Sentence examples for a downgrading from inspiring English sources

But the Fitch statement said that a downgrading for Altria did not necessarily mean a downgrading for the tobacco industry as a whole and, therefore, the tobacco bonds.

For instance, a downgrading of A.I.G.'s own creditworthiness could prompt a big collateral call.

A downgrading could prove costly as investors demand higher returns to compensate for increased risk.

The alternative would have been to risk a downgrading by rating agencies.

This represents a downgrading of the original neocon vision of setting up a democratic state.

Those steps do not amount to a downgrading of the state's bonds.

Nor is it true that these show a downgrading of global warming.

The corollary of this allegedly Asian value system was a downgrading of the individual and of human rights.

If so, sortition did not necessarily entail a downgrading of the importance of the office of archon.

I would not be surprised if some time shortly thereafter there would be a downgrading of our financial rating.

Their brinkmanship over the debt ceiling was highly irresponsible, and led as feared to a downgrading of America's credit rating.