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So you see, on the bottom, that rocket was supposed to go upward; somehow it ended going sideways.
Now, let your imagination go upward into space.
Think about this tree, rising upward into Redwood space, 325 feet, 32 stories, an individual living organism articulating its forms upward into space over long periods of time.
To us, when we look at a Redwood tree, it seems to be motionless and still, and yet Redwoods are constantly in motion, moving upward into space, articulating themselves and filling Redwood space over Redwood time, over thousands of years.
It's like scuba diving into a coral reef, except you're going upward instead of downward.
Redwoods have an enormous surface area that extends upward into space because they have a propensity to do something called reiteration.
This particular extra trunk is a meter across at the base and extends upward for 150 feet.
"Now, you think you know what's coming, Michael, You don't, OK?" (Laughter) He snips it, throws the tip over his shoulder, and then grabs the scrotum and pushes it upward, and then his head dips down, obscuring my view.
And there a builder; upward rise the arch of a church he builds, wherein that minister may speak the word of God, and lead a stumbling soul to touch the Christ.
We automatically throw the little nub of plastic upward.
I've invested in Pakistan for over seven years now, and those of you who've also worked there can attest that Pakistanis are an incredibly hard working population, and there is a fierce upward mobility in their very nature.
And you can see it's just a really spectacular extension of the limbs, exploding upward to actually just catch a dead piece of shrimp that I had offered it.
It has curves in two directions, one curve upward and opposite transverse curve down the other, so any kind of perturbation spreads the forces over the surface of this type of shape.
I don't understand why some of you (or many) have given this film upward of 8 stars out of 10.
Serious race-related social issues are wheeled on in contrived and opportunistic fashion in order to justify armed robbery, then they're ditched as soon as the film has to produce the inevitably conventional ending in which crime is punished, the LAPD turns out to be a bunch of caring, guilt-ridden liberals (tell that to Rodney King), and aspirational 'good' sista, Jada Pinkett Smith, follows the path of upward mobility out of the 'hood and into a world of middle-class self-indulgence opened up for her by her buppie bank-manager boyfriend.
Its depiction of the tragedy of company towns and lack of upward mobility is sketchy but moving.
They look like an army of criminals with their fists thrusting upward and chanting his name as if they had practiced to chant it in perfect succession beforehand.
In "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye", it's the one where the oblique upward camera angle captures Ralph Cotter over the garage pit right after he dumps the body of Vic Mason (Rhys Williams).
Note with what genius the actor begins in the high register and marches upward every higher toward what someone in rehearsal must have underlined as the key word.
Todd's openness and vulnerability contributed to his steep upward learning curve, and was essential to his success there.
In the 1920’s, Swedish economist Knut Wicksell defined it as the interest rate at which, economy-wide, desired investment equals desired savings, implying no upward pressure on consumer prices, resource prices, or wages as aggregate demand outruns supply, and no downward pressure on these prices as supply exceeds demand.
This suggests another reason why the US-Iran confrontation could lead to lower, not higher, prices: Trump and his Saudi allies now have a very strong political incentive to resist further upward pressure on oil prices.
Indeed, the historical evidence slams you over the head with the fact that, whereas government debt can drift upward inexorably for years, the end usually comes quite suddenly.
And, for many, upward mobility is beyond reach, even though the economy has begun to recover.
That meant diminishing upward pressure on the renminbi’s exchange rate.
As the death toll spirals upward and the full horror unfolds, much of the relief effort is on hold, unable to move ahead until the funds that have been promised arrive – a process that could take weeks or months.
In fact, China probably limited the increase this year after recognizing that the international community is becoming alarmed by the steep upward trajectory of its military build-up.
Looking at the 2017 data, there is no sign that business investment ticked upward under Trump.
In places where home prices have been rising rapidly, the upward trend may continue or level off for a while.
The currently available historical statistics show that in every year from 1982 to 2000, the initial estimate of the net international investment position was subsequently revised upward, as statisticians found overseas assets about which they previously had no way of knowing.
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