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prominent English

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prominent

Something that is prominent sticks out and is easily seen. The most prominent feature of the garden was the large fountain in the center of the pond. He was a tall man with long black hair and a prominent nose. A person who is prominent is one who is important and famous. He was described as being one of Canada's prominent writers.

prominent

(= outstanding, salient, spectacular, striking) having a quality that thrusts itself into attention an outstanding fact of our time is that nations poisoned by anti semitism proved less fortunate in regard to their own freedom a new theory is the most prominent feature of the book salient traits a spectacular rise in prices a striking thing about Picadilly Circus is the statue of Eros in the center a striking resemblance between parent and child (= big, large) conspicuous in position or importance a big figure in the movement big man on campus he's very large in financial circles a prominent citizen

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Simple sentences

The prominent poet attempted to commit suicide in his study.
The prominent psychologist resembles my uncle in appearance.
High fever is a prominent symptom of this disease.
The repeated triplets are the most prominent motif in that movement of the symphony.
Ophiuchus is an outspread but not very prominent constellation.
The Serpent Bearer is an outspread but not very prominent constellation.
Some prominent tennis players behave like spoiled brats.

Movie subtitles

You shall accept prominent people.
I said I shall not choose the better-looking one but the one who was more prominent in battle.
Sullivan evidently returned directly to his boyhood haunt following his release and was here a few days before he kidnapped James Frazier, the prominent attorney and playboy.
Know any prominent people?
Another prominent character.
I'm a prominent citizen, widely respected.
I wasn't as prominent as you are.
The eye sockets are too wide apart and the forehead's too prominent for this face.
I have here a list of prominent Druze sympathisers.
So that all might see and agree, the laws of Animal Farm where inscribed in a prominent place to be remembered and obeyed forever.
The other day someone told me an interesting story about a prominent couple who lost everything.
A prominent hostess here.
They dig up scandal about prominent people and spread it among columnists.
A great man and a prominent scientist.
Hey, fellas! Hey, fellas! See any prominent people?
There's a lot of prominent people here.
Challing is a prominent man.
Sullivan evidently returned directly to his boyhood haunt.. followinghisreleaseand was here a few days.. beforehekidnappedJamesFrazier, the prominent attorney and playboy.
They're prominent in this county, the Cottons.
Incidentally, you may have noticed that all through the ages, prominent men have prominent noses. Shh.
One of our prominent citizens.
I had a somewhat more prominent place in mind.
Very early on, he decided that he would have the priest have a more direct connection with the murder and that it was done to eliminate a blackmailer who knew about an affair he had had with the wife of a prominent politician.
Davidson decides to risk a lot of money. Lubitsch hires prominent young Berlin actors such as Emil Jannings and Harry Liedke with a rate of up to 35 marks per day.
Rich, prominent people with real social positions.
He's a lawyer, one of the most prominent in the city.
Professor Topaze. This is my friend, Henri de Fairville. He's a very prominent politician.
McADOO: No. The eye sockets are too wide apart and the forehead's too prominent for this face.
Missus Birling, you are a member, a very prominent member of the. Blumley women's charity organization, aren't you?
Tell me, was it due to your influence as the most prominent member of the committee - that help was refused this girl?
With her, the most unworldly husband would automatically take a prominent position in society, don't you think so?
Er, this is Miss Hawthorne, a prominent local resident who's very much opposed to Professor Horner's dig.
He's still a prominent person!
He's a prominent professor, a paleobotanist.
If 800 years ago a big asteroid hit the moon the crater should be prominent today still surrounded by bright rays thin streamers of dust spewed out by the impact.
Prominent here are two dark lines in the violet due to calcium in the atmospheres of the hundreds of billions of stars that constitute this galaxy.
But there are prominent people coming!

News and current affairs

For a short while, many prominent people - Albert Einstein, for one - believed that only a world government would be able to ensure global peace.
Doctors are on strike, taxes are on the rise, the parties in government are mauling each other, and Chancellor Angela Merkel herself proclaimed in a prominent speech that the country is in disastrous shape.
Of course, there is a prominent example of just that: Kofi Annan, under whose stewardship the UN has undergone a remarkable improvement.
LONDON - Earlier this week, a group of almost 100 prominent Europeans delivered an open letter to the leaders of all 17 eurozone countries.
As for currency collapse, the most prominent candidate has to be the euro.
And even as the Fund opposed them, prominent economists - among them Paul Krugman - endorsed their use.
Roberto Calderoli, a prominent official in Lega Nord, the third-largest government party, provoked riots in Libya by wearing a t-shirt printed with the infamous cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.
Some prominent policymakers and analysts, however, argue that oversight aimed at identifying and stemming systemic risk is futile.
In Accra, a trendy street club named Strawberries is well known as a hangout for gays, and there are a few prominent, if still discreet, clubs where homosexual men and women gather.
Here the EU can also play a prominent role by recognizing Russia's special interest in proper pipeline maintenance and a proper accounting for the gas they carry.
But governments can counter it in several ways: local language warnings with a prominent tax stamp on cigarette packs are one example.
The military's incorporation into the state was most prominent in the Ottoman Empire, whose rulers created a new type of military force that drew its manpower mostly from Islamic-ruled parts of Europe.
Peggy Battin, the most prominent American bioethicist working on assisted dying and euthanasia, also took the stand.
This perspective has been prominent among Keynesian economists in the United States and the United Kingdom since 2008.
Yet that is exactly what US officials, together with many prominent economists, believe America needs.
One important change was the release of hundreds of political prisoners, including the regime's most prominent opponent, Aung San Suu Kyi, who had been under house arrest for nearly 15 years.
Saad Eddin Ibrahim is Egypt's most prominent social scientist--and the most independent-minded in a conformist society ruled by President Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian regime.
Jolie is prominent, but she is hardly alone.
In an uncertain age, whoever defines us first, whether a politician, an artist, or an intellectual, will merit a prominent place in our history.
Moreover, American journalists know perfectly well that they, too, traffic in classified material constantly - indeed, many prominent US reporters have built lucrative careers doing exactly what Assange is doing.
The prominent climate economist Professor Richard Tol of Hamburg University has analyzed the benefits and costs of cutting carbon now versus cutting it in the future.
But Bush was not among them; nor was Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin Powell, or any other prominent member of the US cabinet.
If so, what was their purpose in letting him use so conspicuous a hiding place practically next door to a prominent military installation?
This moral deterioration is most prominent in the behavior of today's accused, who are much more impudent and aggressive than in the past.
One prominent argument lately has been that what is needed most is Keynesian economic stimulus - for example, deficit spending.
South Korea - the seventh-largest trading country in the world, and one of the most prominent economic success stories of the last 50 years - is at risk of such a bleak future as a result, first and foremost, of demographics.

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