Sentence examples for raise of one from inspiring English sources

In both rooms, West contributed a limit raise of one spade to three spades, a slight overbid.

"It's a slight raise of one shoulder, a fragment that slips out of a full gesture," Dr. Ekman said.

Some experts would succeed by using a rare jump to four diamonds after the raise of one spade to two spades.

Nor, then, will the ideas be jointly sufficient: one may be socially defined as a woman although one engages in "masculine" behaviors and has no role in the raising of one's children.

Employing just the slightest of gestures - a raising of one hand, a hesitation of a cup held to a lip - she moves us through scenes of her life.

For new labor contracts, Bloomberg has proposed giving workers small raises, of one and one-quarter per cent — if they agree to pay a percentage of their health-care premiums, on a par with most state, federal, and private employees.

Over the next three decades, and now in the new century, the bonfire of the vanities has never wanted for more fuel; the raising of one actual skyscraper is effectively twinned with the destruction of its cinematic doppelganger.

But it will take only the raising of one sceptical eyebrow by a police officer in interview, or a single gesture of impatience by the prosecutor, and she will lose courage and withdraw.

That motherliness need not manifest itself only in the raising of one's children; as Ms. Del Ponte's career shows, it is the quality that can make women great leaders in international justice.

A prerequisite of the capacity to intervene in the environment in which one lives and modify it is therefore the enhancement of the self as a person, the raising of one's internal resources to a level of competence and knowledge that, as well as giving solid awareness, puts the subject in a position to tangibly handle the problems each project entails.

This initial idea is developed by explaining how all project-based concern requires first and foremost the raising of one's internal resources to a level of competence and knowledge that puts the subject in a position to tangibly handle the problems the project entails.