Poor John's rise continued to be meteoric.

As soon as the Committee of Public Safety heard of the victory Napoleon became a Brigadier General, the start of his meteoric rise to power.

In spite of its early meteoric rise, church membership has declined sharply over the past eight decades, according to the church's former treasurer, J. Edward Odegaard.

Terence V. Powderly | Terence Powderly, Grand Master Workman of the Knights of Labor during its meteoric rise and precipitous decline.

Bradman's meteoric rise from bush cricket to the Australian Test team took just over two years.

Paul's meteoric rise to power is greatly facilitated by his association with the Mahdi legend.

Roosevelt later compared Long's meteoric rise in popularity to that of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

The young French portrait artist, who had a meteoric rise, was noted for his bold technique and modern teaching methods, and his influence would be pivotal to Sargent during the period from 1874 to 1878.

" A major event in his meteoric rise to success was his appearance at a cutting contest in 1933 at Morgan's bar in New York City that included Waller, Johnson and Willie " The Lion " Smith.

During the network's first decade on the air, Cinemax had also aired some original music programming, during the mid-to-late 1980s, upon the meteoric rise in popularity of MTV, Cinemax tried its hand at airing music videos by airing an interstitial between films called Max Tracks, it also ran music specials under the banner Cinemax Sessions during that same time period.

In the 90s, the meteoric rise of Mamonas Assassinas, which sold more than 3 million copies of its only CD ( a record, by Brazilian standards ) came to a tragic end when the band's plane crashed, killing all five members of the band, the pilot and the co-pilot.

Following the meteoric rise to popularity of NAQT, the decline into irrelevance of College Bowl, and longstanding complaints, justified or not, about the difficulty of ACF, a decision was made in 2001 to focus great effort on the accessibility of Academic Competition Federation tournaments.

Recent years have witnessed a meteoric rise in Mail Art's online presence.

This performance helped make his reputation as a capable tactician, and it fueled his meteoric rise to military and political power.

The period 1945 – 50 saw a meteoric rise in Bronstein's development, as he reached the World Chess Championship challenge match, in 1951.

Following this game, he had a meteoric rise, winning the 1957 U. S. Open on tiebreaks, winning the 1957 – 58 U. S. ( Closed ) Championship ( and all seven later championships he played in ), qualifying for the Candidates Tournament and becoming in 1958 the world's youngest grandmaster at age 15.

Its meteoric rise was entirely volume-based.

A new management team in the early 1980s seeking to cut costs immediately changed the signature burger recipe, introducing frozen burger patties, and eliminating altogether the flagship menu items of the Big Twin and the Big Deluxe that had sustained Hardee's meteoric rise.

His meteoric rise over the previous years had made him some enemies in local society, who now took the opportunity to spread spread slanderous rumours about him at court.

It launched Nixon's meteoric rise to the Senate ( 1950 ) and the vice presidenncy ( 1952 ).

The Geffen label's meteoric rise to prominence within the year proved a bittersweet success.

During World War I, Hines experienced a meteoric rise in rank as he was promoted from major to lieutenant colonel in May 1917, then to colonel ( November 1917 ), brigadier general ( April 1918 ), and, in August 1918, to temporary major general — four grades in 16 months.

Vladimir Putin's meteoric rise from relative obscurity to the Russian presidency in the course of a few short months of 1999 has been attributed to his intimacy with the " Family " as a protege of Berezovsky and Yumashev.

Tun Hussein ’ s meteoric rise continued when on August 13, 1973 he succeeded the late Tun Dr Ismail as the Deputy Prime Minister.

Other key executives responsible for the company's meteoric growth in the late 80s and early 90s were Ross A. Cooley, another former IBM associate, who served for many years as SVP of GM North America ; Michael Swavely, who was the company's chief marketing officer in the early years, and eventually ran the North America organization, later passing along that responsibility to Mr. Cooley, when Swavely retired.

Egyptian weapons made from meteoric iron in about 3000 BC were highly prized as " Daggers from Heaven ".

Ozawa's skill in behind-the-scenes maneuvers led to a meteoric rise in power within the LDP, although there were also many factions who turned against him.

Events were superseded by the meteoric rise of controversial federal politician Pauline Hanson.

The competing theories were ( a ) volcanic eruptions blasting holes in the Moon, ( b ) meteoric impact, ( c ) a theory known as the Welteislehre developed in Germany between the two World Wars which suggested glacial action creating the craters.

The meteoric water infiltrates to depths of a few kilometers ( miles ) where it is heated to at least by hot rock near geologically young intrusions.

For a few years he enjoyed a meteoric celebrity, including participating in a recording of William Walton's Façade with Edith Sitwell .< ref > Lambert's best known composition is The Rio Grande ( 1927 ) for piano and alto soloists, chorus, and orchestra of brass, strings and percussion.

There are only few places on earth where native iron can be found which is not of meteoric origin.

Both gateways have been sealed from the Lancre side by standing stones made from thunderbolt iron, a form of meteoric ore which is one of the few sources of magnetism on the Disc ; humans, but not Elves ( except in exceptional circumstances ), may pass through them.

This supports the notion that they grew in place, since if their origin was related to volcanic or meteoric episodes one would expect layers of spherules as a " record in time " for each event.

He also noted that if the copper particles came from the green fireballs, then they could not be conventional meteorites, since copper was never found in dust of meteoric origin.

That we still possess any such artifacts of meteoric iron may be ascribed to the vagaries of climate, and the increased corrosion-resistance conferred on iron by the presence of nickel.

Her meteoric rise up the Justice Department's " greasy pole " saw her hotly tipped to become chief judge in due course, but she denied any real ambitions in this direction.

In his brief but meteoric career, Sultan Khan rose to the top of the chess world, playing on even terms with the world's best players.

He is one of the least known Australian players, so meteoric and short was his career.

Enrichment of CaCO3 in the meteoric waters is due to the addition of CO2 either through interaction with the atmosphere, or infiltrating through organic compound containing soil layers.

It is now known that meteoric iron, or iron-nickel alloy, was used by various ancient peoples thousands of years before the Iron Age.

* In the series ' beginning, Hikaru and Minmay's relationship starts before his joining U. N. Spacy and her meteoric rise to stardom.

Flowing downward through cracked rock at about one foot a year, the meteoric water migrates to estimated minimum depths of 4, 500 to and achieves high temperatures in the deep section of the flow path before rising along fault and fracture conduits.