• It seemed far too small to encompass so many different lives, rising and falling fortunes, history and myths.

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  • Rising and falling and attempting to rise again is the cardiac cycle of modern American life.

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  • The musical score is spot on, rising and falling in tempo with the slightest change in action.

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  • Occupying its outermost third is a convective zone where gas is rising and falling in planet-sized cells.

    BBC: Sun, Trace

  • Given that 1 would represent perfect correlation, that implies most hedge-fund styles are rising and falling in near-unison.

    ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

  • Single-stock futures allow investors to gamble on the price of an individual equity stock both rising and falling.

    BBC: Liffe boosted by Nasdaq deal

  • Tidal current: movement of water in a constant direction caused by the periodic rising and falling of the tide.

    UNESCO: L O S S A R Y

  • The innovation is in the engineering of a racking system and floating structure that can accommodate water rising and falling.

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  • An LCD ticker lining the walls registers the rising and falling popularity of the various beers by adjusting prices on tap.

    FORBES: Brazil's Next Boom Still Brewing

  • In government, business, and society, we are now rising and falling together.

    FORBES: @Davos: ��How can we make capitalism more moral?��

  • Her skin is prickling, the hair on the back of her neck rising and falling, as if ghosts are leaving and entering the room.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Away'

  • He said Argentina's property market appeals to him because "it is a cash market, " less likely to be affected by rising and falling interest rates.

    WSJ: Buenos Aires Lures Foreign Buyers With Tumbling Prices��WSJ Mansion

  • Tide: periodic rising and falling of large bodies of water resulting from the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun acting on the rotating earth.

    UNESCO: L O S S A R Y

  • The "zigzag" movement of prices rising and falling in short order was normal, she said, and a sign of the intense price competition on the market.

    BBC: Holiday fuel rise fury

  • The drum turns as the players move on and off-stage, but it is in the centrepiece, rising and falling to reveal the myriad new worlds, that it really comes to life.

    ECONOMIST: New theatre

  • When his characters had to speak he would draw with a mirror beside him, giving them the lines of his own mouth making letters and his own eyebrows rising and falling.

    ECONOMIST: Ollie Johnston | The

  • The terrain in the Charlevoix region was very different from what I had experienced on the opposite banks: the roads so far had been flat or gently curving, here they snaked and rolled, dramatically rising and falling.

    BBC: Canada��s greatest cycling trail

  • Dune after dune, rising and falling beneath his feet, then finally falling, falling, falling all the way to a gray-green-blue vastness, riffled, glinting, and crossed by the cloud shadows as far as the eye could see.

    NEWYORKER: Ziggurat

  • With necklaces and dangling earrings, feathered headgear and bells on their ankles, the men line up, swaying rhythmically, rising and falling on their toes, as their song, accompanied only by handclaps, rises to a crescendo.

    ECONOMIST: The nomads defy a government ban

  • After the crash Network Rail said there had been a problem at the crossing a year ago, with the barrier rising and falling slowly, but it had been fixed and it was in full working order.

    BBC: Yarnton level crossing death 'unexplained'

  • There was smoke and a terrible warmth, a gray sun rising and falling in what seemed like a matter of minutes, and the tiger, frenzied, dry-tongued, ran back and forth along the span of rusted bars.

    NEWYORKER: The Tiger��s Wife

  • Network Rail said there had been a problem at the crossing a year ago, with the barrier rising and falling slowly, but it had been fixed and it was in full working order before the crash.

    BBC: Man dies after car hit by train at Yarnton level crossing

  • Hafren Power has said it has improved on previous plans for a barrage that were rejected in 2010 by using smaller turbines that can generate power on both the rising and falling tide and at slower speeds.

    BBC: Severn Barrage: Time to 'grasp opportunity', says Hain

  • The company says that it has improved on previous plans for a barrage that were rejected in 2010 by using smaller turbines that can generate power on both the rising and falling tide and at slower speeds.

    BBC: Severn Barrage artist's impression

  • The company has said it has improved on previous plans for a barrage that were rejected in 2010 by using smaller turbines that can generate power on both the rising and falling tide and at slower speeds.

    BBC: Severn Barrage: Ed Davey says ?30bn plan could progress

  • But Bolden concedes that she has had a hard time figuring out just how many teachers to hire because the number of students at Fischer keeps rising and falling as parents try to find the best school closest to home.

    NPR: Remaking the New Orleans School System

  • Like most other psychiatrists, I dislike Xanax for this reason and will often try to switch long-term Xanax users to one of the other benzodiazepines that has a longer half-life and less liability for producing patterns of rising and falling anxiety across the day.

    CNN: What are the long-term brain effects of Xanax?

  • Trouble is, this is the first time anything had been done, even though Leong Hin's stock had been exhibiting suspicious trading behavior for more than a year and a half--rising and falling over roughly six-month cycles by almost identical amounts, regardless of movements in the local market and with little news from the company.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • This is the shortest of the Potter movies at two hours, 10 minutes, but the tempo is exactly right, rising and falling as Harry's fortunes bring him back to Hogwarts in search of the last horcrux and the school becomes a battleground -- a war zone -- for the eternal fight between good and evil.

    CNN: Review: Final 'Harry Potter' goes out with a bang

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