Boehner applauds but does not rise.
She greets him; he nods but does not rise.
George Arzt, a friend of Mr. Cox's who worked with him during the Koch administration, called the indictment "penny-ante stuff that represents a lapse in judgment but does not rise to a criminal indictment".
George Arzt, a friend of Mr. Cox's who worked with him in the Koch administration, said this week that the indictment was "penny-ante stuff that represents a lapse in judgment but does not rise to a criminal indictment".
The result may be well meaning but doesn't rise above television noir.
The word repeats over and over, but doesn't rise or change: the singer is looping himself, like a machine.
Gary Lundgren's debut feature, "Calvin Marshall," aspires to that league but doesn't rise above Class A. There are scenes in "Calvin Marshall," which Mr. Lundgren wrote and directed, that capture the way a timely hit in a softball game or a small gesture in a local bar becomes an indelible, fixed point in our memories.
Soak the potting mix deeply enough so that water fills the drainage tray below roughly halfway full, but doesn't rise higher than the growing container.
New World astronomy, for example, developed in complete independence but did not rise to so advanced a level.
Like Ulysses S. Grant, another general to make it to the White House, Ike won elections easily, but did not rise to the responsibilities these thrust upon him.
Justice Cerbone, 68, had a history of improper actions, the commission said, and had received four confidential letters of caution criticizing actions the commission deemed troubling but did not rise to the level of requiring a public rebuke.
