The phrase "raise stars" is not a proper or usable phrase in written English.
Instead, you might use the phrase "raise the bar" (meaning to set a higher standard). For example, you could say, "She raised the bar with her impressive accomplishments."
Mr. Parker said he had kept an open mind about Ms. Rhee's proposals, which would raise star teachers' salaries to $130,000, with bonuses, by 2010, and the two went together before several mass gatherings of teachers in July to explain them.
This was as overriding an existential issue for Burns as it obviously is now: why does the media, which raises stars, drop them?
The ICA said it saw this as a sign they belonged to a "sincere and unsensationalist" generation of artists, after the headline-grabbing iconoclasm of Brit Art and its hell-raising stars, Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin.
But President Bush's squad of Rangers, fund-raisers who pledge to collect at least $200,000 for his re-election campaign, are already outpacing the brisk levels of 2000, and Howard Dean has used the Internet to become one of the biggest Democratic money-raising stars ever.
Companies assume that parents who dream of raising stars of their own will delight in knowing about the precedents set by little Mark Walker or Mitchie Brusco and will want to track their careers, if only to pick up a few tips.
Private corporate investors followed suit, and cut-throat competition dramatically raised star-player salaries.
IN front of 114 East 37th Street, for example, she spotted a coal-chute cover of an anonymous foundry that sported a raised star, bubble-like dots and a ring of diamond shapes.
Lucas paid his respects to his frequent collaborator by crediting Williams's music for raising Star Wars to "a level of popular art that would stand the test of time".
To be a rebel you need a society to rebel against, a Man to kick in the nuts, and - as Doherty found - the figure of the drug-taking, hell-raising star isn't so much counter-cultural these days as a vital source of mainstream entertainment.
But not only is it perfectly legal to bid for a role in a porn shoot, it might be the new crowdfunding model used by both journalists and Hollywood filmmakers needed to raise porn stars' deflated incomes back up to pre-recession levels.
Brenda Bergman, 62, straight but a fan of all things gay, said she would like to see a sculpture in the park opposite the bar – where Segal's work stands – that echoed the iconic photograph of US marines raising the stars and stripes on Iwo Jima, "but instead with drag queens raising the rainbow flag".
