Sentence examples for down to figures from inspiring English sources

This basic pattern — borrowing and transforming a commodity meant for other purposes — comes down to figures on the margins, doing something the broader culture sees as sartorially "wrong".

A succession of data releases has induced a race to the bottom as other forecasters revise their estimates down to figures closer to ours.

"We haven't sat down to figure out how to protect consumers," said Margot Saunders of the National Consumer Law Center.

For the dealmakers, it all comes down to figuring out how much these naifs, collectively, are worth.

Through it all, officials on both sides talked hesitantly about the possibility of sitting down to figure out how to make a cease-fire work.

She could not look back — it would have been a sign of weakness — and she was not about to slow down to figure out whose feet they were.

The Seventy-ninth Street mall received "Sitter with Head in Hands," which looks like a big bubble man who sat down to figure out what to do next.

Scroll down to Figure 7 for a quick, depressing portrait of just how far behind U.S. investments in high-speed rail lag.

I was a financial adviser, and I never sat down to figure out what it would take to make this work.

When Pearce sat down to figure out the best way to resolve the situation, she concluded she was best off contacting the boys' mothers directly, "especially as most of them write to me through their personal Facebook pages.

No one ever sat down to figure out exactly how to handle the record-keeping, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff later said that a chaotic system of covert reporting "just grew up".