" There could not be a finer one ," asserted Franklin D. Roosevelt, then a rising star from New York.

Also in 2004, she portrayed a rising tennis player in the Wimbledon Championships opposite Paul Bettany, who played a fading former tennis star in the romantic comedy Wimbledon.

After several losing seasons, the team, led by Kent Hrbek, Frank Viola, Bert Blyleven, Jeff Reardon, and rising star Kirby Puckett, returned to the World Series, defeating the Tigers in the ALCS.

While living in Odessa, Orbison drove to Dallas to be shocked at the on-stage antics of Elvis Presley, who was only a year older and a rising star in the music scene.

Obverse: the Temple in Jerusalem | Jewish Temple facade with the rising star, surrounded by " Shimon ".

The typical Spaghetti Western team was made up of an Italian director, Italo-Spanish technical staff, and a cast of Italian, Spanish, German and American actors, sometimes a fading Hollywood star and sometimes a rising one like the young Clint Eastwood in three of Sergio Leone's films.

There he meets Sergey Golovko, a rising star in the KGB hierarchy, and eventually becomes entangled in a complex web related to both the race to develop " Star Wars " space-based defensive technology and engineer another defection, this time compromising the KGB director to save the CIA's highest informant in the USSR, Agent CARDINAL, better known as Colonel Misha Filitov.

Despite tangles with the law and a disastrous tour of music halls in the United Kingdom, Keaton was a rising star in the theater.

After leaving the CFU, Weir made his first major independent film, the short feature Homesdale ( 1971 ), an offbeat black comedy which co-starred rising young actress Kate Fitzpatrick and musician and comedian Grahame Bond, who came to fame in 1972 as the star of The Aunty Jack Show ; Weir also played a small role, but this was to be his last significant screen appearance.

At the age of 37, he was perceived as a rising star in the Republican Party and frontrunner for the presidential nomination in 1940.

His next film, The Thing ( 1982 ), is notable for its high production values, including innovative special effects by Rob Bottin, special visual effects by matte artist Albert Whitlock, a score by Ennio Morricone and a cast including rising star Kurt Russell and respected character actors such as Wilford Brimley, Richard Dysart, Charles Hallahan, Keith David, and Richard Masur.

* Madison Brengle, rising tennis star playing for the Delaware Smash

The Old Norse together with the Anglo-Saxon evidence point to an astronomical myth, the name referring to a star, or a group of stars, and the Anglo-Saxon in particular points to the morning star as the herald of the rising Sun ( in Crist Christianized to refer to John the Baptist ).

The advertising campaign paid the rising star between $ 5 – 7 million over two years.

The popular Mona Keijzer, the rising star within the party, received 26 % of the votes and announced that she will closely collaborate with Van Haersma Buma during the election campaign prior to the Dutch general election on 12 September 2012.

In the tenth FN national congress in 1997, Mégret stepped up his position in the party as its rising star and a potential leader following Le Pen.

Gettin Square also featured rising star David Wenham who demonstrated versatility with a string of critically acclaimed roles including the title role in Paul Cox's 1999 biopic Molokai: The Story of Father Damien and the 2001 thriller The Bank, directed by the politically conscious film director Robert Connolly.

During this period the band gained their first international recognition when rising British pop star Donovan, who saw them during his stint on the US West Coast in early 1966, mentioned the Airplane in his song " The Fat Angel ," which subsequently appeared on his Sunshine Superman LP.

Leading the merger effort were Elmer Kelm, the head of the Minnesota Democratic Party and founding chairman of the DFL party ; Elmer Benson, effectively the head of the Farmer-Labor Party by virtue of his leadership of its dominant left-wing faction ; and rising star Hubert H. Humphrey, who chaired the Fusion Committee that accomplished the union and then went on to chair its first state convention.

When Jack Warner realized James Dean was a rising star and a hot property, filming was switched to color stock and many scenes had to be reshot in color.

* rising star Mike Flex ( Perkins ),

The stars closest to the equator appeared to rise and fall the greatest distance, but each star circled back to its rising point each day.

While his first two years were viewed as solid but unspectacular, he emerged as a rising star in, winning the American League batting championship with a batting average of. 321, and also leading the league in doubles and walks, finishing sixth in the Most Valuable Player voting.

Her sister Olivia was already a rising star under her father's surname.

On the third voyage, a near-mutiny rising from a quarrel between Dutch and English crew members on the Half Moon had almost forced him to head the ship back to Amsterdam in Mid-Atlantic.

With the rising popularity of the Internet, there is a current vogue in China for coining English transliterations, for example, 粉丝 ／ 粉絲 fěnsī " fans ", 黑客 hēikè " hacker " ( lit.

