Sentence examples for rose to accept from inspiring English sources
He rose to accept the acclaim and laughingly reminded the chamber that "boisterous demonstrations" were forbidden.
The ninth-, tenth-, and eleventh-graders still in the band cheered like mad whenever one of their own rose to accept a diploma.
The Park Lane Grovesnor hotel, in central London, erupted into cheers as the 26-year old rapper from south London rose to accept the prize for her debut album Speech Therapy.
The early baby boomers, those who protested, marched and fought for equality, rose to accept their historic challenge.
Cagney, amazingly spry for 74, did a little dance for the crowd and television audience (the evening was being filmed for a network special presentation) then, later, rose to accept one of the industry's highest honors.
At the same moment, a sixth-former at the local school, wearing the smart suit he has been clad in all year, rises to accept a trophy for having exceeded the individual targets that he (and every other child) had been set, and for having achieved three A* grades and one A at A-level.
Lew would permit half an hour of manic schmoozing before he would take the microphone; then, with the instincts of an Ed Sullivan, he would insist that every last ex-mayor and City Council member in the crowd rise to accept a round of applause.
So too must captains of industry rise to accept their opportunity of influence, for the betterment of humanity in one of its most volatile moments.
As she rose to a podium to accept the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction, she announced to the few hundred people present that she had just been detained by immigration agents.
So for the administration to persuade China, Brazil and the other rising powers to accept another American atop the World Bank — on the heels of another European taking the top job at the International Monetary Fund — would require an indisputably heavyweight candidate.
The 18-year-old headed for Wearside last night to undergo a medical after the Black Cats' offer of £8.1million, potentially rising to £12million, was accepted.
