Sentence examples for before downgrading from inspiring English sources

But he would use such a device differently than he did before downgrading his cellphone.

The ONS repeatedly referred to the "government target" between August 2013 and 2014 before downgrading it following Liberal Democrat protests.

Before downgrading U.S. debt, S.& P. sent a preliminary draft of its press release to the U.S. Treasury.

He pointed to Turkey, which had waited for a U.N. report on the killing, by Israeli forces, of Turkish activists on a ship that was trying to break the blockade of Gaza, before downgrading diplomatic relations.

"We have been wrong as G.E. underperformance has continued," said C. Stephen Tusa, a J. P. Morgan Securities analyst who'd had a buy recommendation on the company for three years before downgrading it to neutral last Monday.

The JTWC only classified Trina as a tropical storm for 12 hours before downgrading the system and issuing their final advisory early on December 1.

Morgan accused policymakers in the decade before 2010 of downgrading "gold-standard qualifications" and of creating softer alternatives aimed at children from poorer families.

Last month, Standard & Poor's downgraded Ford Motor's credit rating to BBB-, whish is one notch above a junk rating; the month before, it had downgraded DaimlerChrysler to BBB, citing Chrysler's lagging performance.

It then moved through the heart of Cajun country before being downgraded to a tropical storm.

But it wasn't long before Apple downgraded its hopes and started referring to Apple TV as a hobby.

Hurricane Michael made landfall in Florida, thrashed the state and moved north before being downgraded to a tropical storm.