Sentence examples for roughly lifted from inspiring English sources

He was within a yard of the car when he found himself being roughly lifted to his feet and brushed down by a pair of oversized, hairy hands.

He incredulously questions, "Who could possibly be against this?" Zuckerberg goes on to call arguments against Free Basics "false claims", and refers to research showing that "We know that for every 10 people connected to the internet, roughly one is lifted out of poverty".

Social Security also lifted roughly 14.5 million seniors above the poverty line.

Also today, the Israeli curfew was lifted about 3 p.m. and roughly 30 women and children marched from town to the church.

Along with the much-touted projection of 500,000 jobs lost, the CBO report estimates that, on balance, about 900,000 people (or roughly 300,000 households) would be lifted out of poverty by a $10.10 minimum wage.

If India could raise its response of reduction to growth to this level, a one percentage point growth could lift roughly 10 million people out of poverty.

"All told, our safety-net programmes combined to lift roughly 38 million people – including 8 million children – out of poverty in 2014 alone," he writes.

American government experts say the engines of the Russian R-27 represent an improvement of roughly 40 percent in lifting force over the kerosene-fired engines that power most Iranian missiles.

The $787 billion stimulus law has lifted employment by roughly 2.5 million jobs, outside analyses have found, but that has not been enough to reduce the unemployment rate substantially.

The jump in options activity on the stock Friday lifted options implied volatility roughly 5% to 54.69%.

Someone lifted my shoulders, maneuvering me roughly over the stairs outside the mosque and into a courtyard.