Sentence examples for affairs down from inspiring English sources
"There are 17 people in DEFRA covering rural affairs, down from over 50 when the department was established," he says.How much harm that neglect has done is harder to gauge.
Yet beneath the bitterness coloring national affairs — down at the level of neighborhood, family, coffee shop, tavern — a tenuous belief in the collective good remains, perhaps moderating national dismay.
Considering just how many ways baseball allows teams to score, that's quite an indictment on the state of affairs down in Tampa.
On the evidence of his recent show, John Galliano is trying to change this state of affairs: down the catwalk trooped the models in something akin to properly boned female corsets.
Fixtures between Manchester United and Arsenal have proved highly competitive affairs down the years, with both teams often competing for the Premier League title.
While he waited for a replacement to be announced, Shirley took depositions, gathered evidence to support his version of affairs, and worked to close his financial affairs down.
In order to work out the complexities around Blairmore's tax affairs, Downing Street had to bring in a series of advisers.
Since she won a perfectly democratic election in December 2012, she returned to the Blue House today as the country's president.Her inauguration ceremony was an upbeat, twenty-first century affair, down to the appearance of Psy, who belted out his ubiquitous mega-hit, "Gangnam Style".
For all the talk of Hollywood remaking itself, Sunday's show was a backward-looking and deeply conservative affair, down to its very interstices.
Tempestuous love affairs cool down.
Momentous decisions on national affairs handed down by the Supreme Court.
