prominent position

collocation in English

meaningsofprominentandposition

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prominent
adjective
uk
/ˈprɒm.ɪ.nənt/us
/ˈprɑː.mə.nənt/
very well known ...
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position
noun
uk
/pəˈzɪʃ.ən/us
/pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
the place where something or someone is, often in relation to ...
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(Definition ofprominentandpositionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprominent position

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Perhaps it should be raised to a moreprominentposition.
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Moreover, such aprominentpositionfor an abstract figure like a genius seems unconventional.
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The mostprominentpositionin the 1950s was that which stressed 'laissez-faire' economics.
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Secondly, older people's perspectives have been promoted to aprominentposition.
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Second, note how the success of referential intent has taken aprominentpositionin this chapter.
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In recent years visual material has acquired a moreprominentpositionin the historiography of the urban environment.
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Nonetheless, these local understandings, we could hesitantly term them parochial traditions, are seldom given such aprominentpositionby historians.
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It preoccupied the mouths and pens of the town's inhabitants, and occupied aprominentpositionin the town's public sphere.
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It was in a veryprominentposition.
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Because he is a leader, or holds aprominentposition.
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His recording label was not a large enterprise, but it held aprominentpositionin the urban folk revival environment of the 1950s and 1960s.
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This notion retains its power, and deserves aprominentpositionamong the major frames of reference to guide developmental science in the next century.
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Additionally, the topicality score is adjusted for those sentences that occur in aprominentposition where important sentences are expected, following the position method.
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In addition, only thirty-six per cent of their sample of larger farmers did not hold some 'prominentpositionof responsibility in local affairs'.
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The probabilistic approaches learn that persistency of a main topic term in combination with aprominentpositionin the sentence is an important cue for the topicality.
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Our results raise questions about aprominentpositionin the literature, according to which premise-based voting is superior to conclusionbased voting from a deliberative democracy perspective.
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The seriousness of the issue demands that we give it aprominentpositionon the agenda.
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Despite itsprominentposition, it has not been sheltered from competition.
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The issue of nuclear energy has once again taken aprominentposition.
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All such regulations will be posted in aprominentpositionon the aerodrome.
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Full acknowledgment is required to be put in aprominentposition.
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To begin with, this glen is not in a veryprominentposition.
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It has always held a veryprominentpositionin business, in commerce and in politics.
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I beg to move, in page 8, line 8, to leave out "in aprominentposition".
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Mountainous areas were given an especiallyprominentpositionwithin that framework.
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