Sentence examples for rose to it from inspiring English sources

More power to the Opera Festival of New Jersey, which took on a thorny challenge a little bit over its head and rose to it with dignity, proving that there can be room for a second-tier performance of a great work.

He rose to it.

But for all that, they rose to it and made it work.

This was the greatest challenge of the ANC leader's years in prison, and Mandela rose to it.

And the actors rose to it, Laurence Fishburne managing to anchor the whole thing in a grandiloquent theatricality.

September 11th presented a challenge to America's leaders, and by and large, especially in the early months, they rose to it.

"He rises to it.

We all need to rise to it.

Who will rise to it?" We will.

But he'll rise to it.

Ignore them and don't rise to it".