Example sentences of "[unc] most prominent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sport 's most prominent black is Bill White , president of the National League . |
| 2 | ONE OF Czechoslovakia 's most prominent dissidents , Stanislav Devaty , has gone underground rather than face an appeal hearing which could have confirmed a 20-month jail sentence . |
| 3 | ON JULY 14 this year , Dai Qing , one of China 's most prominent journalists , was arrested and her flat in Beijing ransacked . |
| 4 | Mr Laurent Gbagbo , the country 's most prominent opposition politician and the leader of a clandestine political party , the Ivorian Popular Front , was put under house arrest . |
| 5 | One of Colchester 's most prominent buildings is a top-heavy Victorian water tower , known locally as Jumbo , standing beyond the western end of High Street . |
| 6 | However , a series of related allegations eventually led to a High Court libel action involving Docherty and two of Manchester United 's most prominent players , Denis Law and Willie Morgan , who perhaps predictably were both Scots . |
| 7 | In 1983 one of the most outstanding gifts to benefit the Theatre Collection was donated by Alan Tagg , one of this country 's most prominent and prolific stage designers . |
| 8 | Jack Cunningham , one of Smith 's most prominent supporters , has also fallen foul of these anonymous briefings . |
| 9 | Membership of this club entails attending an annual dinner at which some 400 of Edinburgh 's most prominent citizens assemble to celebrate Scott 's memory , at which an admiral or general and a judge respond to toasts to the Armed Forces and the Law , and the president speaks on some aspect of the author of the Waverley novels . |
| 10 | In the morning the SS firing squads shot dead twenty-four of Bazar 's most prominent citizens . |
| 11 | Mori recent history is commemorated by the town 's most prominent statue . |
| 12 | Medvedev was a former rector of the Central Committee 's Academy of Social Sciences , and in September 1988 he became head of the newly-established ideological commission of the Central Committee and thus the leadership 's most prominent theoretician . |
| 13 | In bald terms , many of today 's most prominent constitutional authorities have grown anxious about the working of unfettered representative democracy and majority rule . |
| 14 | Gaspar Miklós Tamas , one of Hungary 's most prominent dissidents prior to the end of one-party communist rule , on Jan. 13 won a parliamentary by-election in Budapest for the SzDSz . |
| 15 | He was opposed by Corazon Aquino ( the widow of the country 's most prominent opponent of the Marcos regime until his murder in 1983 — see pp. 32517-18 ) , and although Marcos claimed victory it was generally believed that Aquino had secured a greater number of votes . |
| 16 | Boris Yeltsin , the CPSU 's most prominent radical , stunned the congress on July 12 with the announcement that he was resigning his party membership . |
| 17 | Gen. Hartono Resko Dharsono , Indonesia 's most prominent dissident , was released from prison on Sept. 16 . |
| 18 | Charges of subversion against two of the government 's most prominent critics , a lawyer , Chief Gani Fawehinmi and a former Kaduna state Governor , Balarabe Musa [ see pp. 36648 ; 36727 ; 36968 ] , were dropped by a military tribunal in late January 1990 . |
| 19 | As widely expected , Lech Walesa , the leader of the Solidarity trade union and the country 's most prominent opposition figure in the 1980s , gained a majority of the vote in the first direct presidential elections held in Poland , on Nov. 25 . |
| 20 | Lech Walesa , the leader of the Solidarity trade union and the country 's most prominent opposition figure in the 1980s , gained a landslide victory in the second round of the presidential elections , held on Dec. 9 . |
| 21 | The Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) news agency reported on Aug. 14 that two of China 's most prominent dissidents , Wang Juntao and Chen Zeming , had begun a hunger strike to protest against prison conditions . |
| 22 | Gen. Hartono Resko Dharsono , Indonesia 's most prominent dissident , launched on Aug. 22 a new Forum for the Purification of People 's Sovereignty ( FPPS ) to promote democratic values in Indonesia . |
| 23 | The group received the immediate backing of the " Petition of 50 " ( or " Group of 50 " ) movement , Indonesia 's most prominent dissident grouping . |
| 24 | He was opposed by Corazon Aquino , the widow of the country 's most prominent opponent of the Marcos regime until his murder in 1983 . |
| 25 | A number of people convicted under Article 100 were subsequently released from prison , including Huang Hwa , Taiwan 's most prominent dissident , on May 18 . |
| 26 | This brought to 277 the total number of detainees released since April [ see pp. 38866 ; 38913 ] ; however , Aung San Suu Kyi , the country 's most prominent opposition politician , remained under house arrest . |
| 27 | Orton Chirwa , one of Malawi 's most prominent political prisoners , died in prison on Oct. 20 , apparently from natural causes , although there was evidence that he had been tortured and had suffered ill-treatment during his 10 years ' imprisonment . |
| 28 | The country 's most prominent dissident , Elizardo Sanchez , leader of the Cuban Human Rights and National Reconciliation Commission , was detained for two days but released on Oct. 13 . |
| 29 | Together with Kim Dae Jung he became the country 's most prominent dissident but , unlike the elder Kim , he was never closely associated with the country 's radical left-wing groups . |
| 30 | Finns profited from the accident that their Governor-General , Aleksandr Menshikov , was one of Nicholas 's most prominent , trusted , and above all busiest officials . |