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He went on to an eminent career as a social anthropologist, but in 1946 he ceased to be a poet.
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.
Without eminent domain, acquiring enough property for a stadium could become expensive.
Five years ago, visiting cards of even eminent doctors did not contain an email address.
Out of self-interest, rich or eminent people who would curry popular favor to gain political office will dissemble their selfishness and pride.
These four participants will then be sent to Mumbai for training and will be groomed by eminent people in the film industry.
Nevertheless, attraction across void space seemed a mystery, and some of his eminent contemporaries were unwilling to accept his physics.
The name commemorates Glen Seaborg, the eminent American nuclear physicist and Nobel prizewinner.
Great Alardyce is indeed of the same generation as Carlyle, Harriet Martineau numbering as a member of both eminent men's circles.
Lloyd's article has plenty of history about eminent domain, and how private developers are increasingly using it to get a hold of land they want.
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.
Federal agencies would be granted the power of eminent domain to speed the building of more power transmission lines.
After years of rubber-stamping, courts are beginning to cut back on the use of eminent domain for private parties.
The eminent German meterologist and father of the concept of continental drift, had used prop-driven sleds on the Ice Cap in the middle 1930s.
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.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The law of eminent domain may be taken advantage of only by corporations which are engaged in serving the public.
Prince vied with prince, and eminent burgher with burgher, in buying books.
It was Billy who spoke, as his eyes first rested upon that eminent pinnacle of academe.
He found that the eminent of the Magi usurped the sovereignty after the death of Cambyses.
Both are mentioned by palomino among the eminent artists who painted in the court of Spain.
Many other eminent men have shared the same opinion, and not a few prominent leaders among the Afro-American people.
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.
I can mention but few of the names most eminent during this anatomic Period, and but a short account of the life and work of each.
Carme, one of the greatest of French cooks, became eminent by inventing a sauce for fast-days.
We might say that a 'young lady, eminent for great skill in lithology, famed as the discoverer,' etc.
But the merits of a class are not best seen by the obtrusion of its more eminent members, but by the average.
This means, simply, that operators in nuclear power plants need not be eminent physicists or mathematicians.
Later, it was raised to a more eminent dignity by conferring on it the title of logistic.
The cell theory was for some time combated by the most eminent German men of science.
The eminent naturalist we have named calls the whole organ the mastax, and states that it is composed of dense muscular fibre.
We dined this day at Terracina, heretofore the famous Anxur, which stands upon a very eminent promontory, the circean by name.
But this adoption of unexamined rules, and this plodding on in a beaten track, will never lead to any thing great or eminent.
A late eminent auctioneer, who was not shy of using it, tried to bring into vogue the variant form, uni Que.
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