Upstream in sentence

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They receive inputs from thousands of upstream partners and compute their own electrical outputs, which then, if they pass a certain threshold, will go to thousands of downstream partners.

Salmon swim upstream to get to their spawning grounds, and lancet flukes commandeer a passing ant, crawl into its brain, and drive it up a blade of grass like an all-terrain vehicle.

And of course, as you go back upstream, the components get smaller and therefore cheaper.

I found out that advances in science rarely come upstream from an ability to stand at a blackboard and conjure images from unfolding mathematical propositions and equations.

And the third one said, "I think the bridge does exist, but the dam upstream of the bridge was closed, so the river should actually have been dry, so this doesn't make sense."

In the next step, we built the network around these companies, so we took all the TNCs' shareholders, and the shareholders' shareholders, etc., all the way upstream, and we did the same downstream, and ended up with a network containing 600,000 nodes and one million links.

The water was clear running over sand, and we turned and we began to make our way upstream.

I'm doing this because we need this information to benchmark this near-pristine wilderness before upstream development happens.

The important thing is, we put in place a system that worked, and it's an approach that I call an upstream approach.

She's swimming away from them upstream, rescuing children as she goes, and they shout to her, "Where are you going?

I would argue, though, that if we were to use science as our guide, that we would find an upstream approach is absolutely necessary.

So it's clear that these factors, these upstream issues, do matter.

That leads to a second phenomenon that I call the "don't ask, don't tell" approach to upstream issues in healthcare.

In a recent survey done in the U.S. among physicians, over 1,000 physicians, 80 percent of them actually said that they know that their patients' upstream problems are as important as their health issues, as their medical problems, and yet despite that widespread awareness of the importance of upstream issues, only one in five doctors said they had any sense of confidence to address those issues, to improve health where it begins.

Let's see if we can discover some patterns in our data about our patients' lives and see if we can identify an upstream cause, and then, as importantly, can we align the resources to be able to address them?

We can also make sure that these schools certify a backbone of the upstream approach, and that's the community health worker.

We can all invest in making sure that we improve the allocation of resources upstream, but at the same time work together and show that we can move healthcare upstream.

It was covered in concrete to prevent mudslides, and somehow we saw a sort of river in it, and we imagined this river to be a river in Japanese style with koi carp swimming upstream.

So as a great physicist once said, there's these little upstream eddies of biology that create order in this rapid torrent of entropy.

So as the universe dissipates energy, there's these upstream eddies that create biological order.

We're moving upstream, closer to the problem and closer to the solution.

In fact, there's a fence quite upstream of this threshold, beyond which you are in a danger zone.

Roundtree is working hard to make it sound fresh but he's swimming upstream.

Encouraging new investments in low-pollution, energy- and resource-efficient industries would lead to greener development, spur investments in related upstream and downstream manufacturing and services, and build an international competitive advantage in a global sunrise industry.

So, after all the tourists that irrigate this poor region with precious income leave the viewing platforms below the falls, authorities close the sluice gates that dam the White Water River on the dangerously low upstream reservoir, and the falls cease.

They should start by recognizing that as long as upstream infrastructure remains in the hands of often-inefficient state-owned enterprises, some downstream sectors will have to bear higher costs.

Flash floods in recent years in two Indian frontier states – Himachal Pradesh and Arunachal Pradesh – served as an ugly reminder of China’s lack of information-sharing on its upstream projects.

Local authorities in Yunnan province, however, are considering damming the Salween in the quake-prone upstream region.

Recent studies indicate that the net effects of automation on employment, achieved through upstream industry linkages and demand spillovers, have been positive.

Meanwhile, China’s announcement of three new dam projects on the Brahmaputra, the main river running through northeastern India and Bangladesh, has prompted the Indian government to advise China to “ensure that the interests of downstream states are not harmed” by the upstream works.

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