Archie was often known as "The Bishop", even if his ecclesiastical stature fell short of David Sheppard's.
The evening's strongest work came from the bass-baritone Falk Struckmann as a Scarpia whose baronial stature fell away easily and believably to reveal a leering, ogling grotesque.
IN its earlier days, Genentech was sometimes accused of promoting its drugs to some patients who did not need them, most notably growth hormone to athletes, youth-seekers and some children whose physical stature fell well above the guidelines indicated for prescription.
In the 1960s, the vehicular test crash protocol called for testing with dummies modeled after the average male with its height, weight and stature falling in the 50th percentile.
While some might think a tune of this stature falls into the "off-limits" area for remixers, French producer LeMarquis won a free pass.
Early on, he assumes an untouchable, almost mythic stature: drugs fall to him without a shot being fired (as they do again this week), children play "Omar" instead of cops and robbers.
The president enraged citizens of Luxor, a city entirely dependent on tourism, by appointing as governor a member of a hard-line Islamist party associated with the massacre, in 1997, of 62 people, most of them tourists.As the Brotherhood's stature diminished a fall from grace underlined by a series of ministerial resignations those around Mr Morsi began to see conspiracies everywhere.
And it does not attain the stature of "Empire Falls," despite the books' surface similarities.
Howard Socol, the chief executive of Barneys New York, who restored the company's stature after it fell into bankruptcy in the 1990s, has told colleagues he intends to resign, according to people knowledgeable about the situation.
— The drama of former Senator John Edwards's trial took a few more twists on Thursday as Andrew Young, the eager aide whose fortunes and stature rose and fell with those of Mr. Edwards, admitted submitting misleading financial statements to a wealthy benefactor who thought he was helping the senator hide a mistress.
