Steadily my career progressed upward until that moment I found myself steering my car down a game trail toward an appointment with a helicopter.

"We wanted to progress upward, not backward, this season," Brian Leetch said.

As the stop progresses upward on the keyboard, the notes "break" back to the next lower octave or fifth.

For the next three years Montoya raced in various divisions, continually progressing upward.

In 1848 he became a magistrate; his career progressed upward for the next 20 years, and he rose to the rank of prosecutor.

As the weakness progresses upward, usually over periods of hours to days, the arms and facial muscles also become affected.

The ribs had slits to take beams that supported platforms, thus allowing the work to progress upward without the need for scaffolding.

Each screen is situated on top of the previous one, so the spider progresses upward while the apples are carried downward.

The smell of the slave pens grew stronger as they progressed upward through the succeeding levels.

They conceive of their lives as following a script, progressing upward through stages.