Sentence examples for nudge upward from inspiring English sources

The numbers nudge upward with increased participation.

Mr. Lhota, whose campaign routinely highlights his connection to Mr. Giuliani's rigid law-and-order policies, said that his real worry was the city's crime rate, which, after two decades of sharp declines, has begun to nudge upward.

More than ever, the rich have become part of our local context, nudging upward our sense of what is required to live comfortably and securely.

But that figure is nudging upward as companies like California Olive Ranch, Corto Olive and Apollo have produced oils that are priced to compete not only in specialty stores, but in supermarkets.

Although the precise data is not scheduled for release until tomorrow, several people who have seen the figures confirmed the decline, adding that it was not steep -- a nudge downward after several years in which the figures barely nudged upward.

Unemployment in Britain nudged upward for a third successive month, but the overall unemployment rate remained close to a 26-year low at 3.2percentt, far below the levels in the European Union and the United States.

Thankfully, the markets have greeted Oracle with gentle nudges upward, rather than with exile.

From 1979 to 2007, for the middle class, average household income (after taxes) nudged upward from $44,100 to $55,300; by contrast, for the top 1%, average household income soared from $346,600 in 1979 to nearly $1.3 million in 2007.

Density nudged upward in the African and South American regions as area loss outstripped the loss of carbon.

If Democrats want to raise middle class taxes — and I mean really raise them, not just cut deals that nudge revenue upward a little here and there — they need to lay the political and policy groundwork for that kind of push, and they need to start relatively soon.

Continued disruptions in North Sea production and outages in Iraq also acted to nudge prices upward.