"raised upward" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when talking about something that has been moved upward, away from something else. Example: After the accident, his spirits were raised upward.
Adrian Bliss, Benjamin Robbins and Toby Stubbs say they have already raised upward of £100,000, or about $149,000, from more than 10,000 donors, on their way to a goal of £1 million.
While "patchy U.S. demand does not spell recovery yet," Zenith Optimedia executives wrote in a report, the estimate is being raised upward from one made three months ago, which predicted a 1.2percentt decline.
Big heads and long, heavy bodies may make carnivorous dinosaurs look fierce, but they could have gotten in the way of quick turns--and led the so-called theropod dinosaurs to walk with their tails raised upward.
"Venture capitalists invest in the future," said Lorna Randlett, who helped her husband, Wade Randlett of the Silicon Valley Advocacy group, the Technology Network, raised upward of $700,000 for Obama, "And innovation now means something different: It used to be about being smart and snappy … but now it's about what we need as a country to survive in a global marketplace".
Her father, Lance Eric Keenleysidee), finds her in the middle of the street, with her arms raised upward, kneeling before a Dark Figure.
Male foxes courting females, or after successfully evicting intruders, will turn their ears outwardly, and raise their tails in a horizontal position, with the tips raised upward.
Mr. Israel is supposed to raise upward of $150 million for the battle to win back the majority.
The risk of printing francs to intervene in currency markets is that it raises upward pressure on prices, so the lack of inflation offers the central bank room to be more aggressive in fighting the franc's surge.
The department does not track how much is raised through auctions, but anecdotes suggest they pull in tens of thousands of dollars; smaller schools may bring in $15,000, while larger schools raise upward of $150,000 in good years.
In the tower gas is raising upward and water drops with suspended limestone fall downward.
As you twist, the wings will begin raising upward.
