Sentence examples for rising on one from inspiring English sources

— Mitt Romney, CNN Republican debate, October 18 Supplementary notes: ONE: Santorum was apparently referring to a 2008 Brookings Institution study showing that, as the authors put it, "rising on one's own bootstraps is harder in the United States than it is in several Northern European countries," to wit, Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Sweden.

I couldn't see the cliff rising on one side or the drop-off on the other.

Rising on one knee, Officer Caprice returned fire as Mr. Redden retreated to his car, the official said.

In Hong Kong, an 88-floor monolith is rising on one side of Victoria Harbor, while a 102-story counterpart is planned for the other side.

The Seine, here of immense breadth, at first slightly curving runs for the last mile above Surennes in one long straight reach, with a bank rising on one side and a long line of trees and willows on the other.

But these mealy-mouthed justifications, ranging from the morally bankrupt to the nakedly self-interested, are far outnumbered by Assad's Arab spring victims – up to 800 dead and rising, on one weekend count, plus tens of thousands detained, tortured or terrorised.

Tall hybrid tea roses grow in front of the barn, with a climbing rose on one end.

The building will rise on one acre of Colgate-Palmolive's 20-acre Colgate Center tract, where its toothpaste factory once stood.

The best of these were a pair of dresses — one in red gingham silk and the other in a lightweight navy wool pinstripe — that were cut so that the hem rose on one leg.

"The curtain rises on one of the most compelling dramas since the Scopes trial sought to establish the roots of human life," one newsman wrote, filing a report for the New York Daily News.

Several minutes past its scheduled opening, the curtain finally rose on one of America's most beloved musicals, "South Pacific". This musical, based on James A. Michner's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1948 novel "Tales of the South Pacific," opened on Broadway in 1949 with stars Enzio Pinza and Mary Martin.