1.   Bush has demonstrated his abilities and attained new stature as a convincing commander in chief.

2.   But decades before he attained such stature, Carver studied art at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa.

3.   Despite some heavy promotion by a US-based apparel company, Ryan Giggs has not attained the stature he might deserve on the global stage.

4.   He perhaps stood out most of all for his determination to excel, and for how much he reveled in whatever stature he attained.

5.   Now, as a winning Super Bowl coach, Belichick has attained a stature that for years was thought to be beyond his personality.

6.   That would also take care of the problem that occurred in another of those imports, a film that attained critical stature.

7.   Thus many Dallas art patrons see the Nasher collection as the last, best local hope for the institution to attain national stature.

8.   Vargas might never attain Chavez stature in their eyes regardless of his accomplishments.

9.   Why not expand the list to include offenses that also irk us but so far have not attained sufficient stature to merit death as the punishment?