Sentence examples for soaring figure from inspiring English sources

The officers, Board of Directors, and staff of UJA-Federation of New York mourn with profound sadness the passing of Morris "Marty Silvermann, a soaring figure of the Jewish community, esteemed philanthropist, and dear friend.

Yellow cabs zip past a Starbucks opposite Village Cigars, with the soaring figure of One World Trade Center further south.

Gerrard's cross from the right wing was met by the soaring figure of Carroll as he got in between Andreas Granqvist and Mellberg to power a header past Isaksson.

Experts are struggling to understand what lies behind the soaring figures.

In this period, the most lucrative years of the railway age, rates of immigration soared (Figure 1).8 Most of these newly arrived foreigners had crossed the ocean as steerage passengers and had endured cramped and poorly equipped steamship quarters for at least a week.

The number of women choosing to freeze their eggs to have babies later in life has soared, figures show.

Fuller's optimism was infectious, prompting Noguchi to make sculptures like the soaring aluminum figure "Miss Expanding Universe" (1932).

Some have called it the equivalent of Betamax but others point to soaring sales figures as evidence it remains the future of radio listening.

The answer is they are soaring viewers figures for Only Connect, the toughest quiz on television, which began as a BBC4 obscurity and has now overtaken BBC1 in the ratings.

Nokia, which earns 80percentt of its revenue from the mobile handsets that are continuing to boom with Europe's much-vaunted wireless revolution, produced soaring growth figures last week that bolstered its stock price.

With the number of claims growing, and jury verdicts for cancerous and noncancerous claims soaring, those figures will skyrocket, according to Tillinghast-Towers Perrin, an actuarial firm that has studied the issue.