He succeeded almost too well, because once she rose as if to charge, and he half wheeled his horse -- he was within fifty feet -- but she sank back.

The House of Bonaparte is an imperial and royal European dynasty founded by Napoleon I of France in 1804, a French military leader who rose to notability out of the French Revolution and transformed the French Republic into the First French Empire within five years of his coup d ' état.

According to the New Testament Jesus was crucified, died a physical death, was buried within a tomb, and rose from the dead three days later.

A former aide recalled that Ribbentrop threw the German Embassy into chaos due to his erratic personality: He rose, muttering bad-temperedly ... Dressed in his pyjamas, he received the junior secretaries and press attachés in his bathroom ... He scolded, threatened, gesticulated with his razor and shouted at his valet ... As he took his bath, he ordered people to be summoned from Berlin, accepted and cancelled, appointed and dismissed, and dictated through the door to a nervous stenographer ... He cursed people in their absence, calling them saboteurs and communists ... It was my task to put his calls through ; his valet stood within splashing distance holding a white telephone ... Ribbentrop believed only ministers ranked above him: everyone else, including his ambassadorial colleagues, had to kept waiting on the line.

A rose is a woody perennial of the genus Rosa, within the family Rosaceae.

EDS went public in 1968 and the stock price rose from $ 16 a share to $ 160 within days.

In order not to lose its sovereignty, the Portuguese Court moved the capital from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, which was the Portuguese Empire's capital between 1808 and 1821 and rose the relevance of Brazil within the Portuguese Empire's framework.

Meanwhile, debate rose within the RCC as to the purpose of these measures.

The Maloideae C. Weber was the apple subfamily, a grouping used by some taxonomists within the rose family, Rosaceae.

The National War Museum is located within Fort Saint Elmo, a focal point during the Great Siege that rose to prominence once again during World War II.

Moderate Party members like Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping rose to power, and Mao was marginalized within the party, leading him to initiate the Cultural Revolution in 1966.

Charles Bean, the official Australian war historian, noted that Monash was more effective the higher he rose within the Army, where he had greater capacity to use his skill for meticulous planning and organisation, and to innovate in the area of technology and tactics.

After releasing several singles and three albums within the Detroit music scene, the White Stripes rose to prominence in 2002, as part of the garage rock revival scene.

Unemployment rose drastically across the country during this period as part of prime minister Margaret Thatcher's battle against inflation as well as the modernisation process of Britain's industrial climate, but these areas were designated as Enterprise Zones and within a few years had been redeveloped.

In 1989 a completely new design was used to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the first issue of the sovereign coin – the obverse shows the Queen seated on the coronation throne holding the orb and sceptre, with the legend, while the reverse shows a crowned shield within a double rose and the legend.

The editors and authors of the Jewish Encyclopedia proved prescient in their choice of language, since within that same span of 25 years, English rose to become the dominant language of academic Jewish scholarship and among Jews worldwide.

In the late 1960s and the early 1970s, the tensions between the different communities in Belgium rose and there were disagreements within the liberal movement as well.

Until 1993, all these years use the Pistrucci reverse except for 1986 which used a gold version of the circulating Two Pound coin, and 1989 when a completely new design was used to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the first issue of the sovereign coin-the obverse shows the Queen seated on the coronation throne holding the orb and sceptre, with the legend, while the reverse shows a crowned shield within a double rose and the legend.

Mr. Eustis rose and observed that within a few days past the House were called upon to take notice of an event which perhaps would be more interesting to posterity than to the present generation ; the death of one of those illustrious patriots who, by a life devoted to his country, had bequeathed a name and an example to posterity which he would not attempt to describe.

Though born to Christian parents, prior to conversion he migrated into a Theosophical society ( the occult gnostic group which became precursor of the New Age movement, popular in England during that time ), and quickly rose in prominence within their ranks.

While not born into a hereditary leadership role within the Iroquois League, Brant rose to prominence due to his education, abilities and his connections to British officials.

The Schoharie Creek rose to record levels and was categorized as the 500 year flood causing massive destruction of roads, homes, and businesses within the town.

In response, the young men within Chang ' an also rose up and stormed Weiyang Palace, the main imperial palace.

