Sentence examples for approached the upper from inspiring English sources

The jungle had taught him "the value of human survival against our plant and animal antagonists," he later wrote, and he approached the upper atmosphere with the same Manichaean zeal.

Although water samples were highly transparent, turbidity approached the upper limit of class AA/A/B water quality standards in Connecticut (5 NTU over ambient levels; State of Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection 2013 regulations for Clean Water Act purposes).

Storm warnings were issued on August 17 and 18 as the system initially approached the upper Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas, but the system's west-southwest turn prevented a direct United States landfall.

Finally, although the colour change was very mild, the ROFT was considered positive in one healthy dog (group 6), with a serum TG concentration that approached the upper reference limit.

Median Bcl-XL expression in the OSCC tumour samples was 3450 [95% C.I. 3248 3705] which approached the upper limit of Bcl-XL expression in normal OCSE 95% C.I.; we defined this as borderline overexpression.

Setting the chronometer for five minutes, we started retracting the bronchoscope as the leading edge of the charcoal spot approached the upper part of the trachea, then marking on the bronchoscope the final point where the spot reached the internal tip of the ETT, or at the end of the five minutes period, and then measuring the distance between those two points.

To determine the threshold value that most closely approached the upper-left corner of the ROC curves, we visually inspected the curves (Fig. 1) and compared them with the probability table generated by the logistic regression analysis inherent in the generation of the ROC curve (table not shown).

Current electronic devices are approaching the upper limits in processing speed, and they rely on etching a pattern into a semiconductor to create a chip or integrated circuit.

Fitch said it expected that by 2015 debt would now be "approaching the upper limit of the level consistent with the UK retaining its 'AAA' status".

Global warming could well have serious adverse societal and ecological impacts by the end of this century, especially if globally-averaged temperature increases approach the upper end of the IPCC projections.

As a result, the gas separation performance of TMBPA modified poly aryl ether ketone) approaches the upper bound of the corresponding gas pairs.