This spirit explains the success of the Carnegie Company in outdistancing all its competitors and gaining a worldwide preeminence for the Pittsburgh district.
(2) The scientific outlook is a unique feature of post-Renaissance European society that has contributed heavily to its modern technological preeminence.
Truman could understand Soviet preeminence in a country such as Poland, but neither he nor his administration could accept the total dominance that Stalin imposed on other countries in Central Europe.
Starting with an engineering job in Australia, followed by another in China, and then by a partnership in the London firm of Bewick, Moreing and Company, Hoover rose to preeminence in his field.
胡佛从澳大利亚的一份工程工作开始,然后在中国工作,然后在伦敦的 Bewick, Moreing and Company 公司担任合伙人,胡佛在他的领域取得了卓越的成就。
He derided Douglas's pious homily on the court's preeminence, pointing out that Douglas himself had defied the court's ruling on the Bank of the United States by applauding President Jackson's refusal to abide by its decision.
The decision of China's leaders, when that was the most advanced nation in the world, to seal off their country from the rest of the world, forfeited China's preeminence in the centuries that followed.