Sentence examples for could be downgraded from inspiring English sources
Hammond warned that Britain's credit-worthiness could be downgraded.
So a report of self-harm that should be critical could be downgraded to major.
This would create a significant risk that Britain could be downgraded, it said.
The current occupant, the raccoon, could be downgraded to Official State Varmint.
He warns that Britain's credit-worthiness could be downgraded, pushing the economy into crisis.
He also dismissed suggestions that Prince Andrew's role could be downgraded following the furore over his other business connections.
"Yes, there's every chance there could be downgrades, but investors will be very unfriendly to the euro zone in general if there is no improvement this week in terms of a plan".
With the country's financial aid package still to be agreed, S&P cautioned investors that Cyprus could soon be downgraded from CCC+ (just three notches above default).
Shares in Toyota have lost 15% of their value since the drama first began and Fitch Ratings put the company's A+ credit rating on "watch negative", meaning it could soon be downgraded.
Once Downing Street had embarked on its strategy of attacking the BBC, the key players knew precisely what to do: Andrew Gilligan's reporting had to be undermined; once Dr Kelly's name was revealed as the likely source, he could first be downgraded as a "middle ranking official" and then be denigrated as a "Walter Mitty".
The claims of commonsense could then be downgraded to being strictly false but still explicable given the truth of the paraphrase, or as true but only according to the 'tacit fiction' of decomposition, which is the 'fiction' that the world decomposes into proper parts.
