Sentence examples for ascending player from inspiring English sources

But Rondo is still an ascending player, while the careers of the other three are waning.

Regardless of the opinion of Carson Palmer as a player -- although most management I have talked to see him as a declining, not ascending player -- it is difficult to think of another team that would make this trade.

Brian VanGorder, the linebackers coach, described Lansanah as an "ascending player".

When fighting around the ramps at the end of each "spoke" of the wheel, try jumping the barrier to catch ascending players from the rear.

Ascending players can also choose to make their ascension more difficult by taking on various restrictions, such as not being able to eat or drink, in exchange for special rewards.

But success stories of ex-scout teamers like Tony Romo, Arian Foster and James Harrison notwithstanding, the odds of a practice squad player ascending to a lengthy, secure NFL career are steep.

Victoria Azarenka: This 22-year-old Belarusian tennis player ascended to the top of the WTA rankings, fittingly reaching the No. 1 spot with her win in the final of the 2012 Australian Open.

They distract our attention from him, the significance of his visit and the city's ascending role as a world player.

But after all these years, the midlevel or journeyman N.B.A. white player is still ascending to the choice front-office position, the general manager's chair, by more than two to one.

Jimmy Butler, ascending: The newly minted max player is playing at an All-Star level again and backing up his strong words with stronger play.

Just over 15 minutes long, that handsomely made work posed a central opposition: Ms. Wincenc, now a songbird fighting gravity and gusty crosscurrents, played short ascending motifs that the string players seized, stretched or compressed and reoriented downward.