1.   Kirton first achieved coaching prominence in London and, on his return to New Zealand, eventually took over the Wellington side.

2.   Only lately had experiments with iron sheathing been achieving prominence.

3.   Robinson spent the years of the civil war and Interregnum building up business interests and achieving prominence in City politics.

4.   Recently, however, he had been criticized by fellow Republicans as ineffective at a time when education was increasingly achieving national prominence as a key domestic issue.

5.   Although Seligson went on to achieve national prominence, his chaplaincy to soldiers in wartime was his touchstone.

6.   But perhaps not since the various infusions of African influences has a sizable contingent steeped in an idiom far removed from Euro-American norms achieved such prominence.

7.   Carr was suddenly the kind of story that can only happen in a U.S. Open, when a qualifier can achieve prominence with a remarkable round.

8.   Clement is one of the first singers of his generation to achieve national prominence.

9.   Having struggled for so long to achieve prominence, she became increasingly anxious about doing anything less than her best.

10.   In recent years, ballroom has achieved enough prominence to point it toward the Olympics.