Sentence examples for expansion upwards from inspiring English sources

This suggests that the rapid surface colonisation ability of the WS was an advantage under these conditions, but not under higher population densities and shorter transfer regimes where higher growth rates (and colony expansion upwards rather than across) were favoured.

These pathogens infect the main scaffold branches of the tree, inducing the formation of cankers with gum exudation and the expansion of the lesions upwards affects secondary branches, while downward expansion affects the trunk and roots [ 2].

Lam said that post deal the company is looking to raise upwards of $200 million for expansion into two or three new markets next year.

The hideously named Titans are part of Carter's plans for an expansion in the prison system that is going to cost upwards of £2.3bn.

Figure 1 Motion directions defined in the cardiac cycle: (a) radial movement in terms of contraction and expansion; (b) horizontal rotation is either clockwise or counterclockwise; and (c) vertical rotation is upwards or downwards.

In North Carolina, upwards of half a million people who would have received health coverage under Medicaid expansion are being denied.

It is shown that upwards travelling compression shocks always satisfy the stability conditions, in contrast to downwards travelling compression shocks, and all expansion shocks, which never do.

"Most of the large airports in the United States have upwards of $1 billion in debt outstanding apiece, and some of them go as high as $3 billion or $3.5 billion," as a result of expansion programs, he said.

Still, onwards and upwards.

Onwards and upwards, chaps.

The effect spills upwards.