Truly leveling the playing field means elevating the voices of the voters so they are not drowned out by wealthy special interests and well-heeled corporations.
Achieving their mission of increasing community college students' graduation rates in Chicago means elevating that population's stature in society while simultaneously helping these students envision how they can succeed against great odds.
As Dan Wetzel writes on Yahoo.com, sticking to the no-female members policy means excluding the head of its major corporate sponsor because she is a woman, which means elevating sexual discrimination above other priorities, including being the club of the business elite.
This means elevating not just needles and your hands, but all the communication, nutritional awareness, exercise knowledge, stress reduction and other therapeutic tools you can bring to a population as riddled with chronic ill-health as is ours.
In the Trump Organization, this meant elevating his children and people such as Michael Cohen.
It doesn't mean elevating one identity – that of the white male worker, say – above all others.
That meant elevating diplomacy and development, which had become not marginalised but certainly less prominent in the discussions about how America asserts power.
Ideally, that would mean elevating someone like Paul Volcker, who is currently chairing Obama's recovery advisory group, into the public face of the president's recovery program.
To solve a nominee problem does not mean elevating a "Concussion" or a "Straight Outta Compton" beyond what quality merits, as some academy members, turning up their palms, wonder if they're being asked to do.
The name Merina (Imerina) is said to mean Elevated People, deriving from the fact that they lived on the plateau.
