Exempel på raising

• The conductor raised his baton.

• She raised her gun, took aim and fired.

• Anyone wishing to dissent from the motion should now raise their hand.

• The contraction of this muscle raises the lower arm.

• The lever is used to raise the barrier.

• The increase in interest rates will raise the cost of living.

• The government's decision to raise taxes has caused a great furore.

• Banks have raised their lending rates by 2%.

• The campaign has certainly succeeded in raising public awareness of the issue.

• You'll have to raise your voice if you want to be heard in here.

• This latest scandal has raised doubts about his suitability for the post.

• This case has raised a multitude of questions.

• A series of unsolved murders on the island has raised fears that a psychopathic serial killer is on the loose.

• I would like to raise a point of order.

• This raises the question of teacher pay.

• Although he was raised a Catholic, he was an agnostic for most of his adult life.

• She decided to turn vegan after watching a documentary about how poultry is raised.

• She thinks she knows everything about raising children, but I could tell her a thing or two.

• He was born and raised in Texas.

• My dad died when we were small so my mum raised the family on her own.

• Raising, or at least maintaining, one's rank in the hierarchy is a perpetual battle, and turnover within the population is constant.

• The better-off had a choice in the matter, and decided against raising their own children.

• Suppose the foreign exchange and trade reforms could be achieved first-e. g., if powerful domestic forces delayed the raising of energy prices.

• Scientists of the late eighteenth century were committed to raising the level of these studies through experimentation and, above all, measurement.

• Raising plan generosity also boosts employees' appreciation of their retirement program but its effect is more modest.

• But a more damaging example which indicates that ' necessary existence ' is often a status lowering rather than status raising predicate is provided by negative predicates.

• It makes it hard for us to believe that we had anything to do with begetting or raising such exquisite little people.

• Yet there is an important sense in which the verb raising operations in the two languages are at polar extremes.

• One of the advantages of raising troops through the companies was that their corporate resources might ensure that the poorer inhabitants were less burdened.

• However, it is important to note that fronting and raising are straightforward categorical phonetic adjustments.

• They reiterated the 1958 demand that the federal government split revenues equally with them by raising the provincial share to 50 per cent.

• This means that it is not unthinkable that the wife's help was sometimes necessary, either in raising the stock or in the meat hall.

• Raising an awareness of the richness in linguistic and cultural diversity in multilingual contexts should present an important part of new programmes.

• Expressed in terms of elements, the raising and centralisation that produce reduction converge on a single result : they banish complex melodic expressions from atonic nuclei.

• Never-married women were particularly vulnerable to social exclusion and destitution, because they had not complied with the cultural norms (adat) of marriage and raising children.