Sentence examples for looking upstream from inspiring English sources

In seeking to address global health issues, we should look beyond the burden of disease and recognise that the biggest effects will come from looking "upstream".

STANDING on the Hoover Dam and looking upstream at Lake Mead, America's largest reservoir, the visitor notices a wide, white band ringing the cliffs.

Although the centre won't be focusing on the funding issues – there are many others doing just that, she says – where it may be able to help is in looking "upstream" to help reduce the need for the most expensive care, through, for example, more tailored housing or better use of technology.

Corporate and institutional buyers of everything from carpets to car parts are looking upstream for solutions, asking suppliers to, variously, reduce or eliminate packaging, eliminate toxic materials, use more organic or biobased ingredients, and take other measures to green up their products and operations.

Fig. 7 Oblique air photo of the 2007 Fox Creek landslide, dam and lake, looking upstream.

We therefore further addressed this question by looking upstream from SCD. Δ9-desaturation requires electrons supplied via Ncb5or (NAD(P H-cytochrome b5 oxidoreductase) [31].

I looked upstream, just in time to see Glyn flick his rod upward.

"There's an old family saw that says if a Romney drowns, look upstream for the body," Mr. Romney said.

I bumped over a culvert and looked upstream, a cow in the muck, brown-eyed, returning my gaze.

I looked upstream at the head of the pool where the current had deposited white pumice sand.

As the fly swung down, I looked upstream, where another angler was casting.