Sentence examples for work upward from inspiring English sources

Many of the fellows say they work upward of 40 hours a week.

He calculated that a minimum-wage worker would need to work upward of 23 hours a day to afford a "modest" apartment.

Echinacea stems are almost hollow, he said, so it's easy for borers to enter at the base and work upward undetected.

What he did next chafes against every instinct in our nature — against the urgings that compel us, whether in the landscape of our feelings, our social evolution, or our bad dreams, to work upward and head toward the light.

The real power of ground-up applications (ones that you have to build everything from the way the buttons work upward) is that you can create rich demonstrations of complex natural laws that suck the abstractions of complicated equations right out a textbook.

"We can work upward slowly," Monroe says.

Berlin, working upward from its quislings, was having trouble with its horses.

She said there is quite a "subtle poisoning of all our femininity, and it is not working upward from poverty into prosperity, but downward from prosperity into poverty".

The participants usually began with what they thought were 15-volt shocks, and worked upward in 15-volt increments, as the experimenter instructed.

After many years of working upward of 80 hours a week, I am finally looking forward to starting to pay off my medical school loans and opening up a savings account for the first time in my life.

Sales rose 72%, and WebEx began working upward to the enterprise level.