A dollar invested in the health of a mother, a child or a community does more than strengthen the social protection floor ― it helps create an escalator of growth, an ascending stage from which families, communities, and countries can realize their ambitions.
Piano and the building's developer Irvine Sellar both stress that this will be an accessible monument, with the public able to ascend to viewing platforms from which to gaze all the way across London.
The direction of his argument, however, is unrelentingly stratospheric, ascending to a vantage point from which the ideologies of the past two centuries all look like variations on a single misguided theme.
He attracted some followers who identified him with the "angel ascending from the East," which is mentioned in chapter 7, verse 2 of the Revelation to John, the last book of the New Testament.
The soul must then try to liberate itself from the body and ascend to the fixed star from which it fell.
But when the show began, the stage lifted and hovered like a spaceship – or an Olafur Eliasson installation – above a sunken amphitheatre revealed hidden beneath from which models ascended via a spiral walkway.
This is not a mosque, but a shrine built in AD691 over the rock on which Abraham intended to sacrifice his son (Isaac in Genesis; presumed to be Ishmael in the Quran) and from which Muhammad ascended to heaven.
The entry is via a long and dramatic bridge to a viewing platform, from which one ascends a staircase into the house.
Black, Azov, Caspian and Aral Seas, from which adults ascend the rivers to spawn (Sokolov & Vasilev, 1989).
Brain-lesioning and electrophysiological studies in cats have revealed that the micturition is reflex-like mediated by a spinobulbospinal circuitry, the ascending limb of which projects from the sacral spinal cord to the pons, which thereupon sends excitatory signals via the descending limb back to the sacral spinal cord, resulting in micturition (de Groat and Wickens 2013).
When it was dark, we ascended to the main worship hall, from which golden Buddhas shone like suns.
