1.   Just the sight of Nixon shaking hands with Chou or chatting with Mao Tse-tung gave him stature.

2.   The box set has given stature to popular and obscure artists, by providing context.

3.   But it also gave stature to a rightist party that has not hesitated to employ bigotry and racist vitriol.

4.   He consciously chose to take an African art form and transform it into a classical work, hoping to elevate the hollers and give them stature.

5.   He gives them stature on the field, which they need since their move from Cleveland.

6.   He said that she had taken over an embryonic office and given it stature.

7.   It gives them stature in the eyes of the other militaries of the world.

8.   It was his basketball play that gave him stature.

9.   Next to him was one of the best-educated men, an economist, whose learning gave him stature here.

10.   Prizes give artists stature in their fields, which often means larger advances for their next works.