rise to the occasion
rise to the challenge

In the second set she really rose to the occasion.

I will try to rise to the occasion of being a good son.

As Americans always do, they are rising to the occasion.

You want to step your own game up and rise to the occasion.

Give the American people a chance to save a life, and they usually rise to the occasion.

Everybody has a chance to step up, and a lot of guys rose to the occasion.

In return, she had to make some kind of effort to rise to the occasion.

When you put him in an older age group, he always rose to the occasion.

But a man could only rise to the occasion so many times in a day.

"But once the performance started, I had the sense that people really rose to the occasion."