There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation. And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it's clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.

Rising inequality can create a more highly leveraged economy, and it can then make the economy vulnerable to a crash like 2008.

Since he's come back to Kentucky, he's been super. I think he's rising up at the right time.

The frequencies of the notes in a scale—do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do—sound to us like they’re rising in equal steps. But objectively their vibrational frequencies are rising by equal multiples. We perceive pitch logarithmically.

Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.

I see women as oppressed, but I don't see them as victims; I see them rising all the time. I see them as very strong.

I feel my temperature rising. Help me, I'm flaming, I must be a hundred and nine.

I think it smells good, like rising bread, but some don't like it,

Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar.

Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear all the greater because I could not analyse it, and seeming to concern a stealthily approaching menace; not death, but some nameless, unheard-of thing inexpressibly more ghastly and abhorrent.