By 1999, as the leader of three important and successful BIDs in midtown Manhattan, Biederman had acquired considerable stature as a person who could remedy urban situations long believed intractable.

He must acquire stature and establish his maturity and character and gravitas while serving an office that has tended to diminish its occupants.

Welch (1957:96-97) concludes that fangshi developed alchemy, "although Tsou Yen gradually acquired alchemistical stature, he himself knew nothing of the art.

Clearly part of the allure of Mr. Stingel's art is its biting humor, its challenge to ideas that have acquired outsize stature in our culture.

Overnight, the critic Brooks Atkinson declared in his review for The Times, the American theater had acquired "size and stature."

Loyally as always, he did the party's bidding in this as in so much else, but he was also acquiring stature and authority.

An active member of international trades bodies, he acquired international stature in business.

Other traits included mild facial changes, acquired short stature as seen in other MPS disorders, and normal joint movement and intelligence.

Music that might have seemed effete in the hands of a lesser singer acquired stature.

The International Wine Review is slowly acquiring stature.