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If somebody can go out and rent upwards of five rooms and not get caught, there's a problem there.

Christopher Carroll

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

H. G. Wells

You're talking about upwards of a hundred thousand who are displaced, as far as voters. So that's a lot of people, and the numbers so far that have come in show there's a large hurdle to get to a high turnout in this election. I don't expect one. But I'm an optimist. We're going to do everything we can.

Melanie Campbell

... there is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Their costs have been upwards of twice as much as normal harvesting.

Joel Nelsen

For the team and the program, this means we're moving upwards. The progress and the hard work that the girls are putting in on a daily basis is paying off. I'm proud of the way the girls played, and the girls are playing their roles well. It was truly a team effort.

Chris Murin

There are a lot of loans that were made anywhere from one to five years ago that have adjustable rates. Those rates are adjusting upwards and making it difficult for some people.

Jane Moore

We can trade sideways and downwards but not upwards. We are restricted with the salary cap, but it's a problem we knew was coming.

Graeme Downie

It has been trending upwards over the past 150 years since the industrial revolution.

Julia Langer

[MS reportedly has upwards of 2,500 people working on the worldwide 360 launch, and the company will utilize every plane available to ship its product.] We're going to ship all around the world; how we're going to do that, I don't know, ... We're going to rent every 747 we can find.

Peter Moore

I think it (Japan's economic outlook) will certainly be revised upwards, probably significantly, in light of the strong performance recently.

David Burton

On the other hand, you have an organization that wants to make sure they can do all they can to protect their interests and investments before they commit upwards of $60 million to a player. So I can understand why they would want to use every possible means to investigate that.

Peter Roby

Short-term prices bounce around. I think we will see the long end of most curves move upwards.

Mark Mathias

There's still potential for the markets to gradually move upwards over the year, and M&A can help. There is quite a lot of institutional demand. Equities are still not particularly expensive.

Lucy Macdonald

Fairly significant indication of overflow. We are estimating upwards of 10,000 and probably into the 50,000 gallon range.

Steve Payne

Unless Sean is at ease with that course of action, it's quite an albatross for upwards of two decades.

Greg Zandlo

These are first estimates based on sketchy data and my feeling is that the figures could get revised upwards.

Paul Turnbull

The bond market had a pretty good move upwards yesterday, but I don't think we're going to get back to that kind of mania to buy Treasuries that we had in the month of September.

John Ryding

With lingering concerns over Iran, Nigeria ... the market is correcting upwards because it is focusing on fears in the geo- political realm.

Victor Shum

PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.

Hans Bender

Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.

Ruth Westheimer

John is held in high regard by the Chinese government and if anyone can convince them to move more rapidly on adjusting upwards the exchange rate it is John.

William Rhodes

A lot of members put in upwards of a hundred hours a year in training and classes and just going through equipment.

Chuck Harris

The forecasts for the second-half of the year for the most part seem to support a recovery, but to some extent, that's already priced into the market, so you're not seeing that much stock reaction. There's not a lot of conviction and some people will take profits. But I think there will continue to be a moderately upwards bias for the remainder of the year.

Douglas Altabef

It is a real increase in head count and percentages, and it has been trending upwards every year since 1999.

Richard Bayer

We've seen over £50billion of additional business tax since 1997 and the share of Government spending has continued to ratchet upwards.

Doug Godden

Then, when the critical peak pricing period starts in the afternoon, you start adjusting that temperature upwards, going as high as 78. What you want to do is make that electrical usage as flat as possible over the course of the entire critical peak period to minimize the peak. Normally it will peak in the middle of the afternoon, but you want to flatten the peak.

James Braun

Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.

Saskya Pandita

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Plato

Michael Fielding left the country in June 2001, over four years ago. Our business has moved onwards and upwards a long way since then and what we are concerned to do is to look forward rather than backward.

