Sentence examples for be a downgrading of from inspiring English sources

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

Australia is yet to decide whether to send a minister to the meeting next month which campaigners fear would be a downgrading of the issue.

Tugendhat said it was important to establish the facts, but that if Riyadh had murdered Khashoggi or sanctioned his killing there should be a downgrading of diplomatic relations and a boycott by UK ministers.

The one event that could still make Treasuries attractive, Mr. Brown said, would be a downgrade of France by the rating agencies.

Among those events would be a downgrade of Williams's credit rating to below investment grade coupled with a drop in Williams's stock price to $30.22 or lower for 10 consecutive trading days.

It may be a downgrade of sorts from Chetiyawardana's win last year, when Dandelyan was named "World's Best Cocktail Bar" but it's rather remarkable that the man has been consistently taking home prizes for years.

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

"Labour is in favour of sustainable development, but what the Tory-led government are offering is a downgrading of the rules which protect our natural environment," he said.

"There's certainly been a downgrading of ideological purity," Niall Brennan, a special agent on the joint terrorism task force in the New York office of the F.B.I., told me on the morning that Zarqawi's death was announced.

Another drag on the market yesterday was a downgrading of Wal-Mart and other retail shares by Goldman , Sachs which said that the national shopping spree was winding down as retailers faced cost pressures.

While there is rejoicing that a 30-year Apple veteran was given that additional responsibility, I think it is a downgrading of the position and a realization that a slowdown of iPhone sales suggests growing customer mistrust.