Most important, it gives him the opportunity to challenge Citigroup's claim as the world's pre-eminent financial institution.

For 156 years the Vienna Philharmonic, Austria's pre-eminent cultural institution, was a male-only preserve.

The Museum is a pre-eminent educational, research, recreational, and cultural institution in Southeastern Utah.

And the historical parallels will eventually be seen: Both were funded by pre-eminent, expansionist institutions and both were lured by the promise of an underdeveloped frontier.

Over the years the abbey acquired extensive land holdings on Funen making it a pre-eminent institution until the Reformation.

When he becomes dean of the law school in July, he said, one of his most exciting challenges will be to help make Yale the pre-eminent institution for global law.

Any significant strengthening of an elected civilian government threatens the country's two pre-eminent institutions, the military and the bureaucracy.

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, the pre-eminent Indian institution for research and education in Science and Engineering.

FOR 293 years Yale has been a pre-eminent institution of higher learning, in its lighter moments giving birth to the Whiffenpoofs and helping to popularize the button-down shirt.

By 1957 the school was the pre-eminent institution in Europe in its fields of study.