Sentence examples for a crest of popularity from inspiring English sources

Buscemi deserves the Emmy, but Fallon, riding a crest of popularity since taking over "The Tonight Show," probably will prevail, even though he won for hosting "Saturday Night Live" two years ago.

The face of Gen Sisi, the former military intelligence chief who is now riding a crest of widespread popularity, was everywhere.

A Troubled Third Term Mr. Koch, riding a huge crest of popularity, was elected in 1985 to a third term, with an amazing 78 percent of the vote.

NO wine rode a bigger crest of popularity in the 1990's than merlot.

Glasses with red and green lenses are provided (a second disc has the film and extras in two dimensions), and Mr. Rodriguez explains many of the effects in, Dave Kehr wrote in The Times, an "enjoyable, noisy romp that trots out all the gimmicks that have made the format fun since its first brief crest of popularity in the early 1950's".

The premise is rooted in pathos: Elvis Presley, no longer at the crest of popularity, inveighing against the Beatles in particular and the Age of Aquarius over all, wants to volunteer for the war on drugs and wants Nixon to swear him in as a federal agent.

The upper classes learn the joys of delis and, later, the different ethnic cuisines that ride successive crests of popularity.

Today they still own their shares in Facebook, and are much the richer for it.The story of Messrs Harinrayan and Rajaraman is rare, but it does not stop some dreaming of a prescient ground floor investment in a company about to crest a wave of popularity.

He left office a few months after the terrorist attacks, having achieved a singular distinction: no other modern mayor of New York had departed at the crest of his popularity.

Rudolph W. Giuliani leaves office tonight assured of one pedestal in the pantheon of New York mayors: no other modern mayor, not even Fiorello H. La Guardia, departed at the crest of his popularity.

By the weekend, the Lib Dems were riding the crest of a powerful wave of popularity as they pushed ahead of Labour and the Tories in the opinion polls.