Sentence examples for down a considerable from inspiring English sources

The Hungarians invaded Moravia, and, by tying down a considerable portion of the Bohemian army, they facilitated rebel successes in other parts of the kingdom.

On the other hand, the encirclement of the 6th Army and the operations to destroy it tied down a considerable number of Soviet troops, which affected Soviet operations on other sectors.

And I had paid down a considerable part of the mortgage with my last year's partner's bonus.

Accordingly, Matthew Warchus, the director, honours the quality of gamesmanship implicit in the very title "Endgame", turning Sir Michael Gambon's Hamm and Lee Evans's Clov into vaudevilleans who, separately and together, must face down a considerable void.The two men do so with gallantry and grace, a sly wit and very real wisdom.

While the company’s overall profits were down a considerable 19% in Q3, online grew 24%—no mean feat while a number of newspaper companies have started to post declines in that area.

More important, most analysts predict the Fed will reiterate its past pledge to keep rates down for "a considerable period".

Spencer said the texts had no bearing on the central issue of "whether the defendants deliberately held Mr Mubenga forward, head down, for a considerable period and whether [they] deliberately ignored his repeated protests that he could not breathe".

The Fed on Tuesday held overnight borrowing costs at 1percentthethe lowest level since 1958, and said low inflation and plenty of economic slack meant rates could stay down for "a considerable period".

Extreme foreshortening, shooting on the diagonal, straight down from a considerable height or straight up from the ground all these are known to this day as "Rodchenko angles".His influence on generations of photographers began almost at once, as can be seen in the work of Andre Kertesz, who was then living in Paris, and, not long after, in that of Margaret Bourke-White, in New York.

The minutes of the August Fed meeting stated that the directors were committed to holding short rates down for a "considerable period".

You'd imagine that if, say, profits were down by a considerable amount, the firm would take action to immediately rectify the problem.