In 1569 there was a major Catholic rising in the North ; the goal was to free Mary, marry her to Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, and put her on the English throne.

They included " a pleasant conceit of Vere, earl of Oxford, discontented at the rising of a mean gentleman in the English court, circa 1580.

The major geographical changes during this time period included the emergence of the Strait of Bosphorus and Skagerrak during glacial epochs, which respectively turned the Black Sea and Baltic Sea into fresh water, followed by their flooding ( and return to salt water ) by rising sea level ; the periodic filling of the English Channel, forming a land bridge between Britain and the European mainland ; the periodic closing of the Bering Strait, forming the land bridge between Asia and North America ; and the periodic flash flooding of Scablands of the American Northwest by glacial water.

Patterning it after the liberal arts colleges of New England, the College's founders resolved " that the institution be at first a classical and English high school, rising into a college as soon as the wants of the country demand.

In the Oxford English Dictionary a mountain is defined as " a natural elevation of the earth surface rising more or less abruptly from the surrounding level and attaining an altitude which, relatively to the adjacent elevation, is impressive or notable.

Note also that semivowels and approximants are not equivalent in all treatments, and in the English and Italian languages, among others, many phoneticians do not consider rising combinations to be diphthongs, but rather sequences of approximant and vowel.

The English word yes, for example, consists of a palatal glide followed by a monophthong rather than a rising diphthong.

The second rising of the English Civil War had culminated in the Battle of Preston during August 1648, with the Roundheads marching two hundred and fifty miles in twenty six days through foul weather and conditions, to defeat and ensure the Royalists would never re-form as an army.

A number of English players and commentators noted Bradman's discomfort in playing the short, rising delivery.

In April 1678, Churchill ( accompanied by his friend and rising politician, Sidney Godolphin ), departed for The Hague to negotiate a convention on the deployment of the English army in Flanders.

He took, in fact, an active part in the rising of 1559 and was commissioned by the Congregation to solicit the help of the English government through Sir Ralph Sadleir at Berwick.

It rises about north-west of Brown Willy on Bodmin Moor, not far from one of its tributaries rising at Dozmary Pool and Colliford Lake, passes Lanhydrock House, Restormel Castle and Lostwithiel, then broadens at Milltown before joining the English Channel at Fowey.

The structure, with a vertical outer retaining wall rising directly from the moat, is an extended usage of the ha-ha of English landscape gardening.

In his Contemplation de la nature ( Amsterdam, 1764 – 1765 ; translated into Italian, German, English and Dutch ), one of his most popular and delightful works, he sets forth, in eloquent language, the theory that all the beings in nature form a gradual scale rising from lowest to highest, without any break in its continuity.

* Vasily Smyslov vs Anatoly Karpov, USSR Championship, Leningrad 1971, English Opening / Queen's Gambit ( A34 ), 1 – 0 Karpov was the young rising star, but here he lasts for only 29 moves against Smyslov, who is 30 years older.

programs in Teacher Education ( 1999 ) and English ( 2000 ) have helped the College broaden its commitment to a rising graduate student population.

After National Service ( 1955 – 57 ) and reading English at St Catherine's College, Oxford University ( 1957 – 60 ) he worked as a teacher for many years, rising to Senior Lecturer at Doncaster College of Education.

Historically a part of Lancashire, Aigburth means " hill where oak trees grow " and is a hybrid place-name: the first part of the name is from Old Norse eikr " oak tree " ( which is found in Eikton in Cumbria and Eakring in Nottinghamshire ) and Old English beorg meaning " hill, tumulus " but here in the sense " rising ground ".

Prices for wine, rum and port were rising and an influx of English and Irish immigrants were particularly partial to beer.

Putting on shows is costly to venues as well, due to theatre license fees which by 2009 had risen 800 % in the preceding three years, and were eight times as high as fees in English cities, starting at £ 824 for a venue of up to 200 people and rising to £ 2, 472 for a venue of up to 5, 000 people.

Links is a Scottish term, from the Old English word hlinc: " rising ground, ridge ", describing coastal sand dunes and sometimes similar areas inland.

The Dutch colony of New Netherland was feeling increased pressure from the rising number of English colonists.

Among old castles are those of Lochslin, in the parish of Fearn, said to date from the 13th century, which, though ruinous, possesses two square towers in good preservation ; Balone, in the parish of Tarbat, once a stronghold of the Earls of Ross ; the remains of Dingwall Castle, their original seat ; and Eilean Donan in Loch Alsh, which was blown up by English warships during the abortive Jacobite rising in 1719.