Sentence examples for sharp upward from inspiring English sources

The figures also show a sharp upward long-term trend.

Instead he was retained, took 17 wickets in New Zealand and arrived at Old Trafford on a sharp upward curve.

"They have always been good, but this season, they have gone like this," Shpilband said, tilting his left hand at a sharp upward angle.

But they would also hurt manufacturers and lead to an inflow of foreign money that could put sharp upward pressure on local currencies.

Geoghegan's candidacy gives the people of the Fifth the opportunity to continue the sharp upward trajectory of the quality of their representation.

The gains since then are small compared with the sharp upward moves staged by the currencies of many other emerging economies.

The hallmark of the original method is a graph widely called the "hockey stick" because of its shape: a long, relatively unwavering line crossing the last millennium and then a sharp, upward-turning "blade" of warming over the last century.

Since the end of 2008, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note has increased by one and a half percentage points, rising to 3.54percentfrom2percentcenthethe sharpest upward move in 15 years.

But the Clippers' fortunes took a sharp turn upward in mid-December when they acquired the All-Star point guard Chris Paul in a trade with the New Orleans Hornets.

On April 6 the National Bureau of Statistics announced results of its rebasing of Nigeria's national-accounts estimates, which for 2013 showed a sharp 89% upward revision of GDP, almost doubling the economy.

The candidates are trying to define how they would tackle the sharp spiral upward in gasoline prices and its ever more severe impact on the economy, and so far their policy proposals are poles apart.