Sentence examples for began down from from inspiring English sources

As Dmitry Gorenberg with Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies wrote Ukraine's army had only 6,000 combat-ready troops when the Donbas trouble began (down from an army of 800,000 in 1992 when I first came to Ukraine).

Both lived in the time of the Gracchi and both wrote histories of Rome from the beginning down to their own day.

Spectators, who began queuing in the rain nearly four hours before the court began, looked down from a narrow gallery, its rail punctuated with spikes.

Blood began seeping down from the bodies above, soaking his jeans.

The game clock began spinning down from an eerie 4.7 seconds.

Colonel West said he fired a warning shot in the air and began counting down from five.

On Tuesday, when it became clear that Trump did not have enough support in Congress for the $5 billion, the White House began backing down from the ultimatum.

As army engineers rigged a small explosive to blow open the front door, Palestinian gunfire began raining down from the roof of the building.

Gradually the land was infiltrated by groups of Gothic Germans, until finally in the 3rd and 4th centuries ce a new wave of Germans, the Salic Franks, began pressing down from the northeast.

In what is variously called business intelligence, data warehousing or data-driven decision making, accountability-minded administrators are funneling the reams of information they collect each year into a centralized computer bank, a seemingly obvious idea that only recently began trickling down from private industry into schools.

Among its findings were: 29% of people now prefer coalition to single party government, the lowest since the survey began, and down from 45% before the current coalition was formed.