Sentences with phrase «first upward surge»
The Rock the Vote campaigns and field efforts led the way in the first upward surge in 18 - 24 year old in voting since the passage of the 26th Amendment.
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A brilliant achievement of Sumer was the impulse given to the Stone - Age cultures of Egypt, which, soon after 3000 B.C., responded with the sudden upward surge of the first dynasties and then the majesty and enduring wonder of the Pyramid age, great in its architecture and engineering, notable for the realism and yet the impassive dignity of its art, and memorable for the brilliance and varied richness of its thronging life.
Massachusetts» students soon began surging upward on the federal NAEP exam and the state now routinely ranks first in the nation in fourth - and eighth - grade reading and math.
It's the fifth year in a row for growth and it's the first time in 10 years that the Hispanic rates surged upward while rates for the rest of the country stalled.