‘For best results, brush strokes should be in an upwardly direction.’
‘The American Avocet is a large shorebird with a bold black and white pattern on its back, long bluish legs, and a long, thin, upwardly curved bill.’
‘The belt support has a generally flat center section with outer sections that curve or angle upwardly.’
‘The positive, fresh, upwardly thrusting white arrow isn't going very far, having been headed off fairly abruptly by the downturn of the larger, brown, depressive element.’
‘He also failed to mention any increase in stamp duty land tax, even though this is likely - and is bound to upwardly affect the cost of commercial property transactions throughout our region.’
‘Under the plan, which is still being constructed, the government would share the cost on an upwardly rising scale depending on the size of the claims.’
‘The active principle of alcohol is a counter-force to the upwardly striving nature of the human spirit, temporarily stunting it.’
‘The temptation is to think that we are progressing forward in some sort of upwardly evolving movement toward perfection - the sort of naturalist philosophy which Teilhard de Chardin promoted.’
‘At first glance, the 5.2-metre work rises high above you, solid and upwardly spiralling.’
‘UK scientists are upwardly revising their estimates of the number of people likely to die from new variant CJD (vCJD, also known as ‘mad cow disease’).’
‘The bureau reported that jobless claims increased by 18,000, to 408,000 for the week ending April 21 from an upwardly revised 390,000 claims reported one week earlier.’
‘In a comment published on May 10, he pointed to a ‘perfect storm’ on the horizon threatening upwardly revised global growth expectations.’
‘This amount may however be upwardly adjusted closer to the time of auction, a representative of the bank's attorneys said yesterday.’
‘Alternatively, Jian comes from a hard-working and upwardly motivated city family who are concerned with providing Jian and his sister with a good education.’
‘The scales also have a type of mirror underneath them to upwardly reflect all the fluorescent light that gets emitted down towards it.’
‘Mr. Jagodich has progressed upwardly through the ranks at CIBC despite some lateral moves and travel requirements.’
‘It means a setback in the movement to upwardly harmonize regulations.’
‘Waiting in the wings was the elocutionist - soon to be taken up by those who sought to be upwardly socially mobile.’
‘Much higher values (of the order of 10%) are obtained from the revised order method, but these are likely to be even more upwardly biased.’
‘Two of the dilemmas the benefits committee faced, he said, are upwardly spiraling costs nationally for health care and prescriptions and, in Iowa, little competition due to a limited number of health insurance providers.’
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