It is also a non static concept, as estimates of reserves will generally be revised upwards or downwards as additional geologic or engineering data become available, as technology improves, and or as economic conditions (such as oil prices and production costs) change.

The earliest version of a slanted footstool can be found in Jerusalem, but throughout the Eastern Christian world until the 17th century, the footstool is slanted the other way, pointing upwards rather than downwards, making the downward footstool a Russian innovation.

The weighted midpoint in table 4 represents the sum of the weighted membership, population and contribution factors, and the weighted range is calculated as 15 per cent upwards and downwards (but not less than 415 points up and down (4.8 times 86.37), with the upper limit being not less than 1,209 points (14 times 86.37).

Then he will look downwards , and will see him in the depths of Hell .

Then he will look downwards , and will see him in the depths of Hell .

And the system gets perturbed. It moves upwards to a fragmented state.

The window is also opened upwards and is held on gas struts.

PCBS has recently revised upwards the GDP figures for 2002 and 2003.

And We made the upside there of downwards , and We rained on them stones of baked clay .

And We made the upside there of downwards , and We rained on them stones of baked clay .

( And ) they would hasten forward , heads lifted upwards , gazes fixed , and emptied out their hearts .

( And ) they would hasten forward , heads lifted upwards , gazes fixed , and emptied out their hearts .

By some accounts, Chinese officials currently negotiate upwards of 50,000 major incidents annually.

He could liberalize the exchange rate and let it float upwards, but he is not even doing that.

Then ( remember ) when they both submitted to Allah s command , and Ibrahim lay his son facing downwards . ( The knife did not hurt Ismail )

Then ( remember ) when they both submitted to Allah s command , and Ibrahim lay his son facing downwards . ( The knife did not hurt Ismail )

But now the eurozone seems incapable of escaping near deflation, with little economic growth and prices barely moving upwards.

In the spring of 2010, the IMF committed upwards of 300 billion to Southern Europe alone.

In many US cities, for example, good chess teachers earn upwards of 100 150 per hour.

As a result, a net downwards adjustment of 43 million is reflected in staff assessment provisions under section 35, Staff assessment.

If the Washington Fiscal Consensus proves correct, when benchmark rates eventually edge upwards, they will move slowly.

From the second level upwards, devatas abound on the walls, singly or in groups of up to four.

The Web of Science citations index had steadily moved upwards from 0.3 in 2002 to 1.5 in 2012.

We have indeed put shackles around their necks reaching up to the chins , so they remain facing upwards .

We have indeed put shackles around their necks reaching up to the chins , so they remain facing upwards .

The natural numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, and so on begin with 0 and continue upwards, so that every number has a successor.

A study by the Economic Commission for Africa showed a clear trend upwards in governance in 28 African countries.

Irreversibility and verifiability (Steps 5 and 6) To maintain the credibility of the undertaking, movement towards the elimination of nuclear weapons needs to be exclusively in one direction downwards.

Famine deaths The exact number of famine deaths is difficult to determine, and estimates range from 18 to upwards of 42 million people.

The results are showing independent monitoring by the World Bank and other organizations show that in many instances the trend is downwards in terms of corruption, and governance is improving.

But it would be more accurate to say that there is global investment shortfall, with investment trending downwards despite the upward trend in global growth.

The tendency of air and fire, on the other hand, was to move upwards, away from the center, with fire being lighter than air.

At the same time, the Government has revised its revenue estimates downwards from 300 million to 280 million for 1383 and from 400 million to 335 million for 1384.

It is a lot easier to exit from a fixed exchange rate regime when the pressures on the currency are upwards.

A project entitled Mixed was launched in the Netherlands in 2002, inter alia, to develop, distribute and test instruments and resources that would enable upwards mobility of women.

Income disparities will not be fundamentally altered until the market equilibrium wage inches upwards sufficiently to create labor demand at decent wage levels.

These birds are very long lived, and can live upwards of 70 years in captivity, although they only live to about 20 40 years in the wild.

There's only one exception to this universal law, and that is the human spirit, which can continue to evolve upwards the staircase bringing us into wholeness, authenticity and wisdom.

Moving the bead straight upwards from its height formula_17 to a height formula_18 would represent one possible infinitesimal displacement, but would violate the constraint.

Headlines about the launch were truly alarming Over the next 18 years, global warming would kill 100 million people and cost the economy upwards of 6.7 trillion annually.

In fact, the latest figures from the World Bank indicate that growth reached just 2.7 in 2011, and will slow this year to 2.5 a figure that may well need to be revised downwards.

If we plant trees and build water features, we won t just beautify our surroundings, but we ll also cool things down by upwards of 8 C, according to climate models.

The love has been very tough indeed, generating rapid economic contraction, massive unemployment (upwards of 50 among young people), and continued fiscal deterioration, owing to rising debt service costs.

could be trapped for millions of years, and although some leakage occurs upwards through the soil, well selected storage sites are likely to retain over 99 of the injected over 1000 years.

Then there was Space Adventures, the private company that arranges the space tourist trips with Roskosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency, for upwards of 35 million a flight.