Victoria, Queen, M. Waddington received by, in Paris; prestige of, in France; expresses approval of M. Waddington.

Queen Victoria had a great prestige in France.

It was the opinion of Count Cavour, Victor Emmanuel's minister, that, by acting with the allies against Russia, Sardinia would increase her prestige with the European Powers, and thereby promote the movement for independence.

But he did hope to lower his prestige by making him the holder of a sinecure at home.

They lost the last of Europe in the Balkan War, and with it their prestige as increasers of Islam; the growth of national consciousness among their subjects, not least among the Turks themselves, has loosened the foundations of their military empire, as of the other military empires with which they are allied.

In our far-flung Empire it was essential that we should maintain our prestige among the races we governed, some of them martial peoples who might remain faithful to the British flag only so long as we could impress them with our power to win the war.

This step involves no sacrifice of money, no sacrifice of honour but the gaining of prestige for the whole nation.

I followed his directions, however, with extreme reluctance because I felt that Mr. Wilson's policies were fundamentally wrong and would unavoidably result in loss of prestige to the United States and to him as its Chief Magistrate.

In fact, Europe's prestige at Constantinople had disappeared.

" "Not much comfort in knowing we've got such a fool for a commander," Jack cried, thinking of the disgrace of the day before and of the small chance the regiment had under such a chief to redeem its prestige on the morrow.

Yang Chien gained useful prestige from his family connections.

In Germany, the most antiquated and the most modern of European states, the old dynastic Germany of the princes and junkers has lasted on by virtue of exceptional successes and prestige into the world of steel and electricity.

Napoleon was irresolute, although it appeared to him that war with Prussia was the only way to recover his prestige after the mistakes of the Mexican expedition.

Of course war has a great and instinctive prestige about it; are we not misled by that into accepting it as an inevitable business?" "No, I believe there is a real gain," said Lestrange, "in the national sense of unity, in the feeling of having been equal to an emergency.

For there is no prestige like military prestige.

They had lost prestige over the Schleswig-Holstein negotiations.

There was, however, at this time in Heidelberg a scientist probably of greater prestige than even these, whose contemporary influence was more dominant, and whose repute is now, and likely to be hereafter more prevailing.

He was elected three times mayor of Montreal, serving one term with great prestige under the most trying circumstances.