Sentence examples similar to I rises on from inspiring English sources

I rose on my toes to keep from falling forward.

Nicki Minaj offered her own rendition of Maya Angelou's 1978 poem Still I Rise, on Wednesday night in Los Angeles's Shrine auditorium, for the recorded event Shining a Light: A Concert for Progress on Race in America.

Same as usual today, until a woman near the back of the courtroom rose to her feet and shouted, "I rise on behalf of democracy; overturn Citizens United!" Two officers immediately pounced on the woman, grabbing her and, apparently (I heard later), throwing her to the ground just outside the courtroom where her head hit the floor with a thud.

- Mr President, I rise on behalf of the Committee on Transport and Tourism to present this oral question.

– Mr President, I rise on this report because I absolutely despise the Common Fisheries Policy and the ecological disaster that it has caused for my country and the waters around it.

It won't be any feeble, conventional wings I'll rise on — not I, born of poor parents.

It won't be any feeble, conventional wings I'll rise on_ — _not I, born of poor parents.

"I remember writing about the snow in The Dark Is Rising with a lizard on my typewriter," she says.

I rose at dawn, put on a black dress and saw the German guy off at the airport terminal.

Finally, breathing for two, I rose up on my knees.

I rise, put on my sap-spangled work pants, and decide to get the oak tree off my deck.