He is regarded as the " first master of the desert and the pinnacle of holy monks ", however, and there are monastic communities of the Maronite, Chaldean, and Orthodox churches which state that they follow his monastic rule.

According to the ICC, it is the most important tournament and the pinnacle of achievement in the sport.

In 1958, Mies van der Rohe designed what is often regarded as the pinnacle of the modernist high-rise architecture, the Seagram Building in New York City.

* 2003 – The pinnacle is fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by and become the World's tallest highrise.

Class 1 World Powerboat Championship is often referred to as the equivalent of Formula 1 motor racing as it is the pinnacle of offshore powerboat racing.

In terms of an overall context, historian Ronald Mellor has stated that the Annals is " Tacitus's crowning achievement " which represents the " pinnacle of Roman historical writing ".

His first trip to India is widely considered a pinnacle of world history as it marked the beginning of the first wave of global multiculturalism.

The Muslim faith believes that without a good spirit while enduring, the struggle will not bear its full reward, thus, Patiently persevering, striving and going forward, despite the difficulty, is the pinnacle of behavior during challenging times.

At the pinnacle of the ranking system is the rank of yokozuna.

Sports prototype is the name given to a type of car used in sports car racing and is effectively the next automotive design and technological step up from road-going supercars and are, along with open-wheel cars, the pinnacle of racing-car design.

This simultaneity both appears playfully, in his Hortense novels, Our Beautiful Heroine, Hortense in Exile, and Hortense is Abducted, and with gravity and reflection in The Great Fire of London, considered the pinnacle of his prose.

His advance through Swat and Gandhara is marked by the storming of the almost impregnable pinnacle of Aornos, a few miles west of the Indus.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ( 1770 – 1831 ) is the philosopher who brought the dialectical method to its pinnacle of development.

It is unique among the surviving crosses in having a triangular plan, and a taller and more slender profile with a lower tier entirely covered with diapering, instead of the arch-and-gable motif with tracery which appears on both the others ; and canopied statues surmounted by a slender hexagonal pinnacle.

Three of the four uppermost spheres lack vertical support and hence are not open to the public for safety reasons, although the sphere at the pinnacle is open to the public.

Professional sailing in France is centred on singlehanded and shorthanded ocean racing with the pinnacle of this branch of the sport being the Vendee Globe singlehanded around the world race which starts every 4 years from the French Atlantic coast.

On the top of each tower is a pinnacle standing 73. 5 meters tall.

Each pinnacle is composed of 50 unique parts making up the main components: the spire, mast ball and ring ball.

During his reign at this weight, the 2 round destruction of the legendary Roberto Durán, in which he became the first boxer to KO Durán, is seen as his pinnacle achievement, earning him his second Ring Magazine " Fighter of the Year " award in 1984.

Through various experiments it has been found that in order to design the mechanical properties of new material, controlling the grain size and its distribution, amount of distribution and other is pinnacle.

Psychologists call this high group cohesion, and it is the pinnacle of group achievement.

It is a masterwork of Western calligraphy and represents the pinnacle of Insular illumination.

Finally, he found the statues of Mausolus and Artemisia that had stood at the pinnacle of the building.

Fulgurites ( substances that form when lightning melts rock ) on the volcano are restricted to the very pinnacle of the mountain, and are only found between the top and of its summit.

Beyond the second pinnacle, they found and photographed a body that was later identified, from the clothing and features, as Peter Boardman.

A false climax is found in a Grandioso section identical to that of the first movement, which in turn evolves into another build to the true pinnacle of the concerto, again dominated by the F Major 6 chord, bringing the piece to a close.

On his return from England, laden with booty, Wallace found himself at the pinnacle of his power.

In December 1974, at the pinnacle of their fame ( and just a month after the Rumble in the Jungle between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Kinshasa ), Shungu Wembadio ( Papa Wemba ), along with Evoloko Lay Lay, Mavuela Somo and Bozi Boziana ( who'd joined Zaiko Langa Langa a year earlier ), left Zaiko Langa Langa to establish their own musical ensemble Isifi Lokole, ISIFI being an acronym for " Institut du Savoir Ideologique pour la Formation des Idoles.

Making an audacious change in its direction, Buloz took to the magazine to the pinnacle of French publishing by bringing in some of France's most celebrated literary talent: Sainte-Beuve, Victor Hugo, Alfred de Vigny, Alfred de Musset, George Sand, Balzac, Dumas père and eventually Octave Feuillet, Hippolyte Taine and Ernest Renan.

Although he landed on his feet as the successor to George Weiss, president of the Mets, Devine was forced to leave his hometown and the only team he had ever worked for at the pinnacle of his career.

