Instead of ascending in orderly fashion, humans begin to behave like demented and exhausted marathon runners.
There was a dedicated children's library, with books ascending in age range from the floor level upward.
The firm's delinquency rate, traditionally about 0.5 percent of its portfolio, began sharply ascending in mid-2007.
But the Eameses' contemporaries, Isamu Noguchi and George Nakashima, are ascending in value because of their attractive idiosyncrasies as artists or craftsmen.
In 1862, the English meteorologist James Glaisher discovered the extent of the breathable atmosphere by ascending in a balloon until he passed out.
Both were daring young stars ascending in the Soviet firmament until the state intervened and censured them in the 1930's.
His lips parted to say something, but, before he could speak, we heard a rumble of engines ascending in the air out of the south.
Mr. Greenberg took his elevator up to get her, ascending in his open-air cage past the flames and thick smoke on the 17th floor.
Quickly ascending in rank, he served as both presiding officer of the council and as lieutenant governor from 1818 to 1835.
When it comes to business coaching, "for most people that are ascending in their careers there are fewer people that you can speak with honestly who have no agenda.
The music starts simply: clearly defined, pure, then very rapidly starts to complicate, to elaborate - turning on itself, twisting around its central theme, almost, you imagine, like a spiral staircase ascending in circles, or like a seashell..
