His head barely rose above the table.

Because in early Anglo-Latin writing, paterfamilias (" head of a family, householder ") usually referred to a ceorl, Donald A. Bullough suggests that Alcuin's family was of cierlisc status: i. e., free but subordinate to a noble lord, and that Alcuin and other members of his family rose to prominence through beneficial connections with the aristocracy.

When they opened the bag to show the guards, it appeared no longer to hold her head but to be full of rose petals.

In 1921, he rose in the Bureau of Investigation to deputy head, and in 1924, the Attorney General made him the acting director.

Although his writings on Jewish law and ethics were met with acclaim and gratitude from most Jews even as far off as Spain, Iraq and Yemen, and he rose to be the revered head of the Jewish community in Egypt, there were also vociferous critics of some of his rulings and other writings particularly in Spain.

It has small, dark " rose " ears which are soft and folded back against the head unless held semi-erect in excitement.

Saddam formally rose to power in 1979, though he had been the de facto head of Iraq for several years prior ( see Succession ).

The act ended when a giant cube head rose from the back of the stage.

Siegel found work in the Warner Bros. film library after meeting producer Hal Wallis, and later rose to head of the Montage Department, where he directed thousands of montages, including the opening montage for Casablanca.

Pergami soon rose to the head of Caroline's household, and managed to get his sister, Angelica, Countess of Oldi, appointed as Caroline's lady-in-waiting.

Much later in the 19th century, the African American Galveston civil rights leader Norris Wright Cuney rose to become the head of the Texas Republican Party and became one of the most important Southern black leaders of the century.

By 1924, Chiang became the head of the Whampoa Military Academy, and rose to prominence as Sun's successor as head of the KMT.

Kirov rose through the Communist Party ranks to become head of the Party organization in Leningrad.

Morales rose to power as the head of a trade union of coca growers.

He rose no further ; others were repeatedly promoted over him to the head position of Kapellmeister.

Against the wall hangs the dosser of her canopy of estate, with the tester above her head ( the Tudor rose at its centre ) supported on cords from the ceiling.

According to one legend, during the Dreamtime Karora lay sleeping in the earth when from his head rose a tall pole called a tnatantja.

When Anne came to the throne after William's death in 1702, the Duke of Marlborough, together with Sidney Godolphin, the first Earl of Godolphin, rose to head the government, partly as a result of his wife's friendship with the queen.

Alexander Jannaeus ' son, Hyrcanus II, had scarcely reigned three months when his younger brother, Aristobulus II, rose in rebellion, whereupon Hyrcanus advanced against him at the head of an army of mercenaries and his Pharisee followers: " NOW Hyrcanus was heir to the kingdom, and to him did his mother commit it before she died ; but Aristobulus was superior to him in power and magnanimity ; and when there was a battle between them, to decide the dispute about the kingdom, near Jericho, the greatest part deserted Hyrcanus, and went over to Aristobulus.

He gradually rose in rank until he was appointed, in 1830, head of the office, with a salary of £ 1900, raised in 1836 to £ 2000.

Nakasone rose through the LDP's ranks, becoming Minister of Science in 1959 under the government of Nobusuke Kishi, then Minister of Transport in 1967, head of the Agency of Defense in 1970, Minister of International Trade and Industry in 1972 and Minister of Administration in 1981.

Returning to council he rose to become head of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.

Two more electric shocks were applied, and at conclusion eyewitnesses reported, Bob Considine among them, that smoke rose from her head in the chamber.

Then Sullavan rose from her seat and doused Fonda from head to foot with a pitcher of ice water.

He was educated at St Paul's School, quitting it at seventeen to enter the board of trade as a junior supplementary clerk, from which grade he rose eventually to be the assistant-secretary to the finance department of the office.

He became an assistant accountant in the Colonial Treasury in 1864 and rose rapidly and became head of the Attorney-General's department in 1878.

However, unemployment rose dramatically during his first administration, as did crime rates, in part because many of his layoffs were centered in the police department ( with 1, 500 terminations by 1981 ).

The results were impressive ; morale significantly rose in the department and there was the first increase in the ranks in ten years.

He rose to prominence within the party as secretary of its research department from 1920 and served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health in the short-lived Labour government of 1924.

He came to Brockport as a Mathematics teacher, and eventually rose to the Head of that department, a position he occupied until his retirement in 1935.

His initial career was in the BBC sports department, and he rose through the ranks to become the Head of Sport in the late 1970s.

Finley-Day rose to become deputy managing editor of IPC's girls ' comics department, but quit to become a freelance writer.

By 1983 he rose to the rank of department head.

He joined the Communist Party of Ukraine in 1958 and rose through the ranks of the party and its agitprop department.

* Jeff Peek, a leading financial institutions expert, rose through the Merrill Lynch Investment Banking department and was appointed to head the Merrill Lynch asset management businesses.

Polikarpov stayed in Russia after the Russian Revolution and rose to become head of the technical department Dux Aircraft factory in 1923.

After graduating, he joined the City of Toronto's clerk's department and rose to the position of protocol officer ( public relations director ).

Corruption and rot within the police department also rose during Akins ' tenure as Commissioner.

* 1946 Ben Duffy, who started in the agency's mailroom and rose to head the media department, becomes president.

He began his career with Corel as a developer and, with the help of his mentor Michael Cowpland, rose quickly through the ranks, eventually heading the engineering department and becoming President and Chief executive officer following Cowpland's resignation in 2000.

He then reported to the destroyer USS Charles H. Roan ( DD-853 ), where he rose from " boot ensign " to weapons department head.

The son of a merchant, he early showed ability, and entered the ministry of finance, where he rose rapidly ; in 1784, at the time of the renewal of the arrangements with the tax-farmers-general, he was practically chief in that department and made terms advantageous to the national exchequer.

The brokerage was acquired by Johnson and Higgins Insurance Co., and Coe rose to become a manager of the adjusting ( claims ) department in the New York City office of the maritime insurer.

In May 1914 the name of the commune became officially L ' Haÿ-les-Roses ( meaning " L ' Haÿ the roses ") in honour of Roseraie du Val-de-Marne, the renowned rose garden created in 1899 by Jules Gravereaux, one of the founders of the Bon Marché department store in Paris.

He eventually rose to the rank of professor, and served many administrative roles, including department chair, dean, vice president for academic affairs, and provost.

Under Abbasid regime Khalid rose to the headship of the department of Finance ( diwan al-Kharaj ) This department was concerned with Taxation and Land Tenure.