From Bizet's unfinished works, Macdonald highlights La coupe du roi de Thulé as giving clear signs of the power that would reach a pinnacle in Carmen, and suggests that had Clarissa Harlowe and Grisélidis been completed, Bizet's legacy would have been " infinitely richer ".

The pinnacle of his railroading career came at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he became works manager of the Allegheny locomotive erecting shops of the American Locomotive Company ( ALCO ).

Hector Berlioz's Les nuits d ' été ( 1841 ) pioneered the use of the orchestra, and the French cycle reached a pinnacle in Gabriel Fauré's La bonne chanson, La chanson d ' Ève and L ' horizon chimérique and later in the works of Poulenc.

While the first-movement form had been the subject of theoretical works, it was seen as the pinnacle of musical technique.

One of his pinnacle works with RCA / BMG Studios was the recording, mixing, and mastering of the audio for the Motion Picture Malcolm X ( film ), by legendary film director Spike Lee in 1992.

A heart attack in 1970 slowed Newton's output, but his notoriety continued to increase, most notably with his 1980 " Big Nudes " series, which marked the pinnacle of his erotic-urban style, underpinned with excellent technical skills.

" Ernest Lester Jones, Director, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, the oldest scientific agency of our Government, writer on our coastal waterways bordering the Pacific Ocean, a resourceful administrator, increasing largely our supply of reliable maps and supervising the use of new devices for making our waters safer, notably by detecting the perilous submerged pinnacle rocks ; a Colonel in the Army during the war, on active service in France and Italy, decorated by the King of Italy, awarded the Diploma of Merit by the Aerial League of America, recommended for the French Croix de Guerre ; most recently instrumental in helping to form the American Legion to perpetuate American Liberty.

Poliakov writes that various examples of medieval Muslim literature portray Judaism as an exemplary pinnacle of faith, and Israel being destined by this virtue.

they were topped by steeples complete in every detail: high-pitched roof, pinnacle, and narrow gable.

On the pinnacle of that mountain, the words of the poem started to come to her, and she wrote them down upon returning to her hotel room at the original Antlers Hotel.

The 9th-10th century master of the religious system known as " the nondual Shaivism of Kashmir " ( or " Kashmir Shaivism ") and aesthetician, Abhinavagupta brought rasa theory to its pinnacle in his separate commentaries on the Dhvanyāloka, the Dhvanyāloka-locana ( translated by Ingalls, Masson and Patwardhan, 1992 ) and the Abhinavabharati, his commentary on the Nātyashāstra, portions of which are translated by Gnoli and Masson and Patwardhan.

The first modern production technology for armour plating was used by navies in the construction of the Ironclad warship, reaching its pinnacle of development with the battleship.

Virgil was seen as the pinnacle of Latin literature, and Latin was the dominant literary language of England at the time, therefore making Virgilian influence highly likely.

Paul K. Davis wrote that " Caesar's victory took him to the pinnacle of power, effectively ending the Republic.

During this decade Mozart composed his most famous operas, his six late symphonies which helped to redefine the genre, and a string of piano concerti which still stand at the pinnacle of these forms.

A self-aware person will act completely within his capabilities to his pinnacle, while an ignorant person will flounder and encounter difficulty.

In this documentary, Morris brought to a pinnacle the revolutionary technique that he had first introduced to the world in his 1988 The Thin Blue Line: the use of re-enactments in a documentary film — a technique ( re-enactments ) which had previously been thought to be inappropriate for use in a " documentary " film.

These were hereditary courtiers whose experience and background would have brought them to the pinnacle of a life's career.

These were hereditary courtiers whose experience and background would have brought them to the pinnacle of a life's career.

These were hereditary courtiers whose experience and background would have brought them to the pinnacle of a life's career.

These were hereditary courtiers whose experience and background would have brought them to the pinnacle of a life's career.

These were hereditary courtiers whose experience and background would have brought them to the pinnacle of a life's career.

These were hereditary courtiers whose experience and background would have brought them to the pinnacle of a life's career.

These were hereditary courtiers whose experience and background would have brought them to the pinnacle of a life's career.

These were hereditary courtiers whose experience and background would have brought them to the pinnacle of a life's career.

These were hereditary courtiers whose experience and background would have brought them to the pinnacle of a life's career.

These were hereditary courtiers whose experience and background would have brought them to the pinnacle of a life's career.

These were hereditary courtiers whose experience and background would have brought them to the pinnacle of a life's career.

These were hereditary courtiers whose experience and background would have brought them to the pinnacle of a life's career.

These were hereditary courtiers whose experience and background would have brought them to the pinnacle of a life's career.