* Prominent socialites, elite aristocrats and royal families, top level professional athletes, chart-topping musicians and pop singers, television and film actors with lead roles on prominently scheduled television shows and hit box office movies, internationally recognized supermodels and models are almost invariably celebrities.

Prominent merchant families and private businesses were allowed to occupy industries that were not already government-operated monopolies.

Prominent positions in the emerging governmental structures were held by Christians, some of whom belonged to families that had served in Byzantine governments.

Prominent Georgian Jewish families in the holy land before 1948 were the Dabra ( Davarashvili ) and Kokia ( Kakiashvili ) families.

Prominent families and landowners included the Saads, Darwiche, Abdullah, Kayal, Sakas, al-Wakid, al-Joudi, Najm, al-Dabdoub, Khalid, Akawi, Hissian, Hawash and al-Sheikha.

Prominent Sandemanian families include the surnames Barnard, Baynes, Baxter, Boosey, Bell, Faraday, Leighton, Mann, Vincent, Whitelaw and Young.

Prominent, too, in the early life of the district were the Gibbes and Murray families, who were related by marriage.

Prominent early landowners in Kirribilli included members of the Campbell, Jeffrey and Gibbes families.

Prominent members of organized crime " families " also frequented the shop, which was regarded as " neutral ground.

Prominent city families established countryseats there as well, including Bush Hill, White Hall, and Lemon Hill, the last of which still stands overlooking the Schuylkill.

Lewis Angel Corbin Biography, as recorded in: Commemorative Biographical Record of Tolland and Winham Counties Connecticut, Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and of many of the early settled families, Publisher: J. H. Beers & Co., CHICAGO ; 1903 P. 212

Prominent Memphis families built large stately homes in the area.

Prominent families could purchase curial offices for their sons and regularly did, hoping that the son would rise through Church ranks to become a Bishop or a Cardinal, from which position they could dispense further titles and positions of authority to other family members.

Prominent figures in New England Puritanism include Thomas Hooker, John Cotton, and Cotton Mather.

Prominent biomedical engineering applications include the development of biocompatible prostheses, various diagnostic and therapeutic medical devices ranging from clinical equipment to micro-implants, common imaging equipment such as MRIs and EEGs, regenerative tissue growth, pharmaceutical drugs and therapeutic biologicals.

Prominent genera include Cyathocrinus, Woodocrinus, and Actinocrinus.

Prominent goods and services imported by Cyprus in 2008 were consumer goods, machinery, petroleum and other lubricants, transport equipments and intermediate goods.

Prominent among these are the H-line at 3968. 5 Å and the K line at 3933. 7 Å of singly ionized calcium, or Ca II.

* Prominent media journalists, pundits on major nationally syndicated television shows, commentators on prominently scheduled television shows, nationally acclaimed media columnists and syndicated columnists, critically acclaimed and best-selling authors and writers, major national newscasters and news analysts, national television reporters and television anchors, national television game show hosts on prominently scheduled game shows, radio personalities on prominently scheduled radio shows, comedians on major headlining comedy shows, reality television personalities on most prominently scheduled reality television shows, daytime television show hosts, and late night television show hosts have a strong likelihood to become celebrities.

Prominent Latino cultural attractions found here include Humboldt Park's Institute of Puerto Rican Arts and Puerto Rican Day Parade, as well as the National Museum of Mexican Art and St. Adalbert's Church in Pilsen.

Prominent opponents of the Crusaders were Raymond-Roger de Trencavel, viscount of Carcassonne, and his feudal overlord Peter II, the king of Aragon, who held fiefdoms and had a number of vassals in the region.

Prominent examples include carbon monoxide, nitric oxide, and hydrogen chloride, but other important examples include gaseous MgO, SiO, and many other species not normally considered diatomic because they polymerize near room temperature.

Prominent amongst the missionaries and immigrant aid workers were Rev.

Prominent novelist and Harvard Medical School graduate Michael Crichton appeared before the U. S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works to address such concerns and recommended the employment of double-blind experimentation in environmental research.

Prominent contributors to Essendon's 1924 Premiership success included back pocket Clyde Donaldson, follower Norm Beckton, half back flanker Roy Laing, follower Charlie May and rover Charlie Hardy.

