Before the House of Orange ascended to the throne, the Netherlands had long been a republic.
Earlier this year he ascended to the CEO spot, and soon he will add the chairman title.
Yet earlier this week, the blogosphere exploded with declarations that the Material Girl had ascended to billionaire status.
When he returned to the states in 1898 he was elected Governor of New York and quickly ascended to the presidency.
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Looking back to 1980 as Reagan ascended to the White House, the dollar was weak as evidenced by a broad rally in commodities.
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Andrew Johnson, who ascended to the presidency after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, was tried and acquitted in the last presidential impeachment trial 131 years ago.
It should be noted that no coach has ever had as much power as Paterno, but plenty have ascended to a nearly untouchable level of influence.
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Seeing the spot where Mohammed ascended to heaven was an inspirational experience that I shall never forget, and I count myself privileged to have seen it.
After being stuck at No. 3 in the world for four years behind two of the greatest ever to play, Djokovic also ascended to the No. 1 ranking.
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Mr. Coben, who had written seven Myron Bolitar novels by then, quickly ascended to the ranks of best-selling crime novelists such as Michael Connelly, David Baldacci and Janet Evanovich.
In 1994 he ascended to chief financial officer and became president in 1999 after reportedly participating in a coup that unseated former chief executive Jon Corzine, now governor of New Jersey.
"Left unchecked, power generation and heat would have limited the devices we build today and the ones we could imagine in the future, " says Otellini, who recently ascended to the chief executive post at Intel .
For a lot of Kenyans, ODM was something more of a savior, and they believe that if ODM ascended to power, then probably the level of the fighting we are seeing right would have been dealt with.
Then Hitler ascended to power.
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"Left unchecked, power generation and heat would have limited the devices we build today and the ones we could imagine in the future, " says Otellini, who recently ascended to the chief executive post at Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ).
After being driven through the streets of broken glass and police lines, he ascended to a suite on an upper floor at the Westin Hotel and flipped on local news, where he saw for the first time the scenes of chaos that had raged all around his hotel earlier that day.
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Walking to the lobby's north end, he ascended the curving staircase to the dress circle, following the same path the Lincolns took to their box.
Jeremy Lin, the 23-year-old Knicks guard, has ascended from afterthought to New York folk hero in half a week.
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That afternoon, Lanier ascended the stairs to his studio, picking his way past an overflowing garbage can and a forest of microphone stands, and seated himself before a tall golden harp.
The altitude was difficult to deal with as we ascended these peaks without much time to get acclimatized.
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By then, a helicopter was on its way -- from which a paramedic at one point descended to check on Jack, and into which she ascended on her way eventually to a nearby hospital.
The chapter on surviving at high altitude, for example, tells the story of James Glaisher and Henry Coxwell, who, in 1862, ascended in a balloon to an altitude of about 10, 000 metres (33, 000 feet).
The Vatican itself owns what it believes to be a fragment of the table from the Last Supper and marble stairs that are the same ones Jesus ascended on His way to appear before Pontius Pilate.
There was a time two or three years ago when Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld and some other people in the Pentagon were very much the ascended influences in the run up to the Iraq invasion.
He won a football scholarship to a small Midwestern college, earned a law degree, and ascended rapidly from the city council of the small town of West Miami, to Florida's state legislature, to the Senate.
The Tahoe Rim Trail Association has online bulletins about trail conditions, kept up-to-date by hiker reports, so a few minutes on the Internet would have informed me that we were in for up to 5ft of snow as the trail ascended above 8, 000ft.
Later in the afternoon, Cheney, the vice president-elect, ascended a stage at Washington's George Washington University for his formal "Salute to America's Veterans, " an afternoon of tributes to veterans of World War II and the Korean, Vietnam and Persian Gulf conflicts.
While journalists ascended Snowdon by mountain railway, Lord Coe and the team of climbers trekked their way to the top.
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Sean Connery also sported a kilt, I assume correctly draped, though whether supported or unsupported I neglected to ask, when he led the parade in 2002, the first time it ascended Avenue of the Americas.
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