Sentence examples for grade status from inspiring English sources

Its debt has recently been accorded investment grade status.

Such levels are normally reserved for speculative-grade debt, below the investment grade status Lucent still retains.

The food grade status of both soy peptides and calcium phosphate might extend their applications for food industry.

To gain Conservation Grade status, farmers must plant a range of wildlife habitats in return for a contracted premium price for their crop.

If the Euro does not survive, then no Euro area country can hope to maintain an AAA rating for its debt; indeed the issue becomes if any Euro area economy could maintain investment grade status.

Bloomberg News reported on Nov. 9 that senior officials at two investment banks had called Moody's that day after learning that the rating agency was planning to lower its assessment of Enron bonds to junk, or below-investment grade, status.

"Russia could lose its investment-grade status.

But its bonds are now rated BB+ by Standard & Poor's, one notch below investment-grade status.

Mexico's government debt began to achieve investment-grade status in 2000 with dramatic effects.

It has restored the cherished "investment-grade" status that Indonesia's government lost during the Asian financial crisis.

The requests from the banks are rare for a company with investment-grade status and with the recent eminence of Lucent.