Sentence examples for steps upward from inspiring English sources

Rosamund Pike delivers a fascinatingly poised performance as the gone girl herself – the missing piece in a jigsaw of fear, but a character whose potency exponentially steps upward.

Not a true truss, the construction is similar to corbeled masonry (see corbel) in that each set of beams steps upward (and inward) by resting on the ones below by means of curved braces and struts.

"The FSS offered steps upward to management, which I wasn t interested in at the time," he tells Next Wave, "or the possibility of retraining as a reporting officer, which would involve liaising with the police and offering advice on individual cases, as well as presenting the evidence in court".

The Sun's first steps upward occur at auspicious time this year.

For those on the lower rungs of the income ladder, a step upward can be profound.

So is this ascent from jaw-dropping badness to mere mediocrity a step upward?

"It's a step-by-step upward trend," said Nicholas Donatiello, president of Odyssey, a market research firm in San Francisco.

"We would imagine that the majority of Morrisons colleagues will be absolutely cock-a-hoop about the stepped upward adjustment in pay," said Clive Black, an analyst at Shore Capital.

Now the two rock icons have joined in what supporters of both hope will be yet another step upward in the hoped-for revival of Asbury Park.

Only the most dazzled optimist could consider Mr. Ozawa's new job -- music director of the Vienna State Opera -- a career step upward, but here he was treated as a man going on to better things.

"Every thousand hardy, efficient workers who float West on Free Lands," Greeley editorialized, "would leave places open for as many others; and these taking a step upward, would leave room for advancement of as many more and so on".