1.   He is a wholly conscious arriviste, half proud and half ashamed of both his middle-class background and his upward mobility.

2.   In a society that valued upward mobility, formal education became a gateway to economic and social success.

3.   Jeff is already a victim but his actions could alter the balance and restore the upward mobility of his career.

4.   More recently, multinationals and foreign capital, with all their implications, have made vertical upward mobility difficult.

5.   Neither is upward mobility, rising income or independence a necessary consequence of their diligence.

6.   The legal profession served as a means of upward social mobility for Burghers, Sinhalese and Tamils.

7.   American society, Whyte argued, placed great emphasis on upward social mobility.

8.   Upward mobility has been a real possibility for a large number of people.