The United States is prosecuting suspected pirates who have attacked American vessels, and we and our partners continue to offer financial aid and tangible, practical support to build judicial capacity in the region.The increase in the sophistication of attacks, and the dramatic upswing in the size of ransoms demanded and the amount of money paid to pirates, is alarming.
After a dramatic upswing in donations, The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund set a record on Tuesday, surpassing the $8.03 million collected in last year's campaign, also a record.
The dramatic upswing in prices in 2007-08 turned attention toward poor consumers as many countries struggled with food riots, mounting malnutrition, and the adoption of grain self-sufficiency policies.
Testifying before the House subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, Under Secretary of State Robert M. Kimmitt noted "a dramatic upswing in the prospects for a peaceful settlement" between the guerrilla coalition and the Cambodian Government.
And as Lustig lucidly wrote in "Fat Chance," his compelling 2012 book that looked at the causes of our diet-induced health crisis, it's become clear that obesity itself is not the cause of our dramatic upswing in chronic disease.
Deutsche Bank, for example, declared this "historic verdict" justified a dramatic upswing in their India market investments.
The surge in greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane irrefutably mirrors the dramatic upswing in industrial emissions, both of which track rising temperatures.
Thus, the relationship between the aforementioned social events and the dramatic upswing in ECMO use in Taiwan following 2006 is more than a mere statistical relationship.
MPs report an upswing in demand for surgery slots.
I haven't seen any major upswing in demand since the whole Iraq thing kicked off".
Some doctors report an upswing in demand from menopausal women unable to find other sources of relief.
