Grant was riding a rising tide of popularity, and there was talk that a Union victory early in the year could lead to his candidacy for the presidency.
Yet we may equally take this as evidence not of the victory of Sautrāntika, but of the influence of the rising popularity of Yogācāra in India and Tibet.
With the rise of popularity of multi-agent systems, a large number of different software tools, systems, platforms and environments that allow development and deployment of multi-agent systems and their applications in different domains have been designed and implemented.
Fifteen years earlier, as a journalist, she'd reported on how books were becoming "portable pastors" to help explain the rise of popularity of the spirituality category in publishing--and, by unfortunate converse, the drop in annual church attendance.
"The industry also faces the challenge of the rising popularity of 'experiential' purchases at the expense of physical consumption," says the World Gold Council's report.
This may be partly because of the rising popularity of mobile dating apps.
"It's happening pretty quickly," Anton Nocito, the soda company's proprietor, said of the rising popularity of soft drinks as distinctive as their spiked cousins.
Demand for bourbon had been declining since the early '70s, in part because of the rising popularity of gin and vodka.
That gives a sense of the rising popularity of foreign retirement, though some expatriate retirees may not collect Social Security for various reasons.
It's a problem our industry has struggled with in the wake of the rising popularity of sharing mp3 music files.
