Dr. Sunai said military analysts in neighboring Thailand estimated that a Vietnamese troop presence rose to 10,000 or more late last year.
Having recently visited the building, I, too, could not help being impressed by its striking sculptural presence, rising as it does from a flat landscape.
According to the most recent State of the Chains report, while the number of chains stores may have experienced a net growth in 2013, the rate of expansion actually slowed compared to previous years -- except in Brooklyn, where chains' presence rose 2.8percentt.
Latifah, an extraordinarily charismatic presence herself, rises to meet her.
So there's this kind of salve, this presence that rises in the West and comes to the Midwest.
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As Mrs. Obama's fashion presence has risen, so has that of Ms. Pinto, a former Geoffrey Beene assistant.
And her social presence has risen, attending charity balls, art fairs and other A-list parties not only in Moscow, but also in New York and London.
Friends, judges and former professors remembered Mr. Luna as a buoyant, gently ebullient presence, a rising star whose ambition never grated, a sharp intelligence who never threw sharp elbows.
The strangest is an icy Tippi Hedren look-alike brought to the clinic after a failed suicide the lost love of Jerome's dreadful high-school years, whose presence gives rise to a scene of romantic obsession as lurid as any in "Vertigo" and also an ineffably sad, though ultimately goofball, reunion.
