It feels somehow uplifting.

An elegant, uplifting presentation

Kirat Koyu Rais Uplifting Association

It would make a very uplifting world.

What's that? We both believe in uplifting the, uh, masses.

And when I read it it was one of the most uplifting moments of my life.

To be sure, heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard will be sweeter in uplifting action.

It almost made me feel a little bit guilty about having an uplifting talk about the future.

In 1994, after three months of covering the South African election, I saw the inauguration of Nelson Mandela, and it was the most uplifting thing I've ever seen.

Now, one of the things that I found most uplifting about all of this stuff that's happened around the book since it came out, is the reaction to it.

They are difficult to watch, but you should look at them with optimism because the horror of these pictures will be matched by the uplifting quality of knowing that they no longer exist.

And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. (The Holy Bible, Isaiah 2 4) The reality was less uplifting.

In this uplifting talk, Katherine Fulton sketches the new future of philanthropy one where collaboration and innovation allow regular people to do big things, even when money is scarce. Giving five practical examples of crowd driven philanthropy, she calls for a new generation of citizen leaders.

An impressive network of indigenous and international grassroots non governmental organizations has supported a wide range of development actions in Africa, especially in the major areas of fostering community participation, promoting self help employment among rural women and youth, uplifting the poor and protecting the right of consumers.

Politicians, however, prefer to couch the objective in more uplifting and persuasive terms than that of crassly increasing consumption. In the US, the expansion of home ownership a key element of the American dream to low and middle income households was the defensible linchpin for the broader aims of expanding credit and consumption.

The sense in which I can be uplifting and inspiring I mean, there's always been a kind of a certain grim dimension to the way I try to uplift, so if grim inspiration if grim inspiration is not a contradiction in terms, that is, I'm afraid, the most you can hope for. OK, today that's if I succeed.

It is critical, however, that the development process now under way in the African continent must not be curtailed or reversed so that real progress in terms of uplifting the material conditions of the peoples of Africa will continue. It is therefore critical that appropriate action be implemented at the international level to insulate them from the financial crisis raging in some parts of the world.