Prominence used in a sentence

Prominence in a sentence as a noun

They're more against fratboys that rose to prominence and wealth through connections. And finance.

Google rose to a prominence in an era of portal pages. Yahoo in particular had a home page without hundreds of links.

On the other at a certain level of authority and prominence, you just shouldn't have sex with someone you're working with. There's too much that can go wrong.

The prominence of the Top List is only a symptom of that. Suppose you were at at a new bookstore, and each table of books was in its own little room, each isolated from the next.

There have been too many screw-ups in the Bitcoin space and a hack at this level of prominence would be disastrous for the community.

They mostly have some common beliefs, and they all fly the same banner -- but when one group rises to prominence they will often start doing things under their own name. Some recent examples include LulzSec and Goatse Security.

I wonder if it's a widespread sentiment, or if others wouldn't know about the situation, or would be surprised by its prominence in my mind.

This is mostly due to the volume and prominence of C. But a language with the same fundamental semantics of C but lacking the cleverbait syntax and weakened types would have prevented over half of these mistakes.

> If you think an attorney able to rise to the position US Attorney will be caught in a "falsifiable claim" on a matter of this prominence then you simply do not understand what you are talking about. Some choice samples: Nixon: I'm not a crook.

Swartz's case gains publicity through his prominence. But similar oppression, often combined with a grinding and defining lack of opportunity, plays out thousands of times every day, on the streets and in the families of this country.

The article opens with the line "One visible sign of China's recent economic growth is the rise in prominence of inventors and entrepreneurs." , as if the photos that follow are in any way representative of invention in China.

In most of the treads you visit, do helpful, thoughtful comments seem to rise to a position of prominence, while mean or dumb comments gray out? In my observation, after 1345 days here, and rather active participation on Hacker News, the comments have improved both in the threads I post in and in the threads I only lurk in.

It's a delicate dance; completely ignore events that make the regime look bad and you'll lose credibility and readers, but give them too much prominence and you'll drive public support down rather than up. Oh, and just to make sure your incentives are aligned properly, the regime is holding your family hostage.

They are mostly best for "big name" items; also, the prominence of StackOverflow means that some computer technology queries still work pretty well. These days, I'm fortunate when I know specifically enough what I want that I can jump straight into Wikipedia and hopefully find an adequate page.

In most of the treads you visit, do helpful, thoughtful comments seem to rise to a position of prominence, while mean or dumb comments gray out? Remember, pg's claim is that recently HN has not been a place where there is an "easy way for readers to differentiate the noise," but rather a place where the noise has had an attached badge of being signal rather than noise.

I think it is unbecoming of an engineer or scientist, particularly of prominence, to voice such opinions without access to design data from the source. Before I could even begin to dare to voice opinion I would need to study CAD models, electrical and electronic diagrams and test data.

China will really rise to world prominence when its common people enjoy free and fair elections, a free press, and good educational opportunity all over the country, something I hope they experience sooner rather than later. Meanwhile, I'm actually more optimistic about India during my lifetime.

It will take time to understand these things, and to fix the problems that are getting in the way of progress, but there are always going to be enough smart and interested people in the world to sow the seeds of change, and while they may not rise to prominence in politics or business this year or next, in the Internet age there are other ways to get things done. We just haven't learned to get the right people to use them yet.

People too often focus on Hitler's 1936-39 rise to global prominence: what is often overlooked is the unabated role of the party's propaganda-machine from 1921 to 1932 to gain popular support and 1932 to ~1936 to brainwash the remaining populace.

This naturally leads to the SA producing ever higher and more complicated abstractions that the simian developer tries to implement, poorly, and the SA becomes an irreplaceable high priest -- inflating their salaries and prominence and depressing the salaries of the rest of the team. Where I work, every developer is expected to be "architect-quality".

My guess is that you agree with virtually everything in the article, and, instead of being pleased that someone has not only come around to your position in the most public fashion possible, but also apologized for previously disagreeing with you, you manage to be unhappy about the prominence of the piece. The impression you leave is that you'd be happier if he slunk off to hide somewhere like a petulant bridge troll.

I don't think ********* is all that high a share of those incarcerated for *****, but if you are using the prominence of the reason people get incarcerated rather than the prominence of the reason people are incarcerated as your standard, you aren't looking at the right issue.