Sentence examples for down earned from inspiring English sources

Their inflexible conclusion that wages would always be driven down earned the subsistence theory the name "iron law of wages".

The debut single "Lay It Down" earned them a No. 57 spot on Australia's Triple J's 2011 Hottest 100 poll.

A year later, her first solo album, "Everybody Down," earned her a Mercury Prize nomination in Britain.

Although Robertson's action was simply the springboard for the investigation, his refusal to back down earned him enemies among the Hollywood elite.

The news that the pontiff would step down earned an immediate outpouring of tributes matched only by speculation about his health, about his future and that of a church in transition.

Centre Remi Lamerat's late touch down earned Castres a losing bonus point.

But he soon buckled down, earning an M.B.A. and doctorate in business from Stanford University.

But Gerardo Torrado cynically hauled him down, earning a yellow card, and each team probably left happy with the tie.

In 2005 he graduated from the Empire Test Pilots' School, Boscombe Down, earning the Westland Trophy for best rotary-wing pilot student.

Just as he's arriving on the edge of the box, Strinic nashes over from left-back and does enough to bring him down, earning a booking.

He chased the player 20 yards and pulled him down, earning a yellow card from the referee, whom he chewed out at length.