Sentence examples for downgrade the value from inspiring English sources

William Daly, the chief legal officer of the league, said today that teams might downgrade the value of top collegians because of the risk involved in choosing them.

In fact, flooding the market with artificial Twuffie does little more than slightly downgrade the value of 100,000 F's.

"This afternoon," she said, "I am not suggesting that any of you — graduates, students, alumnae or friends — cast aside your own opinions or downgrade the value of your perspectives on life.

As oil prices hit a 12-year low on Wednesday, Shell downgraded the value of its North Sea reserves and said it would take other one-off losses which could be as high as $7bn for the full financial year.

Sainsbury's has slumped into the red after taking a one-off charge of £628m to pull out of building 40 new supermarkets and downgrading the value of 40 underperforming stores, just a year after writing off plans for 15 new supermarkets at a cost of £92m.

The controversy over PSA testing reflects some of the same concerns about government oversight of medical practice that arose in 2009 when the same task force (but with different members) downgraded the value of mammography as a way of preventing death from breast cancer.

To effect such an outcome through justice, Kittay believes, requires maintaining a social order that secures care for dependents as a main purpose of formulating fundamental principles of justice and a theoretical basis that downgrades the value of independence, at least for disabled people (Kittay 2011).

And who are downgrading the value of creativity, insight and strategy by overselling the capabilities of what are essentially just tools.

In this last study, childless women who had passed the deadline for having a child were found to engage much more in compensatory secondary control strategies like downgrading the value of children and upgrading the importance of alternative developmental goals than women with children who had passed the deadline or childless women who had not yet reached the deadline.

This resistance (defined by Keeley et al., 1995 as any student behavior that hinders their development into critical thinkers) was also expressed in students spending on average 50% less time studying than was recommended by the instructor, insistence on using mainly cognitively passive study strategies, and downgrading the value of learning on all learning levels when struggling on exams.

Many leading economists and bankers now say that major banks in Europe need hefty infusions of capital to weather the inevitable downgrading of the value of European sovereign debt they have on their books.