1.   He was no longer frustrated in his quest for a UIL title, and the smudge that clouded his otherwise sparkling coaching career would finally be wiped away.

2.   His fellow graduates were going off to begin sparkling careers, but Bush spent the whole summer loafing around Beijing, where his father was then the American envoy.

3.   In a sparkling career that has spanned two decades, Mandac holds the honor of being the only Filipino to ever star at the Metropolitan Opera of New York.

4.   Their stars have begun to slip into the back side of their sparkling careers.

5.   This is called closure in sports, and Nelson seemed as ready as anyone to put behind this sordid chapter in his otherwise sparkling career.

6.   Among the women, Jenny Thompson ended her sparkling career with three golds at Sydney.

7.   Foreign Minister Shimon Peres wants to cap a sparkling career as secretary general of the United Nations, a senior official said Wednesday.

8.   World War II ended his sparkling career as a mathematics and physics student.