"upward cycle" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe a period of increasing growth, development, or activity. For example, "The global economy is now in an upward cycle, with growth being reported in all major markets."
We are going to have to lead a global upward cycle and that will be tricky.
An upward cycle in agricultural products may set in if China has a bad harvest and the government relaxes its grain self-sufficiency policy.
"In our view, the upward cycle in energy prices, which began in December 1998, has ended," said William O'Neill, director of futures research at Merrill Lynch & Company.
To really make employment work for development, said Jahan, countries should consider employment-led growth: creating jobs for the poorest to boost demand and consumption, before ratcheting up productivity to create a virtuous upward cycle.
Being kind and nonjudgmental toward the self is good practice for treating others compassionately, just as compassion for others can increase how compassionate people are toward themselves, creating an upward cycle of compassion and an antidote to "incivility spirals" that too often plague work environments.
On the other side, we find that the U.S. Airline Industry is poised for the beginning of a long-term upward cycle as the market emerges from a reorganization characterized by more consolidation at several major hubs and routes and by declines in excess capacity.
Over the years, the trend of stock prices has been upward; since World War II the upward cycles has tended to be of longer duration, while declines have been relatively shorter.
The resulting large scale fining upward cycles separated by laterally widespread bounding surfaces are interpreted as having been formed in response to allocyclic processes driven by variable intensities of precipitation which affected the density of vegetation cover across the landscape and, in turn, the amount and character of sediment supply.
The third order shows a progradational stacking pattern that indicates continuous shallowing upward cycles within patch-reef and mixed coarse clastics.
Log response indicates typical fining-upward cycle of the tidal channel fills.
In partially dolomitized metre-scale high-frequency cycles, the amount of dolomite within a metre-scale, shallowing-upward cycle increases upward from the cycle bottom.
