Sentence examples for growing ever higher from inspiring English sources

To the left, One World Trade Center, its glitter growing ever higher.

He was writing about a book, "Leviathan": his ink bottle had left imprints on the desk's leather inlay, and he stored his notes on a shelf in cardboard folders, carefully labelled — the pile of folders growing ever higher.

Sandbag fortifications are growing ever higher around banks and offices.

The huge stockpiles of coal are growing ever higher as factories and power plants cut back.

Economists tell us that all systems self-organize around the dimensions of scarcity (think trees in the jungle's canopy growing ever higher in search of sunlight).

The ice will not just grow ever higher, however.

Bagehot started this week wondering whether this was the moment to call in vain for the head of Alastair Campbell, the former Mirror journalist who has grown ever higher and mightier as Tony Blair's chief spin doctor.

The state had to borrow to make payments to its pension system last year, and it has been considering borrowing $3.7 billion more with municipal bonds to make payments this year — though with sinking bond ratings, the cost of borrowing grows ever higher.

And while our ability to treat disease is better than ever before, the current outbreak of Ebola, and the first diagnosis of the virus outside of Africa, is reminding us that as our cities get bigger and international travel becomes easier, the risks involved in an outbreak grow ever higher.

Rather like a con man explaining the art of three-card monte — "Business nowadays is a confidence trick," Mr. Voysey says in the original version — the father coolly takes his scandalized son through the accounts, a house of cards that has grown ever higher on his thirty-year watch.

Presidents are frequently criticized for campaigning instead of governing, but in a highly polarized era without lasting Congressional majorities, the stakes every two years grow ever higher: witness the gridlock between the Democratic-controlled Senate and the Republican majority in the House.