Pitiful beyond words was his effort to give a semblance of strength to the biceps which rose faintly to the upward movement of the forearm.
Perhaps you've seen such a system, bottles in a refrigerated glass cabinet, taps on the outside, a Medusa's tangle of hoses extending upward in an effort to rebuff the oxygen with inert gases like argon.
The subjects are instructed to pull upward with maximum effort until requested to stop.
Mr. Lanier judged the day as "a notch upward" in his efforts to engage the physicists in a dialogue.
McTeague depicts the fate of its lower-class characters in terms of heredity and their environment, with the belief that "man's nature, despite free will, is determined by genetic and environmental factors" and that heredity controls fate, despite efforts at upward mobility.
Bush has centered his presidential campaign around his efforts to emphasize upward mobility, particularly in minority communities.
He's still being treated by many pundits as a man deeply concerned about deficits, when the fact is that his policy proposals are all about redistributing income upward, and make no serious effort to curb debt.
This is the highest total in the last dozen years or more, said Bob McDonough, the state's administrator of family and adult services, and reflects both a strong enlistment effort and an upward creep in unemployment.
In a new research paper, Reichelstein and Stephen Comello, associate director of the Sustainable Energy Initiative, identify a key regulatory barrier that they believe is freezing the government's hopes that entrepreneurs will step in to accelerate the effort to power upward of 80 million homes that lack electricity.
In an effort to strengthen upward mobility and retirement savings for workers, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md).
