That began Douglas's steep and lightning-quick ascent to the top of her sport.
Hers is an unusual background, and quick ascent, for a manager in a minor league team's office.
It was Alex Rodriguez, who was just passing through Class AA ball on his quick ascent to stardom.
The investigation into Mr. Sindone's conduct has short-circuited what had been his quick ascent within the department.
(Anderson) ★ Laura Mvula (Monday) Britain's neo-soul talent du jour finished fourth in the BBC's Sound of 2013 poll, and continues a quick ascent.
MOSCOW, Dec. 10 — Dmitri A. Medvedev's quick ascent owes much to Vladimir V. Putin, the man who endorsed him as his successor on Monday.
After dropping out of college at the University of California, Riverside, Ms. Yi, a native of nearby Fontana, Calif., enjoyed a relatively quick ascent on the Los Angeles comedy circuit.
The 1,680-foot 1,680-foot which is the first place the sun hits the United States in the suMars Hillers a spectacular 360-degree expanse after a quick ascent.
While Stevens might have been a success in the corporate world — he still discusses developments in the pharmaceutical industry with former co-workers after church — nobody at Eli Lilly could have predicted his quick ascent in coaching.
"I Want My Name Back," financed by Mr. Paradiso and shot in and around Englewood from 2008 to 2011, charts Mr. Wright and Mr. O'Brien's quick ascent to rap royalty as Englewood teenagers and their subsequent fading from the pop-music scene.
While that was happening, she morphed into the most eclectic black-music style idol since Grace Jones, and certainly the one with the quickest ascent to the style elite, with a look that's loud, cartoonish and edging toward avant-garde.
