Sentence examples for down participation from inspiring English sources

Faculty backlash against online courses has spread in recent weeks, as the Amherst College faculty voted against joining edX, and the Duke faculty voted down participation in Semester Online, offered by a consortium of universities.

The fact that stocks can be bought and sold through on-line brokers brings down participation and information costs.

A very small number (about 20) of eligible and sampled individuals turned down participation.

Of course, people turn down participation in research studies for other reasons [ 8].

Two popular reasons for turning down participation were concerns about emotional burdens on children and lack of staff time to administer and to fill in questionnaires.

"Compulsory helmet laws drive down cycling participation numbers and do not encourage principles of mutual respect between all road users".

"The question is how schools are going to comply, and inevitably it will lead to a shrinking down of participation numbers on the men's side".

Since the Australian Bureau of Statistics doesn't break down sporting participation by location, we can't tell the comparative popularity of different sports in urban and regional areas.

The United States Postal Service abruptly shut down public participation in all the Operation Santa programs — in New York and other major cities across the country — at 1 p.m. Wednesday, without offering post offices or letter-seeking citizens any understanding of why.

Another difference is that a year ago, many marketers that bought Super Bowl spots were playing down their participation, fearing that the sour national mood made the usual hoopla seem inappropriate.

The American officials who have dominated the trial proceedings behind the scenes have been drawing down their participation, and on Tuesday the Iraqis had more control than before over logistic and administrative issues — bearing responsibility, for example, for bringing witnesses to the court.