Sentence examples for standing raised from inspiring English sources

This has leveled a once severely tilted playing field and while lessening our relative standing, raised living standards the world over.

In many cases, school buildings collapsed as buildings around them remained standing, raising questions about the possibility of shoddy construction.

In many cases, other nearby buildings remained standing — raising questions about corruption in the construction of facilities for society's most vulnerable members.

People were standing, raising their hands, clapping and shouting "Alleluia" and "Amen" throughout his 20-minute talk.

While standing, raise one foot and use it to trace the letters of the alphabet in the air in front of you (use the couch arm to support you).

Marriage, the report found, has a "powerful" effect on a family's economic standing, raising incomes and decreasing poverty in a way that's equivalent to adding at least five years to a parent's education.

The exact dynamical behavior in this situation seems subtle, and is likely related to a long time standing conjecture raised by Lou and Lutscher [5], which was also a main motivation for this paper.

"Raise head": the male was standing immobile, raising his head and keeping it in direction to the opposite side from where the female was.

The appeals court ruled that Ms. Bond did not have standing to raise a 10th Amendment defense.

"An effect resembling a moving wave produced by successive sections of the crowd in a stadium standing up, raising their arms, lowering them, and sitting down again".

"The days of environmental racism have to come to an end," Ms. Quinn said, adding that anyone who opposed the transfer station was "standing for raising asthma rates in places like Williamsburg and the South Bronx".