* In 1965, the U. S. Postal Service honored Douglass with a stamp in the Prominent Americans series.

Prominent among Fu Manchu's agents was the " seductively lovely " Kâramanèh.

Prominent street art precincts include ; Fitzroy, Collingwood, Northcote, Brunswick, St. Kilda and the CBD, where stencil and sticker art is prominent.

Prominent issues in Hellenic foreign policy include the claims in the Aegean Sea and Eastern Mediterranean by Turkey, the Turkish occupation of Cyprus, the dispute over the name of the Republic of Macedonia ( recognized under the provisional denomination of " former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia "), and relations with the United States and Russia.

According to the estimate of a former prime minister, Hrant Bagratian, 55 percent of Armenia's GDP is controlled by 44 families.

The founders ' families who controlled a significant amount of HP shares were further irked because Fiorina had made no attempt to reach out to them and consult about the merger, instead they received the standard roadshow presentation as other investors.

There have been six non-imperial families who have controlled Japanese emperors: the Soga ( 530s – 645 ), the Fujiwara ( 850s – 1070 ), the Taira ( for a relatively short period ), the Minamoto ( and Kamakura bakufu ) ( 1192 – 1333 ), the Ashikaga ( 1336 – 1565 ) and the Tokugawa ( 1603 – 1867 ).

The two powerful groups making up the community — the priestly families who controlled the Temple and who traced their foundation-myth to Moses and the wilderness wanderings, and the major landowning families who made up the " elders " and who traced their own origins to Abraham, who had " given " them the land — were in conflict over many issues, and each had its own " history of origins ", but the Persian promise of greatly increased local autonomy for all provided a powerful incentive to cooperate in producing a single text.

Coats of arms in the Netherlands were not controlled by an official heraldic system like the two in the United Kingdom, nor were they used solely by noble families.

A handful of powerful families, typified by the dukes of Argyll, Atholl, Buccleuch, and Sutherland, owned the best lands and controlled local political, legal and economic affairs.

In the aftermath, all power was transferred from the East India Company to the British Crown, which began to administer most of India as a number of provinces ; the John Company's lands were controlled directly, while it had considerable indirect influence over the rest of India, which consisted of the Princely states ruled by local royal families.

Such states are often controlled by a few prominent families who pass their influence from one generation to the next.

Though Panama has made enormous advances in social mobility and racial integration, it is still true that much of Panama's economic and social life is controlled by a small number of families.

As of 2005, the extended Porsche and Piëch families controlled all of Porsche AG's voting shares.

Livestock numbers are strictly controlled to conserve pasture and to prevent better-off families from accumulating wealth.

It broadened the franchise and ended the system of " rotten borough " and " pocket boroughs " ( where elections were controlled by powerful families ), and instead redistributed power on the basis of population.

It broadened the franchise and ended the system of " rotten boroughs " and " pocket boroughs " ( where elections were controlled by powerful families ), and instead redistributed power on the basis of population.

Around 300 BC, the state took over control of the Mysteries ; they were controlled by two families, the Eumolpidae and the Kerykes.

Thus the " Fourteen Families " ( actually many dozens of families ) that have controlled El Salvador's history were all but feudal lords.

This increased the power of the noble families () and gave rise to the lesser nobles () who controlled most of Denmark.

Sometimes families controlled public religious functions, but this ordinarily did not give any extra power in the government.

Starting about 300 BC, the state took over control of the Mysteries, specifically controlled by two families: the Eumolpidae and the Kerykes.

In 1965, a full century after the American Civil War, things had not changed much: 86 white families owned 90 percent of the land in the county and controlled the government.

From the 16th to the 19th centuries, Tàrrega began to take on a more rural character, controlled by rich local families.

By the time most indentured workers had earned freedom and some rose to common planter status, the wealthiest planter families in the county already controlled the valuable riverfront.

Wealth, political power and access to education were concentrated among a handful of families, overwhelmingly of European descent, known as hacendados, who controlled vast swaths of the country by virtue of their huge estates ( one family, the Terrazas, had one estate in Sonora alone that comprised more than one million acres ).

This internal war devastated the Prohibition-era operations and street rackets that the five New York families controlled along with the Irish and Jewish crime groups.

Designed to settle all disputes and decide which families controlled which territories, the Commission has been called Luciano's greatest innovation.