Bill Richards

We're building this from the foundation upwards. It certainly has been a priority, but there are a number of groups that need to be involved in this process and we're working through that to make sure we're doing this the best way possible.

Amy Kudwa

We are really pleased with the players we have got in the squad and with just a couple more additions we feel we can keep on going upwards.

Paul Simpson

B.C. differs from the rest of Canada in that the trend is still downward in the rest of Canada as a whole, but in B.C. it's been upwards for the last three years.

Michael Goldberg

It was a combination of themes we've been seeing for the year, which is a commodity that is exploding upwards in price and a US dollar weakening across many currencies.

Paul Mcleod

In some airports where a change of terminals is needed, that time can run upwards of two hours. By locating in the same terminal, the minimum time can be as little as 35 minutes for some flights.

Jaan Albrecht

If we follow these three rules ? wash your hands, cook your food and if you're sick, stay home ? we'll eliminate upwards of 90 percent of these kinds of infectious diseases.

Dennis Klukan

Looking at the context of infrastructure improvements in the sector, the numbers of people that are flying and the plans of airlines that are operating, we believe we will revise our estimate upwards in the next four, five months.

Dinesh Keskar

But it's really about more than just feet. What many people don't realize is that problems in their feet can impact other parts of their bodies as well, with pain and discomfort often traveling upwards to the legs, hips, back and neck. Sometimes people feel uncomfortable all over their body, and they don't know why.

David Workman

We were receiving upwards of 100 a month in 1999 and 2000.

Brian Sexton

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

Fred Hoyle

A child can be interviewed upwards 30 times during the course of an investigation. Our goal is to prevent the child from being re-victimized.

Jessica Hope

If he makes all his starts, with his stuff, there's no reason why he can't win upwards of 15-to-20 games.

Bud Black

So far, their case, against Ms Rogers, is estimated to have cost upwards of £50,000.

Yogi Amin

Consumer spending has kept the economy moving, and when initial holiday sales were better than expected, financial markets reacted with enthusiasm. It was this potential pick-up in the economy that caused interest rates, including mortgage rates, to drift upwards this week.

Frank Nothaft

Our goal is to draw upwards of 7,000 people next season. I think we can do that.

John D'argenio

Sometimes we see people putting upwards of $10,000 worth of after market options and personalization into a vehicle and it's likely they'll never get it back.

Charlie Vogelheim

We're certainly on the move onwards and upwards.

Martin Smith

The world economy is growing at an above average pace for the fourth successive year and, significantly, forecasts have been revised upwards.

Ian Macfarlane

It's the boiling point. It's the moment when the line starts to shoot straight upwards.

Malcolm Gladwell

Depending on what you?re doing, you could be having upwards of 100 people deployed.

Mike Bonin

These plants will cost upwards of $1 billion each, but we can't be more specific than that right now. We will be doing more construction design work over the next nine months, and that will help us come up with a more concrete figure.

Jeri Matheney

Now we have more than 400 teams competing and can draw upwards of 20,000 people into the area. With teams coming from eight states on the East Coast we're one of the largest national competitions.

Mike Stamper

We expect vigorous growth for the first quarter of the year. If we continue having this type of industrial production data we will surely have to revise growth (estimates) upwards.

Guillermo Ortiz

We only have one senior this year too, so we?re still kind of young. But now we have players with a full year under their belt. So this group really is moving upwards quickly.

Paul Destefano

We had a mid-afternoon drift upwards, but I would call it more a lack of selling than buying momentum.

Jennifer Williams

Even conservative estimates already run to upwards of $6 billion (in total Katrina flood claims), and that could be very low.

David Conrad

In 2003 the South African authorities deported 55,753 Zimbabweans without official documents. Figures for this year are likely to be higher, with 24,000 irregular Zimbabwean migrants being deported between January and March alone. Deportees are both male and female, and aged from in their teens and upwards, but the reason for deportation is always the lack of legal documentation.

Nicola Simmonds