eminence

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his top executives first tried to hand the problem to the company’s blue-ribbon Oversight Board of outside eminences, but last month the board handed it back.

From Washington Post

Harlem Renaissance eminence Alain Locke described the acoustic aspect of a Robinson performance as “an almost symphonic composition of sounds.”

From Washington Post

The board, which includes eminences of American politics, sports and business in addition to the university leaders, probably has plenty of explanations for striking a new deal with Emmert.

From New York Times

For two decades, as China climbed, step by step, toward global eminence, Washington's inside-the-Beltway power elite was blinded by its overarching dreams of eternal military omnipotence.

From Salon

Hundreds of students have quickly mobilized to support Dr. West’s bid for tenure, saying that a scholar of his eminence and reputation hardly needs to prove himself all over again.

From New York Times