Sentence examples for grows ever higher from inspiring English sources
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.
As cities get bigger, international travel becomes easier, and antibiotic resistance increases, the risk of a major pandemic grows ever higher.
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.
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.
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.
And the stakes grow ever higher, as cities swell.
