Sentence examples for downgraded status from inspiring English sources

That BBC4 has a channel editor rather than controller is a reflection of its downgraded status as a result of recent cuts, although its future appears to be secure, unlike sister channel BBC3, due to go online only next year.

The battered but resilient Robshaw not only overcame the public doubts of his new coach, Eddie Jones, who had dismissed his credentials as an international openside flanker, but he embraced a new position on the opposite side of the scrum and accepted his downgraded status when Dylan Hartley was chosen to lead the team.

The fear of cultural deprivation seems to cut both ways, both for those who think that the proposed raised standards of the literature exam will render it an elite subject, and for those who feel its downgraded status reflects the prejudice that the arts are not as central to life as more 'useful' subjects.

The Panthers downgraded the status of quarterback Vinny Testaverde to questionable after he had back stiffness.

As a result, Standard & Poors downgraded the status of Southern California Edison and Edison International, as well as Pacific Gas and Electric Company and its parent, PG&E Corporation.

In deciding to become a farmer — not an idle dweller but the owner of a productive, medium-sized fazenda — he had downgraded the status of literature.

I've gone from initial skepticism about his chances to defending him as a "top-tier" candidate while some other analysts downgraded his status.

And while trade was a major subject, Mr. Bush has yet to appoint a trade representative, and Bush aides have hinted that the job may be downgraded in status.

Spain's situation worsened last week when Standard & Poor's, one of the three big credit rating agencies, slightly downgraded its status after Portugal was also relegated and Greek debt was designated junk.

Social news site Reddit has downgraded the status of its "technology" section after a censorship row.

The reforms, in 2013, led to a near total ban on parcels; restrictions on the use of in-cell televisions; and tougher rules for inmates who'd been downgraded in status from "enhanced" to "basic".