Feith was terminated from that post because of questions that rose within the FBI as to whether he provided confidential material to an Israeli embassy official.

When he turned into the highway that led to the outskirts of the city and then rose toward home, he had to pull over to the curb and wait for a few minutes, sucking in air and squinting and blinking his eyes to clear them of tears.

A few years after his birth, his maternal uncle Theophilus rose to the powerful position of Patriarch of Alexandria.

In particular, this is true of a few gods who, at various times in history, rose to supreme importance in Egyptian religion.

In contrast, the novels of Scott's contemporary Jane Austen, once appreciated only by the discerning few ( including, as it happened, Sir Walter Scott himself ) rose steadily in critical esteem, though Austen, as a female writer, was still faulted for her narrow (" feminine ") choice of subject matter, which, unlike Scott, avoided the grand historical themes traditionally viewed as masculine.

A few days later six Nicaraguan cities rose in revolt.

Prices dropped 70 % over the next few years, to nearly US $ 20 per kilogram ; prices rose sharply again after tropical cyclone Hudah struck Madagascar in April 2000.

During the last few years of the Sui Dynasty, the rebellion that rose against it took many of China's able-bodied men from rural farms and other occupations, which in turn damaged the agricultural base and the economy further.

The reaction of other artists to the daunting force of Michelangelo was the dominating question in Italian art for the following few decades, and Raphael, who had already shown his gift for absorbing influences into his own personal style, rose to the challenge perhaps better than any other artist.

William was one of the few natives with a European education, and he quickly rose through the ranks.

Within a few years, the education budget rose from 16 billion to 50 billion DM, while one out of every three DM spent by the new government was devoted to welfare purposes.

Over the next few years, Walpole rose to become the leading minister.

He continued on to Chichen Itza, which he declared his Royal capital of Spanish Yucatán, but after a few months the locals rose up against him, the Spaniards were constantly attacked, and the Spanish force fled to Honduras.

A few months later, Zareh, son of Peroz rose in rebellion.

A survey of 15 – 18 year-old high school girls in Nadroga, Fiji found the self-reported incidence of purging rose from 0 % in 1995 ( a few weeks after the introduction of television in the province ) to 11. 3 % in 1998.

The scope for swifter cuts in interest rates was squeezed by an event that few had anticipated when Britain joined the ERM: based on OECD indices of consumer prices, inflation in Germany, which had been 2. 7 % in 1990, rose to 5. 1 % in 1992, whilst in Britain inflation fell from 7. 0 % to 4. 3 %.

A Persian Gulf war veteran who rose to stardom as a protégé of the rap impresario Master P, Tyler combined powerful, passionate vocals that would range from a conspiratorial whisper to vein-popping screams in the course of a few words, and was constantly accelerating and decelerating his delivery.

The river rose in just a few hours, sinking tethered narrowboats, flooding areas of Bengeworth, and threatening the 19th century Workman Bridge as static homes from a riverside caravan site broke up and became wedged in its arches.

Having rendered signal service to the King during his campaigns or their own expeditions against the enemies, Pra Rajwarin ( Thai: พระราชวร ิ นทร ์) and Pra Mahamontri rose so quickly in the noble ranks that a few years after, the former was created Chao Phraya Chakri, the rank of the Chancellor, while the latter became Chao Phraya Surasih.

In the course of a few years, the Commonwealth rose to force the Swedes out of Poland, ending the short-lived intrusions and campaigns.

A few rose species are sometimes grown for the ornamental value of their hips, such as Rosa moyesii, which has prominent large red bottle-shaped fruits.

Despite the scholarly consensus that ancient Dilmun encompasses three modern locations: ( 1 ) the eastern littoral of Arabia from the vicinity of modern Kuwait to Bahrain ; ( 2 ) the island of Bahrain ; ( 3 ) the island of Failaka east of Kuwait, few have taken into account the radically different geography of the basin represented by the Persian Gulf before its reflooding as sea levels rose about 6000 BCE ; the earliest known site is Qal ' at al-Bahrain which is dated no earlier than c. 2200 BC according to Flemming Hojlund.

In the early 21st century, a lot of gospel artists also recorded, though a few really rose to stardom.