Though it was recently downgraded, conditions in South Sudan have actually continued to deteriorate, and we are still on the brink of the worst humanitarian catastrophe of our time.
Days before his death, his condition was downgraded from serious condition to critical but stable condition.
There was also pressure for a review of MPs' pensions – by some distance the most generous in the entire public sector — to be fast-tracked, to see off accusations that parliament would enforce downgraded pension conditions on government employees while enjoying "gold-plated" deals of their own.
Standard & Poor's said that the pristine rating of Britain's sovereign debt might be downgraded if economic conditions deteriorated further and the British debt load continued to grow.
At the centre of the dispute between unions and Southern is the move to driver-only operation of trains, which unions say is a safety issue, as well as potentially seeing many rail jobs lost or conditions downgraded in the future.
Vado Diomande, the New York City musician and drummer who contracted inhalation anthrax last month from making drums with untreated animal skins, was upgraded from serious to fair condition yesterday, the first change since Feb. 24, when his condition was downgraded from stable to serious.
They should be downgraded from a legal condition to an "advisory feature".
The sunbather's condition was downgraded from serious to critical late Friday.
Their condition kept getting downgraded as yesterday's game went on.
The patient's condition had been downgraded from critical to fair.
