Strikers' demand, sometimes

Usage examples of raise.

This accomplished woman gave her hand to Odenathus, who, from a private station, raised himself to the dominion of the East.

They no doubt believed that if England attained this commanding position, the accumulated wealth would raise all classes into better conditions.

In here, his body motionless, his affinity expanding his consciousness through bitek processors and incorporated brains, his mentality was raised by an order of magnitude.

My poor mind has been distressed at her weak state: I should sink under discouragement, did I not consider that He who sends affliction can support in it, and he who brings low can raise up in his own time, if it be his blessed will, to which all must be submitted.

He was raising crops when I found him, but when I left, he had changed his agronomy to soldiers, and now raises troops.

The Sun is neither born, dies, nor is raised to life: and the recital of these events was but an allegory, veiling a higher truth.

He felt strange touches within his body and a rising sexual thrall, along with amazement that he could have so forgot this as to hesitate in raising her from the tank.

He raised his hands and directional speakers in the walls of the converted cargo cell amplified his throat-miked words.

He began to take little drops of glass from the furnace on the end of a thin iron, and he drew them out into thick threads and heated them again and laid them on the body of the ampulla, twisting and turning each bit till he had no more, and forming a regular raised design on the surface.

Feet pounded in the hallway, and Mistress Anan pushed Nerim firmly out of her way and raised her skirts to step around the corpse on the floor.

When the herd draws itself together in arms against the stranger it is a fall for those rare free spirits who love the whole world, but it raises the many who weakly vegetate in anarchistic egotism, and lifts them to that higher stage of organised selfishness.

The townspeople realized the fruit of the Norman labor and a low moan came to Wulfgar as their voices raised in anguished protest.

We shall only observe that, in the act for the land-tax, and in the act for the malt-tax, there was a clause of credit, empowering the commissioners of the treasury to raise the money which they produced by loans on exchequer bills, bearing an interest of four per cent, per annum, that is, one per cent, higher than the interest usually granted in time of peace.

This persecution under the Hashimite monarchy raised communists to a status near that of martyrs in the eyes of the antimonarchical postrevolutionary leaders plotting the 1958 uprising.

They watched Antsy raise a hand, halt those following with a gesture, then inscribe a circle in the air with his index finger.