Sentence examples for downgraded through from inspiring English sources

He added that it was "far more common for charges associated with police arrests to be downgraded through plea bargaining, if not abandoned outright through declined prosecutions".

I think Michael Gove is absolutely right to reduce the competition between the exam boards for English, maths and science, which have undoubtedly been downgraded through competition.

Initially staff managed to make the arrangement work through employing informal channels of communication, but as the resources available for HPAU support declined, the unit's authority was undermined and its level within the bureaucratic hierarchy downgraded through organizational reforms.

By the time London closed, Wall Street was about 125 points lower, with investors ignoring better than expected US confidence figures as the news of the S&P downgrades filtered through.

But in last year's market maelstrom, credit ratings of two of the big insurers, Ambac and MBIA, were downgraded, sending a chill through the market.

"if the deal goes through, they would definitely be downgraded to junk status".

Our summer travel got downgraded from a road trip through Spain to a 15-minute ferry ride to the coastal Maine island of Chebeague, where I'm writing this.

A typhoon that cut a swath of destruction in a weeklong sweep through East Asia was downgraded to a tropical depression as it crossed into Laos after killing at least 71 people.

He applied for a post as high commissioner in Namibia, but the post was downgraded and the application fell through.

The Open kicked off shortly after Irene, by then downgraded to a tropical storm, blew through New York City, causing minimal damage to the grounds and virtually no scheduling delays.

After reaching its peak, Conson gradually weakened, passing through Okinawa before being downgraded to a tropical storm the next day.