The word "lifting" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a noun to refer to the act of raising something, or an adjective to refer to something that is being raised. For example: The lifting of the heavy sofa gave the movers quite a workout.
Iran: Putin insisted lifting a five-year embargo on the delivery of air defence missiles to Iran did not undermine international sanctions since the Russian ban was voluntary.
A big name and big game player and already a legend but lifting the continent's biggest prize in Sydney would be something else.
Some believe it may be time to call Zanu-PF's bluff by lifting sanctions and testing whether the party can deliver on its promises, with no one else to blame.
Claims during the trial by the News of the World's former royal editor Clive Goodman that Coulson had written "a treatment of his life" have been dismissed by those who know him, who say a book lifting the lid on his years with the Tory party was more likely.
After several months the censors gave approval to the book, also lifting a ban on Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter, and it was released through formal publication channels.
Fadlullah Wilmot, head of international programs at Islamic Relief Australia, said he supported benchmarks and hoped the government would ensure the government "achieve the goal of lifting the poorest of the poor out of poverty, especially targeting women the disabled and other vulnerable and marginalised communities".
In total, around three-quarters of the cash giveaway goes to households in the top half of the income distribution and just 1% of the cost of the policy is actually spent on lifting people out of income tax.
The sea licks the lip of the rock, the constant, repeated, slightly shifting pattern of sound; partially sunk bottle lifting lightly in the transparent, sun-mottled sea.
Research around lifting local authorities' borrowing caps estimates that an extra £7bn of investment in homes would generate 23,500 jobs, according to the Chartered Institute of Housing.
That would be the starting point, you'd be in a job, and we need you to work … Everything we are doing is about lifting the tide so that we can get more people into jobs".
"Much of the good news that had relieved market stress over lifting the debt ceiling was baked into a violent rally in the prior session lifting the benchmark S&P 500 index to within spitting distance of another all-time high" on Wednesday, said Andrew Wilkinson, chief economic strategist at Miller Tabak & Co in New York.
