Upwardly used in a sentence

Upwardly in a sentence as an adverb

Is the idea to be "upwardly mobile" ? I mean I have to grasp for that idea.

People who are upwardly mobile follow the jobs. In general, they choose jobs, then cities.

The US is still upwardly mobile. If you have any ambition at all, it's possible to rise.

It pains me when people compare themselves to the upper 1% of upwardly mobile people and then lose their self-worth over the whole deal.

It's a city that draws the young upwardly mobile crowd, rather than the working class. So there is the sense of a diversity of ideas, and many different people doing different things.

Aside from that, in contemporary business culture, losing respect of your peers is no loss when you're upwardly mobile. They're the ones you're leaving behind.

My critical thinking skills lead me to guess that is not the most fulfilling, high paying, or upwardly mobile job even for Oklahoma.

If you look at a graph of Iceland's GDP, you can see a gently upwardly-curving trend from 1960 thru today, with a massive, abberrant spike sticking up from the trendline from 2004-2008. That's how Icelandi bought her shiny new car.

Regardless of how the company does, I now have a resume that shows all kinds of good bullet points: Harvard MBA, upwardly mobile as a executive, CEO experience. I can now bounce around CEO and President positions for a while...

Most probably it's upwardly biased, but one has no way of knowing if the bias is constant across countries, which in turn makes any inference impossible.

Most people go to school hoping to end up upwardly bound in a fulfilling and financially rewarding career, drawn in by stories highly slanted with survivor bias. Many end up in dead-end jobs or underemployed.

I have a cousin who's gotten sick of the low-pay dead end job life and has been asking me for advice on how to get into and through college and turn it into an upwardly mobile career. He's also coming from a poor rural family environment and is pretty desperate to get out.

What's interesting to me is the big band stretching from Duluth, MN to Midland, TX that's the most "upwardly mobile" for essentially all income classes. An important note, though: While this data is useful for relative measurements, the absolute gain or loss in income % is less meaningful.

What's really being revealed by this poll is that it's easier to feel good about your finances when you're upwardly-mobile, and it's not so easy to feel good about your finances when you're downwardly-mobile.

I am bothered by the weird anti-tech, anti-business vibe that sometimes percolates up on certain topics, on a site about tech business -- no doubt typed up on brand new MBPs and right after a comment extolling the virtues of Tesla's upwardly moving stock price. It's a kind of cognitive dissonance that I find troubling.

Breaking the web is a forcing function that forces people to tap into the normal, upwardly moving parts of the economy and society and it's the only thing I've ever seen that has any kind of success rate at all.

I was watching the UK Apprentice the other day and during the "boardroom" scene they were showing a group of stylish , upwardly mobile, adult business women arguing about whether or not something was an "epic fail". The term "epic fail" is a reference to an obscure neogeo game called blazing star which I doubt any of these women would ever have played.

The dysfunction in government and the general unfriendliness to the upwardly mobile is appalling. California neither benefits from the good Puritan economic sense seen in New England states nor the thrift of good-governance states like Montana.

One of my college classmates is a severely messed-up person from being raised by abusively money-hungry and careerist upwardly-mobile parents from India. Having the fire of destitution in your belly is how you breed Goldman Sachs investment bankers, not good citizens of a developed society.

I know of no upwardly mobile, reasonably successful adult, 18+, who knows how to program. Huh? Surely I'm misreading this or there's a typo here. If not, you've stumbled into the right place. Say hi to the legions of programmers on HN who are upwardly mobile and very successful.

It's "possible" to be upwardly mobile, particularly in the tech field, nowadays, but it takes a certain personality type to do so. Upward mobility for driven, workaholic, A-type personalities is a pretty narrow path to success though, especially when even those personality types, given certain life circumstances, are extremely constrained in how much they are able to accomplish.

And it all comes from historical cultural background where only the idle rich had the lack of need and spare time to be educated, therefore the way to be upwardly mobile is to get an education, although you'd still like a job, so better scrap the education and demand vocational training from an educational institution. To a crude first approximation, vocational training is what gives you skills you can trade for money on the job, or perhaps if unemployed, as a hobby, but an education gives you something "worthwhile and interesting" to think about, and if you can make money off it thats nice but its not the purpose at all.

It starts with recognizing the problem for what it is and doing what we can to teach kids from impoverished backgrounds not just how to read and write but how to become upwardly mobile in their networking I'm pretty sure the problem is more complex than just lack of awareness of the importance of a certain approach to networking... and I'm someone who has been down this path - having grown up "dirt poor" in rural southeast NC, and having escaped to a solidly middle-class lifestyle.