of leavening the institutions of the land.
Missions and individual missionaries should enter more fully into this work; none needs increasing emphasis more than this; and none has larger hopes of preëminence in the great work of India’s redemption.
In Western India, also, America stands first in the acknowledged power and preëminence of one of its missions.
He had subdued the body by the rigours of asceticism and had attained preëminence in self-restraint and in the highest wisdom of yoga culture.
Under this arrangement of a small differential in favor of the Gulf, New York, as the chart shows, has once more resumed its preëminence as compared with the rest of the country.
Cincinnati retained its preëminence until after the Civil War; but by 1880 had dropped to a low third in rank, only half the size of Chicago and two-thirds the size of St. Louis.
We took the steamer down the lake, though, cold as it was, for we had no idea of missing entirely the magnificent scenery which gives this body of water easy preëminence among the Swiss lakes.
It will if the religion to which the Anglo-Saxon owes his preëminence remains preëminent in his civilization.
The Preëminence of Scotland in Theology, Philosophy, and Medicine has long been recognized the world over.
He was about to crown himself with a diadem of knowledge which would give him a conscious preëminence above every individual of his species who then lived or who had lived in the generations that are passed away.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "minence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
