Sentence examples for down serious from inspiring English sources

The police need to spend more time tracking down serious crime and less on minor offenses.

Mr. Obama oversold how much they have improved and played down serious weaknesses.

The empire was not enlarged under this unwarlike emperor, but it was called upon to put down serious disorders.

But once the cheering and the chanting had died down, serious questions remained.The political calculations behind Mr McCain's choice hardly look robust.

"An intelligent, caring principal who'd never buy a car without looking at Consumer Reports, when they plunk down serious money to buy a curriculum, they don't even look at the evidence".

Last year the figure hit 26; this year, only half-complete, 19 have died.This changing profile might explain why, overall, injuries are up and murder is down: serious violence is becoming an amateur pursuit.

Chin Han as Sun Feng Han spoke of his character's development: "He starts off as a button-down, serious... government official, and then as the movie progresses... you find out a different side of him and his secret agenda".

At one point, I climbed to the top of an overpass and looked down — not serious, but serious enough.

Holley was cut down by serious injury at 24.

Signs are this week that the party may have got down to serious dealing.

Since the first meeting, she has "set aside" her idling ways & got down to serious work".