With its two grandly revitalised opera houses, Spain now occupies a prominent position in the opera world.
The Japanese government seems determined to make an example of CSFB because of its prominent position in international financial markets.
Presumably, trying to keep healthy bodies on the field was why Giants management gave the hand sanitizers such a prominent position.
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Historically, a prominent position grew out of a degree of public trust (with the exceptions of, say, warlords or machine bosses).
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Chronicling Thomas Cromwell's rise from blacksmith's son to a prominent position in Henry VIII's court, the novel became a best-seller after winning the 2009 Man Booker Prize and various other awards.
The Glasgow 2014 bid's head of media, Rob Shorthouse, said that by displaying a Glasgow 2014 sticker in a prominent position in their window, Scottish businesses would create a huge visible presence for the bid this summer.
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It seems that Sorkin wants to convict Jobs of lacking the moral character for not using his wealth and prominent position in the world of commerce to set an example for others less wealthy and less powerful than him.
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There are some very attractive Conservative frontbench spokesmen - I mean I'm not in the House of Commons, haven't been there for ten years so I don't know these people very well, but there are some attractive figures and I hope that they're in a more prominent position in the next few months.
If one did and he ended up in a prominent government position, the shoe collection would be newsworthy simply by virtue of being so weird.
According to Avivah Wittenberg-Cox and Alison Maitland, two of the most prominent exponents of this position, it is not enough to smash the glass ceiling.
It is worrying in the extreme that the Bush Administration, in which Khan serves as among its most prominent Muslims, is in a position to influence not only assessments of the threat posed by some among his co-religionists but policy needed to address that threat.
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Shortly after our conversation with Senator Clinton one of her more prominent supporters had to give up her position on the Clinton campaign.
The accusation against Komuro in a blog is strongly reminiscent of the scandal involving Hiroaki Matsubara, another prominent researcher who recently resigned from his position after numerous retractions and investigations.
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Blair McDougall, of Better Together, told BBC Scotland that prominent figures from across Europe had supported the position.
But Jonathan Bristol abused his position as a partner at a prominent New York City law firm to break the law over and over again.
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It was also far more prominent than academics questioning other parts of the "establishment" position, such as the economics of tackling climate change.
Conversely, how justify not contributing to a prominent industry supporter because he or she happens to have a strong position on an unrelated social issue?
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He made news in early 2013 by taking a position in Herbalife, the nutritional supplements seller, shortly after another prominent hedge fund manager, William Ackman, called the company a pyramid scheme.
"Due to the prominent siting of the advertisement within the Kensington Place conservation area, its elevated position on the buildings and its use of modern and incongruous materials the proposal fails to preserve or enhance the architectural of historic character and appearance of the conservation area and the appearance of the building and represents an unduly dominant and obtrusive advertisement, " the council said.
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As with the Replicator, the technology driving the Digitizer has been around for some time, and while there's a bit of a land rush to be the first to bring it to market, MakerBot's success has put it in a good position to be, if not the first, then certainly the most prominent example of its consumer-facing side.
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Fascination with her position and her personality (and even her prospective political ambitions) has been prominent in the European news media.
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